waiting on a corn. We have Alderman waguespack and Alderman
Quinn here. Uh, please be patient. Give us a few minutes.
Thank you.
Good morning, everybody.
Time is now 10:08 a.m.
the meeting of the committee on Aviation is called to
order.
We will now have a roll call to establish a quorum.
Chairman OSHA is present.
Vice chairman Curtis.
Alderman Hopkins.
Alderman. Dow.
Alderman Robinson.
Alderman. Harris present.
Alderman. Lee.
Alderman Quinn.
Alderman Lopez.
Alderman Coleman.
Alderman Rodriguez.
Alderman tabaris.
Alderman Bernett.
Alderman. Ervin.
Alderman, Cardona.
Alderman waguespack.
Alderman mitts.
Alderman spas.
The 10:08.
Alderman. Nugent.
Alderman Napolitano.
ladies and gentlemen, there are 11 members present, we have
a quorum
Now, I'd like to move on.
Rule 59 requests, the following Alderman. Every request to
remote access for today's Committee of Aviation meeting
Alderman. Patel from the Third Ward Alderman. Lamont
Robinson from the Fourth Ward Alderman. Michelle Harris
from the 8th ward. Having a quorum already present. Can I
get a motion to recommend approval of these rule of 59
requests,
Alderman Bernett, so moves.
I'd like to also add Alderman. Nicole Lee
all in favor, say I
Yes.
Mr. Chairman Alderman. I didn't, I didn't hear you call. My
name is, thank you so much. Thanks Alderman. We got you all
in favor. Say I
All opposed.
Depending on the chair of the eyes, have it?
Ladies and gentlemen, this time we will begin the public
comment period out of respect for everybody's time.
Each speaker is limited to 3 minutes.
Our first speaker is Miss, Jessica Jackson.
All right, good morning.
so,
As the patience to Aviation.
I'm really going to just, you know,
let you all deal with that this morning. I'm struggling
with the news that I've just heard about.
Those 4 black women.
That lost their jobs.
The Inspector General positions, 4 black women.
At the same time lost their jobs, this coming from the
Democratic Party.
The party that tells us all about.
The power of black women. The party that says that the
black woman is the backbone of the Democratic Party.
And we sitting here in a very Democratic town.
and have fired 4 black women from Inspector General
positions for
and it's my understanding that the Common Thread is that
they weren't connected to CTU.
That's my understanding.
so apparently, this teaches Union
Ron City Hall.
Because of the connection with Brandon Johnson, which
explains why when Rosa.
Broke the law and the rules with the sanctuary City.
while we couldn't get rid of him, because he's connected to
The teachers union.
so, the teachers union,
Who doesn't know how to raise test scores.
Who's got the educational system in the ground?
Is controlling City Hall.
the teachers union that wants to put,
Aggressive LBGTQ information in curriculums.
Wants to be in charge of City Hall and we got a absolutely
failed.
Mayor.
That's allowing it. Black people we are going to get enough
of voting for people just because they black
Brandon Johnson has messed us up.
He has gotten rid of 4. Black inspected, General women.
And a Hispanic chief of uh uh what Chief of Staff did it
and he's going to replace everybody with Hispanics.
You all have to let him mess up the city.
So I'm going to go take my seat. Think about when I'm going
to hit you with the next 3 minutes, the next meeting
because this is atrocious, this is atrocious.
Thank you. Miss Jackson.
Let the record reflect Alderman. Cardona has joined us.
Our next speaker is Miss, Zoe Lee.
Good morning Alderman. OSHA good morning.
Um,
so, you know, um,
Miss Jessica, I definitely feel the same way she feels. I'm
just going to correct a couple of things. 3 black women
that were part of the intergovernmental Affairs. RG Harding
is a lady that I really was hurt to hear that she, um, was
fired, because she was 1 of the nicest people who, when I
first started, this journey, with fighting the city of
Chicago for knocking down my property, she did whatever she
could to try to get the mayor to sit down with me and the
fact that she's gone, Sydney is gone. Melanie is gone 3,
black women. Um that
Uh were were probably could have definitely made this um
failed Administration A Little Bit Stronger especially when
he phrases how he has the, you know, 40. I just saw him at
the way makers event lying to them. Black men over there
there saying that, you know. Um, he has the most blackest,
uh, Administration and you know that he's the Michael
of Mayors, you know. He's he's absolutely insane but, um,
to hear to then then then that was just Saturday. So then
to come,
And hear this. I will actually, I was Friday. So to actually
come and to to hear that or see it on Twitter is is is
messed up. Um, the Hispanic KKK runs, um,
City Hall uh these Progressive this weird Progressive
agenda. Um that's going to GI, get them. I I don't know if
they think that, we, we're over in Ecuador or Mexico or
wherever they're from, but we're not. This is this is, uh,
the United States of America. This is a city of Chicago.
This most segregated city, um, on the planet. And everybody
knows that. And it's been like this and it's been fine.
They've came and they infiltrated and they messing things
up. Okay? They have this weird agenda that they're trying
to push. That's not going to go anywhere. The CTU is a
criminal organization along with a lot of these, uh, Deputy
you want to fire people, why be Beatrice? Uh, pawns. Deon
is not gone. She's a deputy mayor of immigrants. They're
all over like roaches, so I'm trying to figure out what
they can't even put them anywhere. They're everywhere.
Everywhere you go, you see them but she's not gone.
Katherine, whatever her name is. I got to figure out how to
say that last name, but the devil his chief of staff, she
needs to be gone as well. So since we firing people,
That's what you need to start Rosana Rodriguez, chanchez and
Carlos Rosa Ramirez, and Brian sichol Lopez who's trying to
control housing zoning. Real estate. And our education is
education is crazy. And we have this, this, this, these
black progressives that are part of this DSA who are not
Progressive enough for our communities. So I'm trying to
tell y'all now.
The justice department is coming.
Thank you, Miss Lee.
Our next speaker.
Is Mr. George Blakemore?
We can't beat up on the mayor.
This is a culture of corruption here.
and it goes back, even before Harold, Washington, they have
had Black Faces in high places and uh, why would the hell
Washington even entertain to have a sanctuary City? But
because he didn't have the account, he needed the Hispanic
for terrorists and Garcia boat.
So he was he had no vision.
so this n**** ISM and and Shambo ISM, it's just didn't
happen here in in the city of Chicago. It's, it's a culture
of these people here.
They've been here.
So a, a black people, you your own enemy.
you're turning a a a a want to point out the Hispanic of
the whites of the Asian, you know they never been our
friends and you not even your own damn friend.
