(A) City Council. The Council shall have general management and oversight of the Flandreau Municipal Airport.
(B) Airport Manager. The Manager shall be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Flandreau Municipal Airport under the general management and oversight of the Council. In addition, it shall be the responsibility of the incumbent to ensure that this chapter is kept current, accurately depicting the day-to-day operation of the Flandreau Municipal Airport.
(C) Utilities and Public Works Department. The Department shall provide services such as snow removal, mowing, spraying, runway light maintenance, and other maintenance and repair of airport property and equipment on a reimbursable basis.
(D) Airport Board. The Board shall meet as necessary to develop recommendations and suggestions for the improvement of the Flandreau Municipal Airport. Said recommendations and suggestions shall be submitted to the Council for appropriate action.
(E) Tenants; hangar owners.
(1) Tenants may lease from the city ground upon which the tenant’s hangar exists for such term and fees as specified in the executed lease.
(2) Fees shall be payable in advance on or before the anniversary date of the lease agreement.
(3) Tenants may not alter the terms and specifications of the building as approved by the Council in any respect without the express written consent of the Council. The tenant may not alter or remodel the hangar at a later time or move the building without the written consent of the Council.
(4) (a) The hangar will remain the property of the tenant and all obligations to ensure said property shall be that of the tenant, but under no circumstances may the tenant ever remove the building from the land on which it is constructed without the express written permission of the city.
(b) This lease shall be assignable by the tenant so as to give effect to the sale by the tenant of the aircraft hangar.
(c) It is understood that the hangar shall remain on the lot on which it was constructed and cannot, in any event, be removed by an assignee without the written permission of the city.
(5) Tenants shall be obligated to keep the hangar and all of the land situated within the hangar lot being leased in a clean and orderly condition and in a good state of repair. Any breach of this provision shall allow the city to cancel this agreement as provided.
(6) The tenant may not, under any circumstances, store gasoline or any other inflammable liquid within the hangar or premises being leased herein other than what gasoline may be incidentally stored within the operating tanks of an aircraft situated in said hangar. The tenant shall not store any other substance or material in the hangar that would create a fire hazard not usual to aircraft hangars.
(7) The city shall be harmless from any and all liability arising out of the tenant’s possession, building, maintenance, and operation of the aircraft hangar.
(8) Tenants may be required by the city to move his or her aircraft hangar at the tenant’s own expense to another location, provided for privately owned hangars, if substantial change is made by the city so as to necessitate a change in location of the aircraft hangars.
(9) It shall be understood that the purpose of this lease is to allow the tenant to maintain his or her own aircraft, and under no circumstances may the tenant conduct any business from the premises being leased herein or the aircraft hangar.
(10) It shall be understood that upon termination of the lease agreement, both by the expiration of the terms or any renewal thereof, the aircraft hangar shall become the sole and complete property of the city and the tenant shall have no further interest in the same.
(F) Tenants; city hangar.
(1) Tenants of the city hanger may lease hangar space for such term and fees as specified in the executed lease.
(2) Payments shall be made in advance of the commencement of the lease agreement and in advance on or before the same day of each month thereafter.
(3) Tenants may not sublet said hangar space without prior permission of the city.
(4) Tenants shall be obligated to keep the space that is leased clear of garbage, refuse, and hazardous materials. The tenant may not store gasoline or other flammable liquids on the premises being leased other than that which may be incidentally stored within the operating tanks of an aircraft occupying the leased space.
(5) Tenants will be responsible for maintaining insurance on its property and the city will not be responsible for damage that may occur to it while located on or in the process of entering or exiting the leased premises.
(6) Electricity provided by the city will not be charged, but the tenant understands that the city will not provide heat to the building.
(7) The tenant agrees to hold the city harmless from any and all liability arising out of the tenant’s occupation of the leased premises and the tenant’s maintenance and operation of the aircraft.
(Prior Code, Ch.15.3)