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• Temporary special noise abatement procedures should be implemented to reduce impacts on neighborhoods. • Extensive public outreach needs to occur to alert neighborhoods to the potential for temporary periods of increased noise. Committee Recommendations None 6. Report on North Field and South Field Study Groups and Aviation Stakeholders Advisory Committee Kathy Ornelas reported that the most recent North Field meeting focused on helicopter operations. Representatives of the Oakland Police Department and Coast Guard helicopter operations attended. Their pilots are instructed to be sensitive to neighborhoods when they are operating in local communities and they will only fly at low altitudes or in repetitive patterns when necessary in the performance of public safety duties. Both agencies welcome complaints if there are problems observed with their operations. The Group discussed that of greater concern is the operation of news service helicopters. Noise Office staff will continue to try to bring representatives of the new services to the group for a similar discussion. The group also heard a report from the Noise Office that the FAA has not made any further progress with the installation of an Instrument Landing System on Runway 27L. It has been stalled primarily due to budgetary and staffing reasons. The Noise Office will be using a consultant, Harvey Hartman who is a retired Air Traffic Control Tower Chief for the FAA, to attempt to move the process forward. South Field Group members learned that Northern California TRA,CON will not be pursuing adoption of a Standard Instrument Departure procedure for the desired right turn from Runway 11 during inclement weather, a procedure which takes South Field traffic out to the Bay rather than over the San Leandro Shoreline-Marina area during departures. Since a Letter of Agreement for this procedure exists between the Air Traffic Control tower and the airport, that letter will continue to serve as the procedure to be followed during the Southeast plan periods. Aviation Stakeholder group members learned that those meeting agendas and highlights are also now on the airport's website, under the Development and Master Plan pages. A taxiway paving project scheduled for this month will require the temporary closure of the Ground Run-up Enclosure , which is used to deflect noise when engine testing is done at night. The airport had intended to have run-ups done at the run-up pad at the south end of the South Field, which would have sent all of the run-up noise towards San Leandro. However, Will Fernandez, San Leandro's citizen representative to the Noise Forum, recommended an alternate location mid-field which could minimize noise impacts during those nights to both