I can look around and something very simple and it's very
simple. And I watch a simple thing, I see the black woman,
always a messing with our hair and then I look at what the
white women they don't want that look.
They don't want that Africa. Look because it's not a
standard of beauty to them. My mama, what I nappy hair, she
hated it.
but she liked her King picture and a yellow behind but that
that hair, little simple things. The standard of Beauty in
America to the white woman is, is she's our own standard
and the black woman. I wonder what happened on the
plantation. You know what? What the white mouse to me and a
n****.
And we must Purge ourselves of niggerism and become strong
black men and women.
It's very deep and so I say you don't like your old mama. I
love my auntie belly mama. She just hated her. Nothing.
Hell
She like the little King, a, a nose, and a little thin lift
and a yellow behind host. But that hair. She hated it.
Because she didn't see her beauty.
of power of of she was just great, but she was brought up
with that anti belly of Plantation and it passed on from 1
generation to the another generation and the day, you see
the young people of the blue black kids with the the mama
just sticking some little facts and stuff and half hair
down. They they booty. It's it's that black people. Mine
was messed up from slavery and they fell in love with the
Enemy.
They thank you Mr. Blakemore
Our fourth and final speaker is Miss Teresa Hughes.
Let the record reflect that Alderman, Robinson and
Alderman. Viegas have joined the quorum.
Go right ahead, Miss Hughes. Okay, thank you sir. Good
morning everybody. I am Teresa Hughes and I am here to
speak in regards to Aviation committee and um black
contracts.
Contractors.
and contracts that go out that, um,
Are not very reflective of the black.
Contracting community.
On these Aviation projects. So I would just like to go on
the record to say that I will be watching very closely.
What's going on in aviation especially when it comes to new
projects coming out. And uh, this particular company boa,
that is getting all the contracts from what I understand
that are in aviation, because of some kind of tie-in with
the the powers that be
and I just want to go on record that I am going to be
watching because I am an advocate for the contractors that
are
That have come to me and have been their contracts have been
been canceled or terminated. So I just want to go on a
record with that so you can take that back to your girl.
Me Miss T.
thank you, Miss Hughes
This concludes the public comment, period.
items before the committee item number 1 is the approval of
the July 9th 2024, rule, 45 report for the committee on.
Aviation, if there are no questions. Can I get a motion
recommend approval of the report?
Alderman, viegas so moves.
all in favor, say I
all opposed.
Any opinion of the chair of the eyes have it?
Item number 2, an ordinance 202400001104. Third amendment
to phase 1 lease, Second Amendment to phase 2 lease. And
First Amendment to phase 3 lease with arrows Chicago or
Chicago facility operations at Chicago O'Hare International
Airport.
Miss Amber Ritter managing. Deputy Commissioner from the
Department of Aviation is here with us this morning to
explain the ordinance and to answer any questions committee
members may have
Redhead Amber.
So much chairman OSHA and thank you council members uh for
your time this morning. Uh we want to uh walk you through
through this ordinance. Uh, but first, I'd like to
introduce 1 of my colleagues who's here in the stand with
me? Robert Rodriguez also a managing, Deputy Commissioner,
uh, at the department of Aviation. Um,
Excuse me here. So the first of the 2 ordinances that we're
discussing today is Chairman, Noah mentioned is uh the
amendments to the Northeast cargo leases. I want to talk,
uh, really briefly first about the importance of our cargo
operations uh, at O'Hare to the region to the city uh and
and to our economies, as a whole. Um, I think it's it's a,
it's a good opportunity to kind of explain a little bit
about where we are with cargo and why. This is why O'Hare
is such an important cargo Hub, uh, which is Germaine to
this ordinance that we're introducing today. So O'Hare
process is about 1.9 million metric, tons of Freight in
2023. Uh, that was, uh, good enough to have a bit ranked
number 6, in the United States, for tonnage and number 13
in the world. So we are a major cargo Port. More
importantly, even than the tonnage in our, in our
perspective, frankly is the cargo value. We are ranked
number 1 in the country for cargo value coming in and out
of our hair. Meaning that the goods that were uh, receiving
and shipping
Out through our cargo facilities, our high-end products, a
lot of electronics, a lot of pharmaceuticals, a lot of
vehicles, um, and this kind of thing. So those those things
together mean that we're really, you know, at the top of
the, of the tier of, um, cargo airports. And in fact, we're
often even number 1 in the country of all ports for value.
And that includes all the shipping ports, like the port of
LA and other ports that bring in uh, boats across the seas.
seas. Um, we also, uh, you know, have a, we have, this is
you know, made possible through our very comprehensive
cargo program. We have over 2 million square feet of
airside cargo buildings and another 2 million square feet
of landside cargo buildings. Um we have seen the need for
our cargo uh you know areas to expand and to continue
developing over the decades. Obviously when we plan
something uh for cargo development, it's many decades in
the works and so the fruit of the works that have been done
over the past 20, 30 years are really coming into fruition
now. So we're we're very happy.
With that we currently have about 40 jumbo freighter
parking positions, any any 1 time at O'Hare. Um, we can
handle the largest be 7478, F aircraft and importantly, uh,
these cargo jobs support about 5,000 jobs every day at
O'Hare of people that work in our cargo facilities. And
then in addition to that, another 10,000 cargo jobs within
a mile of the airport. So it's it's a, you know, an
industry that not only impacts the airport itself, but
really the entire region. So we're very
Proud of our cargo facilities. What we're here today to talk
about, is a few lease amendments to clean up, um, a few
lease ends loose ends on our Northeast cargo facility,
leases, the tenant, um, for that, those facilities is an
entity tone is real-term previously known as aeroterm. Um,
the history of this and this is what you're seeing on the
screen here. This is on the very Northeast quadrant of the
Airfield. Um, it used to be a, a military base. Uh, now in
the, in the, in 2008, we put out a an RFP to develop that
area into a into a cargo facility. And the idea would be
that it was in 3 phases phases 1, 2 and 3, and in addition,
addition, to that of fuel farm. So, the, uh, the RFP was
put out, uh, the winning, uh, bidder. Uh, proposer was an
entity. As I mentioned named realterm at the time, was
called aeroterm just had a name change. Um, and so we
error term on those uh on the development and on those
leases back you know 15 years ago uh in 2008 and
thereabouts. Um Phase 1 is what you can see.
On the the the on your screen. That's the lower of the 2
blue uh rectangles. Um, that opened in 2016. Um, that's the
the largest of the phases. Um, it's 540 thousand square
Um, so that's been running, uh, for almost 10 years now.
