||| FROM KIM KIMPLE for PORT OF ORCAS |||
The Port of Orcas Board of Commissioners will hold a Special Meeting tomorrow, Monday, January 16 at 5 p.m. This meeting will be held online and in-person at the Port of Orcas terminal conference room.
The purpose of this meeting is to host the Port’s Engineering firm, Precision Approach Engineering, who will be presenting the Board with a status report on current grants, projects, and future funding opportunities.
For more information and access credentials, see attached 2023 01 16 Special Meeting Agenda.
Respectfully…
Missed the meeting, yet appreciate the Agenda notice, however: accessibility for the Public (what specifically is being discussed) and full transparency for constituents (decoding “insider-speak”) are both pretty important.
Please decrypt the following acronyms and ask the Consultant (“Precision Approach”) to be more, um, precise, in their communications. When using acronyms, spell them out on the first use with a parenthetical indicator ,(e.g., “They declared a War On Opaque Acronyms (WOOA)…”) then it’s fine to revert to them subsequently for convenience.
It was almost impossible to know what was planned to be discussed in advance at this particular “Airports 101 Meeting” unless one had the secret decoder ring for the acronyms.
This is public work. It should be presented absolutely clearly to the public in all communications–even, especially, in advance of the relevant meetings.
So:
O&M = ???
MOS = ???
PAPI = ??? (I know it’s Precision Approach Path Indicator/s, but most of the public does not)
ACGRP = ???
ARPA = ???
DBE = ???
PAE = ???
CATS = ???
CIP/JPC = ???
AIP = ???
NLT = ???
SCIP = ???
Thank you.
Hi there, Matt!
Thank you for your response. I, myself, am still wrapping my head around some of the “insider-speak” and can appreciate good, clear explanations. I’ll include the acronyms here, and have also posted them on the Port’s meeting material webpage, along with the presentation and audio recording.
https://www.portoforcas.com/2023-minutes-financial-and-manager-report/
O&M = Operations and Maintenance
MOS = Modification of Standard
PAPI = Precision Approach Path Indicator
ACRGP = Airport Coronavirus Response Grant Program
ARPA = American Rescue Plan Act
DBE = Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
PAE = in this case, Precision Approach Engineering. It is also the airport designator for Paine Field Everett
CATS = Certification Activity Tracking System
CIP = Capital Improvement Plan
JPC = Joint Planning Conference
AIP = Airport Improvement Plan
NLT = No Later Than
SCIP = State Capital Improvement Program
Kim Kimple
Manager, Port of Orcas
manager@portoforcas.com
thanks for these. Kim. So helpful, since there were many I didn’t get in my note taking.