And commissioner mcdonnell and just to note both commissioners commissioner levitan and he commissioner harrison has excused 9 and 10 will be removed from calendar item 9 is the memorandum of understanding approval and item 10 the ports insight square approval both will be coming back in september a few reminders please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, during the meanwhile meeting please take conversations outside and also each person commissioner has 3 minutes. 3 minutes. To comment on each item and on about general Public Comment and when you make Public Comment please comment to the commission in order to allowing allow equal time neither the commission more staff will comment during general Public Comment but the staff may answer questions when did Public Comment is done on item 2 the president s report. Briefly i know well hear more about this from staff i want to congratulate all with outlands a huge success and give me the normal kinds of challenges traffic, etc
Commissioner president buell commissioner Vice President low commissioner bonilla and commissioner mcdonnell and just to note both commissioners commissioner levitan and he commissioner harrison has excused 9 and 10 will be removed from calendar item 9 is the memorandum of understanding approval and item 10 the ports insight square approval both will be coming back in september a few reminders please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, during the meanwhile meeting please take conversations outside and also each person commissioner has 3 minutes. 3 minutes. To commt on each item and on about general Public Comment and when you make Public Comment please comment to the commission in order to allowing allow equal time neither the commission more staff will comment during general Public Comment but the staff may answer questions when did Public Comment is done on item 2 the president s report. Briefly i know well hear more about this from staff i want to congratulate all with
Will be coming back in september a few reminders please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, during the meanwhile meeting please take conversations outside and also each person commissioner has 3 minutes. 3 minutes. To comment on each item and on about general Public Comment and when you make Public Comment please comment to the commission in order to allowing allow equal time neither the commission more staff will comment during general Public Comment but the staff may answer questions when did Public Comment is done on item 2 the president s report. Briefly i know well hear more about this from staff i want to congratulate all with outlands a huge success and give me the normal kinds of challenges traffic, etc. He think everybody did an extraordinary job. Monument to make Public Comment under the president s report. Not yet. Okay. You would be the first to comment. I think under general Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed were on item 3 which is the gene
Feel burdened with expensive effort of implementing changes that wont yield direct benefits for many years to come. This situation has led policymakers to question whether the current atc structure is best suited for the task at hand the longstanding difficulties of modernization on one reason to consider reform to the systems reliance on annual transportation appropriations and the vagaries of the political process make longterm planning for system capitalization management of the footprint difficult and probably more costly and the faa will always face challenges attracting and retaining the talent needed to drive major technological change when i must compete with cuttingedge businesses in the private sector. To address the challenges we must consider if theres a better way to deliver atc services for the traveling public and airspace users and im open to considering all ideas. Faa is a great record of safety regulators something that regulators something though continuous air Traff
That is the accounting that the faa has in the current budget. As much as we wish it would the budget picture will not change we will see more and more spending restraint with the impact of sequestration and layoffs with onagain and offagain stock in star funding from continuing resolutions. That is what the faa is confronted with nobody could or would bill the major new Technology Projects with those types of challenges. Here is the headline from last week and though it causes heart ache but commack the faa is not delivered as promised. The first of the modernization that is why change is needed the consensus of the stakeholders was we need to restructure to a Government Corporation for a Nonprofit Organization that has Stable Funding and the ability to control and finance the march to modernization we have now reached the Tipping Point i am not the typical spokesperson to come to the table to suggest that is the case i would weigh in to have the agency do it there will not be Stable