Um, Phase 2, just north of that. Also, the blue bar opened
in 2017 240,000 square feet. So we brought those leases to
city council for approval is in. Um I think it was in 2015
or thereabouts and then phase 3, which is the most recent
phase.
Which is depicted in the orange uh, rectangle on the, on the
the bottom left of the screen open, just a year ago, a year
a half ago in 2023. Um, that was a lease that was executed
executed or authorized I should say, by City Council in
2021. Um, it's a beautiful facility, it is now, open for
business, um, with an additional 125,000 square feet. So
all together this northeast uh cargo campus gives us about
900000, square feet of cargo space um, with positions for
Freighters at the same time. So it's it's really a
significant development for O'Hare and it's been running
beautifully. So, again, this is kind of what I just covered
the the dates of all 3 of these phases. Uh, in the leases
now excitingly, as I mentioned, the phase 3 uh facility
opened in May of 2023 and there were a few things to to tie
up. Um but we recently had just last week 2 weeks ago, we
had a ribbon cutting so it was a beautiful building a
beautiful event on August 29th. We had the official phase 3
ribbon cutting although it's been operational for some time
you
Can see we have, um, representative from, from the, um,
from aeroterm, real term, which is the the tenant, uh, Bowa
construction, which is the general contractor that built
the building and I'll get to that in a minute as well. Of
course, as Mayor Johnson commissioner, Ree and others. Um,
I just like this picture down here in the bottom right of
the screen I mentioned there's about 5,000 jobs every day.
Uh, at the cargo facilities, here's the mayor with 1 of
our, uh, employees. Um, they got a chance to go on the
Airfield, which is Fun. The mayor commissioner Ree and uh,
the president of the Aero term.
Um and then we had remarks from folks including Nosa from
Bowa construction, um, who was the prime contractor? Um,
and this of course, is my favorite. I can't not show this,
the the mayor in the cockpit of a of a cargo jet. So a
really fun event and it really caps off this very
successful project that we have in a beautiful new building
um for cargo
So uh 1 I just want to close the loop and also talk a
little bit about the historic significance of this phase 3
facility that we just opened. Um it was the first major
cargo facility in the United States constructed by an
African-American owned prime contractor. So a huge
development entirely by an African-American owned or run
prime contractor, which was Bowa construction and not only
are they African-American, um, you know, and that's
historic in that in that regard, but they're also local of
course, it's a Chicago business. Um, so we're very excited
to have capped off this great project. Uh importantly the
project achieved 55% on wbe participation which breaks down
to 45% mve um, 20% of that. Or 20% of that total is uh,
African-American owned a construction companies and design
companies, 17% hispanic-owned, and 7%, Asian owned. And
then, on top of that, we have 10%, uh, wbe uh, companies,
the goals, of course, like most many city city, uh,
contracts, this um, were 25 and 5 and we, they
Significantly exceeded that at 55 45 and 10. Um so we're
very happy very uh proud of our historic building. It's
gotten a lot of really great press uh for that reason and
also just because it's a great facility. Um so we're we're
happy to have this project done. Um phase 3 as I said is
now completed. So the whole uh, complex is completed. So
way these leases work is um the tenant which is aeroterm.
Real term puts in the capital investment to build out these
cargo facilities and then at the end of the, of the uh term
those the ownership of those buildings and acuter revert to
the city. So to date, they have put in approximately 175
approximately 175 million dollars in buildout of these
beautiful structures and, and all the, um, roadways Etc
around it, um, which will come to to ownership of the city
at the end of the term of the lease. Um, so that's 1 how 1
way among many others. That the city benefits from this
from this facility and then another way from a monetary
standpoint is rental payments, of course, um, the they
every year they pay us, you know,
Rent and that consists of Base rent per square footage plus
a. 3% proceeds rent which is a at the off a percentage of
their gross revenues. Uh, the facility that is
approximately 7 million dollars a year. It'll go up each
year a little bit and might fluctuate based on the
proceeds, rent variables, but for the entire 35 year term
of the lease that it equals about 245 million. So it's a
very lucrative for the airport. Uh, from a revenue
perspective as well as just being so advantageous for the
re
And the and the um, City's economy.
um,
So what we're here today though to talk about is um not as
not as uh exciting as the is the whole cargo universe, but
just some cleanup issues that we need to do with the phase
3 lease to amended in a way to clean up some things that
happen so that we they the least comports with reality of
what actually uh, help happen with the development. And
then I'll get to the phase 1 and 2 in a minute, too. So the
phase 3 lease amendments, I'll start with. So when we, uh,
executed this lease, uh, with real term, the original plan
was that Realtor would construct as a tenant infrastructure
Improvement that they would construct with their
contractors, uh, a taxi Lane November November. That was
necessary to bring the Freighters into the facility, as
well as an airside Service Road and some uh, related
utility work. Um, Once the lease was executed and here we
were in 2021, which of course, height of the pandemic. Lots
of issues at that time with supply chain issues, uh, labor.
Um, you know, getting getting the right folks to do the
work.
and on top of that, you might recall, the concrete strike
that we dealt, with around that time, um, we decided
between us that it would actually be more advantageous for,
uh, for everybody if the city actually did the construction
rather than having, um, real-term do it, and then reimburse
them for it that we would just do it ourselves.
Essentially, that's, that's it in a nutshell. So they, they
had done the design work. We paid them for the design work,
they did. And then we uh, just went in and self-performed
the construction of
Of the taxi Lane and the airside service road. So we simply
need to amend the lease to reflect that reality because the
lease contemplates that they that they'll build it and
we'll pay them back. So that's not what occurred. It worked
out great. It's a beautiful facility and so we just need to
clean that up. The second thing we, uh, would like to amend
is long as we're here doing. It is, you know, when we
execute these leases, we don't know what the commencement
date. The rents rent commencement date is going to be,
because that is, uh, defined as the date of beneficial
occupancy of the facility. Meaning the date that it opens
for business. So obviously, when we sign the lease, it's
like 2 years in the future. At that point, we don't know
what that date is. But now that we do know what that date
was because we've already had it, it was May 1st of 2023 as
long as we're in here. Amending. This lease. We'd just
like, to clean it up and and, uh, enter that that date as
the official rent commencement date. Um, and that would
mean, of course, that it's a 35 year term. So then the
expiration date would then be April 30th of 2058
The third way, uh, we need to go go in and amend this is
there's a section on credits against combined rent and we
need to reflect the availability of some additional rent
credits, uh, for particular improvements. And then last as
we were closing out the uh project um, 1 of the ways that
the city really played a big role with both, um, real-time
the tenant as well as, uh, Bowa Construction in the prime
was just making sure we got all of those subs, paid out and
closed out. Um, a lot of our subs were local, a lot of our
subs are small businesses, they're Subs, I should say, not
ours, but we wanted to make sure that they were paid and
that they were happy and you know, every everything was
Done with the project. And so um, there was some question
about some of the concrete that had been poured for a
employee parking area, landside meaning pre-security um and
a little bit of a debate back and forth as to whether um
there are any issues with the con concrete. What the city
did is what we'd like to do is go in and say, look in order
to get that sub closed out which we did, get the sub closed
out. Um, if there's any problem in the future, with this
concrete, pour, uh, that real term would address that fixed
that concrete and that we would reimburse, the city would
reimburse them. The airport, would reimburse them under a
reimbursable agreement. So that's just that, uh, we don't
expect that to be the case, but just in case, in order to
get that issue closed out, we agreed to that. So those are
the 4 ways that, um, we need to, uh, amend the phase 3
release to bring bring the agreement. The legal agreement
into, um, you know, to comport with, with the way that the
project went. Um relatedly, we also are asking a, a amend
phases, 1 and 2. So those are the 2 older phases and what
we'd like to do here what we're asking for.
