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3. Discussion Regarding Citizen Appointment to Oakland Airport/Community Noise Management Forum (Current appointment expires July 21, 2005) The Committee agreed that the current appointee, John Manuel, should continue to serve until the process for appointing a replacement has been finalized. This item will be discussed • further at the July committee meeting. Committee Recommendations None 4. North Field Group, South Field Group and Master Plan Committee Reports Kathy Omelas reported on recent meeting of both the North Field and South Field groups. Both groups studied the need to ask pilots of stage 2 corporate jets to depart from the South Field versus the North Field. Currently there are about 4 corporate jets departing from the North Field every 6 months. These are very loud noise events for neighborhoods near both the North and South Fields. Councilmember Santos was concerned about transference of noise from one area of town to another. Carole Wedl from the Airport Noise Office commented that when these jets depart from the South Field only 2 noise monitors are typically triggered in neighborhoods, as opposed to 6 being triggered by the North Field flights. The noise incidents would actually be lower for all neighborhoods, including those near the South Field. Both study groups have supported that noise abatement procedure, and it was endorsed by the Noise Management Forum members. En a recent Airport Noise Report publication, distributed at a recent Noise Forum meeting, Ms. Omelas saw mention of some new noise abatement procedures that have been approved for the Reid - Hillview Airport in San Jose. Those will be brought to the North Field Group for follow -up. At the April meeting of the Airport Master Plan Stakeholders Committee, a diagram of potential development sites on the airport property was discussed, showing areas where possible parking facilities, new roadways and a cargo ferry access could potentially be developed. City representatives on the committee expressed concern regarding the concept design that shows a road leading from Eden Road in San Leandro to the main airport terminal. Stakeholder committee members were assured that this was only conceptual, that the road would be very expensive, would require acquisition of land from San Leandro, and might only be used for airport service vehicles. All San Leandro representatives on the Stakeholder Committee voiced opposition to such a concept. The suggested cargo ferry access was also an area of concern, since it showed one potential ferry landing site at the end of the South Field closest to. San Leandro. Again, Port 2