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President’s Message
August 2009
The first meeting to organize in accordance with the recently passed Nevada State Legislature’s joint resolution SJR3 finally took place on July 30th. This is a meeting that had been delayed since the resolution had literally been passed by the State Senate and Assembly. In the end your CCAA made it happen.
However, while SJR3 itself is a toothless tiger, the bright side of the resolution is our opportunity to open a direct dialog with many levels of our government and its’ bureaucracy previously not available to us. We need to make the most of this opportunity in order to counteract the media and local government use and exploitation of bad data. It does General Aviation no good when any news program about an aviation incident starts off with the same clips showing the same burning house with a repeat of how many accidents, incorrect, as they are, attributable to a specific airport. It also does General Aviation no good when there is a rush to judgment by the County Department of Aviation before the cause is known.
Another example when we all stick together is the unfinished business related to the Shade Hangar and Tie-down Lease Agreement. Your cooperative effort in refusing to sign this one sided agreement has made all the difference so far. In the meantime do not sign the Lease until the County finally decides to revise the document in a reasonable manner.
It has taken some time and considerable effort to make the self styled “powers that be” take full notice of the CCAA. We are not one hundred per cent there yet as is borne out by the attitude of certain public officials who declare that it is “my airport” not that it is the public’s airport. This is an attitudinal and ego problem on the part of so many of our “public servants” that we see developing on many fronts now days eroding public interests in more than just airports. There appears to be a major disconnect between “us” the common sheep and “them” the elected and non-elected self anointed shepherds. The problem from my perspective is a refusal to say, “Baa” although I am happy to say Bah to any number of our officials and their attitudes.
Safe flying.
David Lerner
President
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