Is to make all 3 phases co-terminus. So as I mentioned,
when we put out this RFP back in 2008, the idea was the
project would be in 3 phases, um, and that those phases
would span, you know, 10 or so years, which they did, um,
in order to get them developed. But what that means is
because the
Date. The date. The term runs from is the date of
beneficial. Occupancy of each of each phase. Right now,
what that means is we'll have 3 completely separate, uh,
termination dates. So, um, phase is 1 and 2 currently
terminate around 2047 and phase 3 terminates in 2058 and
that's operationally problematic for the airport. Uh, we'd
like to be able to plan as a whole, this whole development
to either, you know, to expire on, on 1 date certain so
that we can, you know, down the road plan. What we want to
do with the facility next whether it's another tenant to
run it, whether the city takes it back, whether we do
something entirely else but it expiring in phases, um, is,
you know, causes up our operational problems and also on
the other side of the coin allows, the tenant, if they
should. So desire to, you know, leave phases 1 and 2
earlier, but still raise, you know, run phase 3. And that's
just a situation that I think was going to cause, cause a
lot of problems for, you know, the next generation of the
airport. Um, so this would make all 3 co-terminus unable.
April 30th of 2058. So those are the least Amendment, uh,
as you know, uh,
Areas of of men that we're asking uh, Council to approve or
the aviation committee to approve, um terminal, turn it
back to you.
Thank you, Mr.
Uh, questions from committee members Alderman, Hopkins.
Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chairman, thank you for the excellent
presentation. I fully support the expansion of uh cargo
operations at O'Hare. And uh at the appropriate time. I'll
support the uh, lease Amendment. We are missing on page 2
though, Mr. Chairman of the uh, the lease document
It's no, it just, uh, it's not in here. It's at least, it's
not in mine. But anyway, I'm sure there's nothing in there
that would preclude my, uh, support for it. Um, but I do
have 2 questions. Uh,
What is the status of our continued? Expansion of cargo
operations in the context of the O'Hare noise compatibility
commission. We often hear that, you know, cargo operations
are in the overnight hours. And there's complaints about
that some of the cargo aircraft tend to be louder. So, what
is the current status of that? And also, uh, is a, is a
sort of a sub issue to that. Um, the pone airport has
re-entered the chat. You know, here we are once again after
all these years, it's being discussed and it's being
discussed in the context of uh, enhanced cargo operations
that is obviously something that is not in the interest of
the city of Chicago, not in the interest of this
department. So, uh, what is the current status of any
effort to continue? Consolidating cargo operations at
O'Hare and making it the the premier cargo destination for
Air Freight. Regionally, um, you know, competition
notwithstanding if you could just comment on that. Thank
you Alderman. Um, I'll take the the first 1 uh, first about
future cargo development plans and how that could comport
with noise and other.
There are other development issues. So we, you know, we are
always always, I should say in the phases at O'Hare and at
a Midway of planning for the future and when you're talking
about airport planning naturally, it's decades down the
road. Um Deputy Commissioner managing Deputy Commissioner
Rodriguez himself is actually over our Planning Group right
now. So we work with cargo groups work, very closely with
the planning groups. Uh, we do have ideas of of what the
next, uh, reality of, um, of cargo at O'Hare. Could be
expansion areas Could Happen. Um, if you've looked around
O'hare, recently, you've noticed that it would pretty much
pretty much filled up so it but, you know, there are
options and they involve moving other functions. Etc. So
there's sort of a longer term thing. So, to answer that
question about, you know, what, the development plans are.
We are, we are in the midst of of options, but we don't
have anything solid yet. Certainly noise will be a factor
that we are always taking into account. I think it is. Um,
I was, I will say though. I think it's somewhat of a myth
that, you know, so many of the cargo flights happen
overnight.
Certainly some do or that, you know, they're more cargo than
than commercial in the overnight hours. But certainly, you
know, a good chunk of the cargo flights also happen during
during the day, so just for FYI. And then um, you're oh my
gosh, what was your second question? I'm so sorry.
About our, our efforts to, uh, push back on the notion that
a third Regional Airport is necessitated by expanding cargo
operation. Thank you. Well, I mean again, our job at O'Hare
is to make sure that we have the cargo capabilities to meet
to meet the next uh you know, decades and and and Beyond of
of cargo needs. Um, I'm not here to talk about, you know,
about patone today but, um, we're doing what we can to make
sure that we're able to to meet all of our cargo needs at
O'Hare. Okay, thank you, thank you very much.
Thank you Alderman. Hopkins, Alderman Lopez
thank you, chairman and
good day. Good morning, excuse me, members of the
committee. Um, during our previous briefings, I inquired
about the language. With regards to tenant infrastructure,
improvements and construction improvements as it relates to
some of the abatement issues. I never got that information
Alderman Lopez. That's actually on the other ordinance that
we're gonna
The second orders and just for your information. I've got
all all of your questions answered in my presentation for
on that. Okay, just making sure I saw the. I saw the same
words and I'm like, wait a minute. What's so many? Same
words that? Yeah, second building. Okay. But thank you. And
I I do appreciate. Um,
Uh the Department's work on expanding cargo operations. Um,
but I do, I have a question that's related and not related
shockingly?
Um, as it relates to Midway.
