Steamboat Springs —
Public tours at Yampa Valley Regional Airport in Hayden have been full
each month they’ve been offered since starting in September, according
to airport manager Dave Ruppel.
The tours typically are limited
to 12 people because of the mandated ratio of visitors to airport
employees, and only December was without a tour, which was because of
scheduling logistics, Ruppel said.
The slate of airport tours for
the start of 2014 has been announced, and those who make the trip to
Hayden during winter will get to see the facility in the full swing of
its peak season.
Tours are scheduled for the following
Wednesdays: 3 to 5 p.m. Jan. 15, 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 12, 1 to 3 p.m.
March 19, 3 to 5 p.m. April 16 and 10 a.m. to noon May 14.
The tours are part of the airport’s ongoing master plan process.
The intent is “to give people an opportunity to see what’s going on behind the curtain, so to speak,” Ruppel said.
Members
of the public who participate in a tour get to see behind the scenes in
the Transportation Security Administration area, go out on the ramp and
see how airlines handle baggage and tour snow removal and rescue and
firefighting sections of the airport, among other things.
“They’ll actually see a lot of that stuff in operation,” Ruppel said about the tours.
Participants
also get to hear a little about the master plan process and what will
be included in the final report. The airport’s runway resurfacing
project also is a topic during the tours.
During the first part
of 2014, Yampa Valley Regional Airport also is slated to hold a few
other meetings as part of the master plan process.
A Planning
Advisory Committee meeting, a local community organizations stakeholder
meeting and an open house public meeting are listed on the airport’s
master plan timeline.
Those meetings have yet to be scheduled.
Planning Advisory Committee meetings started in 2013, Ruppel said, and occur when needed to review progress on the master plan.
The open house public meeting will be publicized ahead of whenever it’s scheduled, Ruppel said.
“It’s another opportunity to really let the public have access to the process,” he said.
The
meeting would involve a presentation, and members of the public would
then be allowed to ask questions about the presentation and the master
plan.
“The tour doesn't necessarily focus on all those specifics,” Ruppel said.
The
local community organizations stakeholder meeting would be similar in
content to the open house, he said, but it’s designed to reach out to
different groups of people.
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