A. General: At all times, it shall be the policy of the commission to attempt to identify the nature and magnitude of those public interests which can most efficiently be served by the operation, maintenance, and development of the airport without exceeding the limited resource dollars available. Consistent with this overall policy, the following policies and procedures shall govern the activities of the commission:
1. The commission shall encourage and utilize wherever possible voluntary contributions and services and shall refrain from engaging in any activity or providing any service using public employees or funds that can be conducted or provided satisfactorily by private parties.
2. The commission shall regularly review all activities at the airport, determine the kinds and amounts of user fees and charges available to it and recommend the same to the owner for adoption as part of this chapter.
3. The commission shall do everything in its power to ensure that the public shall never be deprived of equal and uniform use of the airport, that no person shall be illegally or unjustly discriminated against in access to any service or facility available to the public at the airport, and that no area of the airport shall be devoted to the exclusive personal, business, or commercial use of any person, whatsoever, except on the basis of adequate compensation or rent paid to the benefit of the airport. Any agreements concerning the use of the airport, including the conduct of any business or activity thereon on a regular basis, shall be reduced to writing in a form approved by the owner as part of this chapter. Furthermore, special events to be conducted by nonprofit groups may be approved and allowed by the commission on such terms as the commission deems appropriate, provided, that adequate arrangements are made to ensure that neither the owner nor the commission shall be liable nor made a surety for any such event.
B. Financial:
1. All monies appropriated for the construction, improvement, equipment, or maintenance or operation of the airport or earned by such airport or made available for its construction, improvement, equipment, maintenance, or operation in any manner whatsoever shall be deposited with the treasurer-comptroller of the city, where such monies shall be kept in a special fund and paid out only on order of the airport commission.
2. No charges, bills, costs, expenses or other demands for any payment shall be valid and binding against the commission unless requests for authorization be made prior to any such obligation being incurred.
3. The commission shall, in accordance with the normal budgetary procedures of the city, prepare and submit an annual budget setting forth the amount of any requested appropriation, anticipated revenues, and expenditures for commission activities in the forthcoming year, and a statement of actual and estimated revenues and expenditures for the current year, in such detail and together with such additional information, as may be required by the city. The commission shall work closely with the city treasurer-comptroller in maintaining the accounts of the commission in sufficient detail and form so as to maintain sound control and provide for adequate information to the commission and city officers in evaluating the efficiency of airport operations and for future planning. However, the commission shall cooperate with, and receive the cooperation of, all city officers and employees to the end that the officers of the city may be informed and familiar regarding the affairs of the commission and so that the commission may most effectively utilize the city resources made available to it. (1975 Code Ch. 26 § III)