And cargo operations there, because not only does O'Hare do
cargo but, so does Midway.
um, and Midway obviously is more of a landlocked issue than
O'Hare is uh because we have so many of our Chicago
residents there. Um, are there any discussions about uh,
expanding any potential cargo operations at Midway, uh, as
well, maybe not to the size, but, you know, I know some of
those facilities are
Decades old um especially I think the only newest 1 was the
1 that's Southwest built on 63rd Street but you still have
older cargo facilities on 505th Street in the old hangers
there. Um so is there any talk or discussion about doing
any kind of similar modernization there to keep midways
cargo operations blooming and growing. Thank you for that
question Alderman. Um so you know the the main limitation
that Midway has for cargo and the reason why O'Hare has
probably 95% of the cargo between the 2 airports is because
of Runway size. Um, naturally. Oh
uh, Midway is Runway restricted, um, as far as the length
because of, as you say landlocked where it's located, we
all know, we call it the, you know, the busiest square mile
in aviation, um, but as a result of the size of the
runways, the length of the runways, um, it really, really
limits the size of the planes, uh, that are able to take
off and land there. And so cargo is, is
Um, you know, not going to be a function at at Midway
that's going to grow in the same way that it's grown at
O'Hare as a result of that. However, of course, there is
still some cargo at at midways. We know. Um, as far as
refreshing any of the cargo, uh, facilities that exist.
There, certainly were always, we are in the midst of
planning, you know, the next few Decades of of midways
planning as well. Um, I'm not specifically sure whether
there's any plan to specifically, you know, amend any of
the existing buildings, but making sure that we have room
for belly belly cargo at Midway. Uh along with any other
cargo that might come in. There is is a priority for sure.
Okay. It just seems like that is always an area, like you
said the busiest square mile but I think that it's also 1.
That's geographically accessible both to highways major
roads, all directions. And it's just I think that having
grown up over there like 2 of my colleagues right next to
me. You know, it just seems like it's always been
underutilized when it comes to that and having seen how
beneficial cargo is to many of our partners there at
Midway.
Um, would do it underneath their their commercial flights.
Um, it just seems like it would be a good opportunity to
ensure that nobody pulls out of Midway. Um, which would be
my biggest concern, especially as talks of that other
potential Southern airport happens.
Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you Alderman Lopez.
Um, let the record reflect Vice chairman Curtis
Alderman, Dao and Alder, Alderman. Towbar have joined the
quorum.
Um, ultimate Rodriguez.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, just piggy backing on the last
line of thought you just um I you know, 5% of cargo in the
city. Uh forgive me between O'Hare and Midway is at Midway
right approximately? Yeah, approximately, I I'd be very
cautious to increase that number at Midway, uh, for a lot
of different reasons. Um, and I'm very interested in happy
that O'Hare is building out its capacity in the way. It is.
Look, we are a logistics Hub. We all know it being number 1
in Cargo in the country is an important designation. Um,
and we need to maintain that. We have increasing
increasing International competition, let alone local
competition. So, being on the Forefront of this, I think is
think is incredibly important. I'm glad that we're
entertaining this today and being Forward. Thinking on this
most important of topics, I do not want to lose market
share, uh, to other cities, nonetheless other countries.
Uh, when it comes to this, because we're competing with
Toronto on this type of stuff, as well, right? And that's
Hop skipping a jump from us. So let's not forget that. Um so
so we need to make sure we have the environment and also
local uh investment to make sure that we maintain that
status. It's incredibly important for jobs. Um, and for our
local economy though, I did have a question regarding um,
I saw the numbers on uh, ownership as far as the
construction was concerned as the labor chair. I'm thinking
about, uh, the workforce and the percentages City, Chicago,
Etc. I should have thought about this earlier. You have
great. Um, um, our chair has great briefings but it just
didn't occur to me to ask, then I thought I'd ask now. If
you don't have those numbers that's fine through the chair
would be okay but I love to see the workforce numbers on
City of Chicago and minority participation as well. I'm
assuming we have access to that we do. So this thank you
the alderman.
Um, of course, uh, required. Uh, we did require the tenant
to, to make sure that their contractors. Um, use their best
efforts for City hiring for local hiring. Um, unlike most
City contracts, because this isn't a, a, a contract where
the city is spending money to build this. In fact, we're
getting money. It's a, it's a lease. So it doesn't, uh,
the, the city ordinance on local hiring doesn't apply but
it was something that we added to their lease to make sure
that they were able to use their best efforts. Um, I do
think I don't have the exact numbers right in front of me,
but I do know that, um, you know, the the efforts that they
made, you know, during the pandemic to, to try to, you
know,
Make sure their local hiring numbers were were as high as
possible um were extensive. Um, I the numbers themselves
may have been a little bit lower than we would have liked
for local hiring specifically. Um, if I'm I what I have
here is a real term, um, representatives from the tenant
and their, uh, consultant actually who Rachel Ivy, who
worked with them on, local hiring and other issues. If you
have a specific question, I can bring them up. That's oh
no, I'm fine with just through the chair. I'd love to see
the numbers. I don't want to, that's not going to impact my
vote here today or anything of that nature. Sorry, we'll
have those folks talk to you Alderman. Uh, great at the
conclusion of the meeting. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um,
you know, I think that's all. That's all I really had. Um
just in the workforce side of things. So thank you, Mr.
Chair. And thank you for the presentation.
Thank you. Thank you Alderman Rodriguez.
If there are no further questions, can I get a motion to
pass ordinance 202400001104 too?
Alderman, Cardona. So moves, all in favor. Say I
all opposed in the opinion of the chair of the eyes have
it, the do pass recommendation of this ordinance will be
reported out at the next city council meeting on Wednesday,
septembar, 18th 2024,
Our third and final item.
Ordinance 2024001 0971.
A lease agreement with the United States, cellular
Corporation and FCA Partners LLC for Office Space.
Once again, managing Deputy Commander commissioner Miss
Amber Ritter is here to explain the ordinance and to answer
any questions committee members may have Amber. Thank you,
chairman. Um, this uh, this second and final ordinance that
we're here today to discuss is a lease uh where CDA would
like to lease s certain office space at an office, building
located at 8240 West, brinmar in the city of Chicago. So
I'll go through that. Um, just I'll get to our uses for it
in the terms of that in a moment, but just understanding
kind of where where it's located. Um, this is this building
is called the US Cellular building because that's the name
of 1 of the major tenants. You might have seen it off the
Kennedy, it is in the city in the 41st Ward it's at 8420
West brinmar. Um depicted in this map as this uh sort of
red circle here. It's about a 5 to 7 minute drive from
there to our office building, um, and to the airport
itself, of course. And so it's very well located. It's also
located
Located. Um, on a, uh, Corridor of commercial spaces that
are in the city for lunch, you know, options for employees.
