The following provisions are hereby enacted and adopted for the purpose of managing and controlling the finances and making all needful rules and regulations to maintain good order and the protection of the airport, airport property and equipment, and persons stationed at or using the airport, and the city generally.
(A) The City Council shall have the control and management of the finances and of all of the property, including real estate, and shall establish, enforce, order, modify, amend and repeal all ordinances, bylaws, rules and regulations for the governing of the Airport Commission.
(B) A depository shall be established by the City Council, and all funds received as rents or profits shall be placed therein and all money drawn therefrom shall be approved by the City Council in accordance with the Charter.
(C) The duties of the Airport Commission will be to determine the aeronautical policies of the airport, subject, however, to the approval of the City Council. It will further be the duty of the Airport Commission to maintain order and to make and determine emergency decisions that cannot await the approval of the City Council.
(D) It will be the duty of the City Council to take full and complete charge of the following described city property and rent or lease the same for a term of years, not to exceed 20 years:
(1) The east half of the Northwest Quarter (E1/2 of NW 1/4) of Section Eleven (11) Township One Hundred Eleven (111), Range Twenty-Six (26), excepting therefrom a ten (10) acre tract of land described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of Section Eleven (11); thence south one thousand one hundred (1,100) feet along the section line; thence west at right angle two hundred sixty-six (266) feet; thence north at right angle three hundred forty (340) feet; thence west at right angle one hundred eighty-eight (188) feet; thence north at right angle seven hundred sixty (760) feet; thence east at right angle four hundred fifty-four (454) feet to place of beginning, consisting of seventy (70) acres more or less, all in the City of Le Sueur, County of Le Sueur, and State of Minnesota;
(2) Also, part of NW 1/4, NE1/4, Section 11-111-26, beginning at the southeast corner of the tract; thence north 45 degrees 19 minutes, west, 1,871.4 feet to the northwest corner of the tract; thence north 89 degrees-57 minutes east along the north line of the tract, 710.4 feet; thence south 45 degrees-19 minutes east, 871.7 feet to the east line of the tract; thence south 0 degrees 02 minutes east along the east line of the tract 703.6 feet to the place of beginning and containing 15.74 acres, more or less;
(3) Also, part of SW1/4, SE1/4, Section 2-111-26, beginning at the southwest corner of the tract; thence north 0 degrees-23 minutes west along the west line of the tract, 708.0 feet; thence south 45 degrees-19 minutes east, 1,005.8 feet to the south line of the tract; thence south 89 degrees-57 minutes west along the south line of the tract, 710.4 feet to the place of beginning and containing 5.77 acres, more of less;
(4) Also, part of SE1/4, SW1/4, Section 2-111-26, beginning at the southeast corner of the tract, thence north 45 degrees-19 minutes west, 673.0 feet; thence north 44 degrees-41 minutes east, 500.0 feet; thence south 45 degrees-19 minutes east, 171.8 feet to the east line of the tract; thence south 0 degrees-23 minutes east along the east line of the tract, 708.0 feet to the place of beginning and containing 4.84 acres, more or less; and
(5) Any other property that may hereafter be acquired for airport purposes.
(E) The lease shall include, as part of the consideration, a public liability policy, or its equivalent, safeguarding and forever hold the city blameless financially against damages as a result of personal injuries, death or property damage.
(F) A member of City Staff shall keep a journal or record of all rules, records and proceedings of the Commission, and the same shall be entered on the Airport Commission journal, kept especially for that purpose.
(1973 Code, § 2-31) (Ord. 223, passed 4-6-1945; Ord. 270, passed 3-1-1965; Ord. 578, passed 3-25-2019; Ord. 606, passed 6-24-2024)