And importantly, it is on a walking path that the
Cumberland Blue Line stop. So it will enable the folks that
will be working there to take Public public transportation.
The Blue Line directly to their office building, um, which
is a huge, uh, a huge, uh, Advantage. I think for those
folks, and, um, we'll really encourage people to stop, uh,
needing to drive all the way out to the airport every day
on the Kennedy. Um, so that's where it's located and, uh,
let me tell you a little bit about why, you know why we
need it. So as we are, um, you know, we've talked at length
in, in, in this forum and others about our tap program
terminal area plan, for all the expansion that we're
undertaking currently at O'Hare, um, now that we've got
that sort of sorted out in the phasing of it has is more
certain. Um, we're we're in the position now where we're
ramping up with contractors with staff with Consultants,
um, all kinds of different construction projects that will
be working through currently the way it works at O'Hare is
that most of our CDA employees as well as most of our
contractors who need to be on site. Even the construction
companies for their, like, office positions are in our
Aviation Administration building, which is the office
building. Many of you have probably had a chance to come up
and take a tour and you've you've had a, a meeting in in
our building. Uh, 80. Um, 10510. West tzumi. That's what we
call the 8.
Aviation building, it's very cramped. It's actually the
oldest my understanding is it's the oldest uh, still in use
building on the, on the airport property was built in the
40s. Um, as part of the, the military installation, I don't
think it was ever expected to last, as long as it has. It's
a cramped, uh, building. We don't have a lot of space, and
we are needing to grow. But importantly, it's not just
about the number of employees. It's also about the function
because, um, as we go into our, our next phases of design
and construction on the tap program, we're going to be
putting on a lot of procurements, uh, for contractors
Consultants Etc. And right now, a lot of those same
entities who might be bidding on future opportunities are
sitting right next to each other. Their files are you know
right near each other. Um we would like to be able to have
the ability to ensure Integrity by um you know having the
right facilities to kind of while people off if we need to
from you know, different contractors. Um and consultants
make sure that folks aren't, you know, don't get
accidentally understanding some information about an
upcoming bid that you know, they might want to
A bid on, so we need the space to be able to do that. So
really protecting the entirety of our upcoming projects and
the decades that we'll be, uh, in, in the midst of
construction, um, is, is crucial to us. So, what we did is
we took a look at the market around O'hare, uh, as to where
we could get sort of an auxiliary office building. Um, we,
we are in a really good position because it is a renter's
market right now. Uh, for commercial, uh, property around
O'hare, um, the rates that we're getting and we'll talk
more about this in a second about 20 to,
30% below historic Market rates. Um, it's really a good
position for us to be in. So we did an extensive, uh,
investigation. We looked at many different buildings that
were suitable and we were able to negotiate, you know,
between, you know, off of them, essentially to get a really
great deal.
So the building that we um, finalized is, as I said, at
8240, West brenmar here is a Google Maps kind of photograph
photograph of it. It looks like it's leaning. I promise it
isn't, that's just the perspective of the, the Google Maps.
Um, but it is as I said, right off the Kennedy right off
the Cumberland Blue Line. Stop, we'd be renting 5. Uh,
floors. The fifth through the 9th floor. It's approximately
its 900 and I'm sorry, 99421 square feet. So approximately
100,000 square feet. It includes, uh, at no extra cost, 350
parking spaces. Um, the 1 of the great things about this is
it is totally fully furnished. So, um, the tenant the main
tenant in the building, which is US Cellular, rented, the
whole building out in addition to some of the other
buildings, I think in the area, um, like in 2016 and then
hit it completely furnished. And then in the years after
that, and then the pandemic hit and their plans changed. As
far as of course, you know, working from home Etc. So
they've had all these floors that have been sitting vacant
fully furnish,
With, you know, the tags on the furniture. Um, since since,
before the pandemic and they are ready for us to come in
and just take possession of it and to be able to use all
this brand new Furnishing, uh, Etc at no extra cost. Um,
the space is it would fit about 550 cubicles, plus 50
offices or so and then multiple conference rooms so it will
suit our needs for, uh, the coming decades. So, the terms
of the lease that we are looking at is starting November
1st of this year 2024, and to expire on December 31st of
2020 20333, excuse me. So that's a little bit over 9 years.
The reason for that expiration date is that is the
expiration date of our Airline use and lease agreement
currently at O'Hare with the airlines. So we would like to
be able to plan for the next phase of office space use sort
of again coterminous with the um the the aula so that we
are planning for all these things at the same time. So the
way these leases would work is that because um, the
The, as I mentioned US, Cellular that company had rented
out all, all these floors, and then have them been using
it. They have 1 more year left in their lease. So the first
year is a sub lease from US Cellular. So the deal, uh, for
that is a 24.50 cents a square foot and that is a gross
rate. So that includes most utilities and other costs,
other than electric. So that's all in 4450. A square foot
so that because it's about 100,000 square feet, equals
approximately 2.4 million dollars for the first year rent.
Then the remaining 8 or so years of the lease would then be
a direct lease with the building owner because the US
Cellular lease would have expired. And the terms for that
are twenty dollars, a square foot, that's net. So we would
have to pay utilities and other costs above that that goes
up 50 cents a square foot a year. So not a compound
interest, just a simple 50 cents. The next year, it's 50
more cents, um, that equals less than 3% increase per year.
Um, here's the exciting part in elderman Lopez, I have
answers for you on these pieces to your question, um,
because the, the market is so good for us. Right now, we
also got the following, um, uh,
Benefits. The first is a rent. Abatement period
free rent for 11 months. Um from November 1st to 25th
through september 30th the 26th, it rent free. So
essentially it's a renter maintenance period, that is a
value of 3.2 million. And actually, I'll just go straight
to the question that elderman Lopez had, which is how it's
phrased in the, in the lease. So section B 6B of the lease
provides for. Um, I won't read all these words, but
essentially um, tenants obligations for net, rent and
tenants share of operating expenses, shall be abated in
full for the 11-month period. Commencing November 1st 2025
and ending on september 30th 2026, such period being here
and referred to as the free rent period. So that's
something that that's how its provided for in the lease.
And the second, uh, major, um, advantage that we were able
to negotiate is a
Dependent Improvement allowance. And so what that means is
that, um, we get a rent credit for certain expenses that we
might spend regarding, uh, related to construction costs,
Furniture architectural it. Etc in the amount of 3.4
million. So, the way that that's phrased is that in the
exhibit, B of the lease section 3A says, landlord is
providing tenant with a tenant Improvement. Allowance to be
applied toward any hard or soft, costs associated with
tenants, relocation to the building, including without
limitation construction costs, architectural Furniture
fixtures equipment, wiring cabling and moving expenses as
well as costs associated with improvement, work and
additional work, including landlords construction
management fee, as here in set forth because they they do
take a fee but we could use the credit for their management
fee. So and then it says that the tenant Improvement,
allowance is a defined term and then you go to the
definitions of the lease and here's how it's defined tenant
Improvement. Allowance
is defined as 3479735 and no 1 under Scholars. So 3 about
3.4 million dollars and then it says, in the definitions
calculated by multiplying 35 by 999421. So, that 99421 is
the square footage of the leasehold. Um, in the 35 dollars
is $35 per square foot that they're giving us as this, um,
tenant Improvement. Allowance, so both of those things
together, along with the, the rates that we were able to
negotiate.
Um make this a pretty good deal for us. Um I was going to
say too that the rates that we negotiated the 24 uh dollars
um or 20 sorry twenty dollars a square foot that goes up 50
cents a year is about 30% lower than the advertiser rates
for the other Parcels within this building that the
building owner is still trying to let out. So again, we
negotiated, um, a good deal of ourselves. So that's that's
the, um, that is the, the piece of those are the Salient
parts of the lease that lease and the sublease, let's just
say, there's 2 2 documents a lease with the building owner
and a sub lease with the current tenant, which is US
Cellular um, that we are looking for uh, approval on. Thank
you, chairman.
Thank you. Amber. Uh, open up for questions.
Alderman brunette.
So is this so this is a awesome. This is a triple net lease
so I'm sorry. Could you I assume that this is a triple net
lease
You know, I'm not sure. I'm familiar with that phrase. Can
you explain it? Okay.
When they paid the taxes, the utilities. That's right. So
correct, thank you for, for that taxes. And what is it
taxes? Insurance, utility and rent? Yeah, let me go back to
the screen if I could do that. So the the sub lease that we
we have with, uh, US Cellular is grow a grossly. So, in
other words, all of those things taxes, utilities, other
than electric, um, are all tied in together with the rate,
which is twenty 4.50. Then that's just the first year
because that we have to sublet that from, that current
tenant. After that first year, starting in November of 25,
we go into a direct lease with the building owner and that
is a net lease so it's not, it doesn't not include the
taxes. It does not include the utilities and that's at the
twenty dollars a square foot rate and then. So I noticed
when, when I'm at the airport, uh, coming in at different
times, the cleaning people are cleaning, do they? They
don't clean no spaces though, do they? That's a great
question. Uh, know the intent is so right now, our office
buildings at the airport are
Cleaned by, uh, city employees who are City or city
employee custodians. Whereas the terminals, the airport
terminals are are cleaned and, and maintained by a
contractor. Um, but it's a great question. I believe that
the cleaning of this building would be done then by the
building owner, um, they would Supply the cleaning, the
cleaning service that, but I, but I will get that answer to
the chair, if, if that's not correct. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you Alderman, Alderman Lopez.
thank you again, chairman and again good morning members of
the committee so thank you for answering my questions um
and the tech and to follow up on what the vice mayor was
referring. To the taxes that were paying are just for year
1. Correct. We would
Uh in year 1 we we the the 2450 Cent rate is all in. So we
wouldn't actually have to execute any uh, tax payments,
whereas in years 2 through 9, that's when we have a a net
lease instead of a gross lease that would be at twenty
dollars, a square foot. So then we would be paying um,
taxes and other other utility fees on top of that.
and what, and if I may ask, um,
What is the expected total of those taxes and fees that
we're paying? Because I'm
Curious, how a government agencies paying government taxes
to itself.
I believe we are property tax exempt and leasehold tax
exempt. So there are other fees and utilities that would go
into those numbers. But, uh, Alderman, I'm certainly happy
to send that through the chair at those numbers. It was
expected number. I should say.
and then if we could go to the last slide which had to deal
with the um,
yes.
Is there a time constraint on this?
Yes. Um, it is
So it's interesting because the, as I said the, the the
sublease, we'll, we'll, you know, our lease hold of this
space will commence on November 1st of this year. So we'll
be, you know, moving and then the um, the expenses that we
we would encourage that would that would apply. You know,
that this would apply to would be incurred within that
first year because it's the moving costs. It's, you know,
any kind of cabling and wiring that, that we need to do,
but it's an interesting situation because this, so again,
we'll be under that sub lease for that first year with US,
Cellular year 2. We start the main lease with the building
owner, which is where this provision is included, so we'll
have already incurred these costs. So there is a limit in
the lease that you have to incur the cost within. I think,
a few months of when that, um,
That mainly starts. But the good thing for us is that we
will already be in that building for a year, we will
already have incurred them. And all those incurred costs
will, will be able will be able to apply that kind of. So
they're gonna sew the abatement and the allowance will run
basically uh
Uh, concurrent not. Not concurrent consecutively. It's
supposed to concurrently so the yeah, that's a good point.
Yes, they will write the abatement of the allowance will be
in the same.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you Alderman Lopez.
If there are no further questions, can I get a motion to
pass ordinance 202400010971, Alderman, queneau moves, all
in favor say I
All opposed and opinion of the chair of the eyes have it.
The due pass, recommendation of. This ordinance will be
reported out at the next city council meeting next
Wednesday, septembar, the 18th, 20224 folks. If I could
just keep your attention for a, a quick minute, all of you
should have received information about what we are. We are
referring to as order up. These are concession
opportunities, more than 100
Uh, in terminals, 1 and 3, I'm going to ask managing Deputy
Commissioner Ritter to talk about that. Uh, and also uh
thighs here, she can pass some more information out again
folks, this is more information that can benefit your
communities creating opportunities for entrepreneurs in
your communities. Amber. Thank you chairman. And thanks for
the Indulgence of uh, just a couple of minutes to to Hype
our new RFP. This is truly a historic, uh, opportunity for
businesses in the city of Chicago, specifically, small
businesses, or, you know, anywhere. But, um, we're hoping
to get a lot of local, uh, local blood here. Um, all of you
should have received, uh, you know, from thighs.
Wonderful team, in-person deliveries of a bunch of materials
on this um, to I think both your downtown and your ward
offices. We are absolutely happy to provide more Alderman.
Lopez had a very I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Had a very uh,
fantastic question at 1 of the briefings about why it was
not translated into other languages. We are in the midst of
doing that. We'll have it done just in a few business days,
um, to Spanish polish Arabic and Chinese. I think so. We'll
be letting all of, you know, when those are available we'll
make rounds and distribute them. And certainly at request,
if you'd like some more, we've got those. Um, so thank you
thank you for that. Um, idea really quickly, the reason
this is a historic, um, opportunity is because um, largely
because of the small business opportunities
Another reason it's historic though is because of the sheer
size of it as chairman mentioned, it's over a hundred
Stores um about 146,000 square feet of retail space. That
makes it 1 of the largest concessions rfps of any airport
ever. Put out all at 1 time. So it's, it's got because of
its size, we're able to give opportunities for businesses
of all sizes in there. We've broken the the spaces into
packages, some packages are very big and require a lot of
capital. Uh, outlay off the top in order to do the buildout
that you know, might be attractive for a larger companies
that have the access to like, you know, many many millions
of dollars of capital up front um all the way down to
there's medium-sized packages and then there's very small
packages that are just 3 or 4 stores uh together in
packages that we have importantly
We have set those aside with your mark, those solely for
small businesses. So we call those the group C packages, a
b, and c a b in the biggest ones. B. Middle C for, uh, just
a few package, just a few locations together. There are 8
of those total within their, within this RFP, in the
airport. Um, you can only bid on those if you meet the
definition of a small business under the small business
administration, the federal assembly business
administration, we're very excited about that. That means
it's 10% of all the square footage of the entire commercial
space that is reflected in the RFP. That is solely for
small businesses. And then, on top of that, uh, the A, and
B packages, have a 32% acdbe goal, and that, of course, is
airport. Concession are disadvantaged business Enterprise.
I know you you folks know that better than most, of course.
Um, so that means that of those larger packages that we
expect, you know, maybe some bigger companies to bid on,
uh, because they have the capital to put up front, uh, to
build do the buildout. They still need to partner, whether
in a JV or other kind of ownership or
or other ways that qualify with smaller businesses that are
acdb, small diverse businesses and that has to reach 32% of
the structure of the of of each package that, um, so that's
that's really great opportunities across the board for
businesses Within These spaces. We're also instituting an
incubator program. So some of the biggest package winners
package winners are going to have to fund and uh, build
out. Um, some white box spaces for small businesses to be
able to just circle in and out of
Um you know TurnKey ready not a lot of capital investment of
of any kind. If any at all by the time by the small
business they can sell their stuff, get their feet wet in
the airport and then we'll, you know, get the next get the
next ones in. So that'll be a really exciting program and
we'll be working with all of you on on locating some
businesses, that might be a great candidates for that. Um,
all tenants also need to have an Outreach and mentoring
plan. We want to get interns in the spaces. We want to make
sure that, you know, the very unique nature of doing
business in the airport that th that knowledge is being
passed along to the next generation of potential.
Concession airs. Um and we've also uh importantly have a
Prohibition on exclusive Arrangements which means that um
no no big company can can tell it's smaller business
partner. Hey you can't also put a bid together with this
other company. The smaller businesses are are free to put,
you know, to bid on every single package if they want to
and and any kind of restriction on that is is going to
disqualify a bit. Um, all of this and everything else that
we could possibly want is all together at a new website
that we
We uh, at CDA have just launched along with this RFP which
is concession, our concessions resources website. So it's
flight chicago.com confession. Resources that is what is
linked on the QR code, on all the stuff that we've given
you posters postcards business cards. You can just put, you
can get thousands of these things, just pass them out to
anybody. Who wants to know, hey, how can I? I've got a
restaurant. I've got a store, I've got an idea for product.
Who can I talk to you about getting my stuff in the
airport, where we have,
You know.
Dozens of millions of people coming through every single
day. This is the QR code, they can click on all of the
information. Is there? How to get certified as an acdbe?
How to do business at an airport, concessions, 101. Um, how
to make a great proposal, which is which is great like what
do I need to do? To get my stuff together to propose
something and then also how to get financing as a small
business it's all there along with other things and links
to other City departments and other entities like the small
small business administration that could be helpful in
addition to the RFP itself. So it's all on there and then
last thing I'll say and thank you for your patience is we
are having our pre-proposal meeting, uh, you know, at the
kickoff um, the the RFP and and to get people ready to to
respond, that will be held on Monday september 30th um at
the O'Hare Hilton Hotel at the airport, uh in person but
we'll also have a virtual link. So any of your uh
constituents who are saying well, how do I get more
information about this? They should attend the pre-proposal
meeting, that's where they're going to get everything. They
could possibly want to know either in person or virtually
for those who are intending.
Person. We're also having a in-person networking event,
right afterwards. Immediately following with some, you
know, uh, light refreshments and we'll facilitate getting
those folks to meet each other. Because, you know what, I
always say at the top of any of these Network events is
that it's all about serendipity. It's all about who you
happen to talk to so many things can happen because you
happen to meet this 1 guy, who knows his other guy or you
just happen to strike up a conversation with someone. I I
can tell you I'm not going to bore you now. But um so many
opportunities so many businesses that are currently at the
airport who made those connections to get where they are
because they met someone at a symposium or something and
then next thing you know they're doing business fantastic.
So that's what that's for we'll do what we can to do. Some
ice breakers and things so people can meet each other and
then the last thing is that's september 30th and you can
sign up for that. Everyone can sign up for that at the QR
code. It's all on here and then the days that follow that
October 1st through October 3rd, we're also giving
in-person tours of all. Thank you, Sherman of all. The
concession spaces that are available, so people can go see
them if they're if they're, if they would like to get a
better look at,
These spaces. So that's it. If you have any questions,
please let me know. Let commissioner Reno, we're here to
answer everything um and look forward to continuing to
promote this with your constituents. Thank you.
Thank you Amber. Uh,
Special. Thanks to commissioner re and her entire staff
many were here today. Tracy, Payne, thighs over there.
She's got more information. Got any follow-up on on order
up?
Uh, Rob welcome to the team.
Thank you, Amber.
Uh, hold on Alderman Lopez.
I think you've exceeded your limit, I probably.
I know someone else. Who would love to tell me that at some
point. But um, I just want to point out today is
Mario's Birthday.
Happy birthday. You would like a terminal named after him,
there being no further business before the committee. Can I
get a motion to adjourn?
Alderman pasado. So moves all in favor.
All opposed and the opinion that chair of the eyes have it.
Ladies and gentlemen, the meeting committee on Aviation is
adjourned. We'll see you next Wednesday, septembar, 18th
here for the meeting.