STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Sustainable
AGENDA DATE: September 24, 2025
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): Citywide
DEPARTMENT: Department of Aviation
EXECUTIVE: Dev Rastogi
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Consideration of the appointment of Sarah Standifer, Director - Dallas Water Utilities Department, as President, Ivan Guel, Assistant Director - Budget and Management Services, as Vice-President, and Heather Estrada, Assistant Director - Department of Aviation, as Secretary to the Love Field Airport Modernization Corporation Board of Directors for a two-year term expiring on September 30, 2027, or until the appointment of their successors by the City Council - Financing: No Cost Consideration to the City
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BACKGROUND
On June 25, 2008, the City Council authorized the establishment of a local government corporation, the Love Field Airport Modernization Corporation (LFAMC), for the purpose of financing the Love Field Modernization Program (LFMP), along with the appointment of the LFAMC’s initial Board of Directors.
The LFAMC is a nonstock, nonprofit local government corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas, including particularly Subchapter D of Chapter 431, Texas Transportation Code (the Act), and is duly constituted public instrumentality of the City of Dallas, Texas (the City), a political subdivision of the State of Texas, within the meanings of the regulations of the United States Treasury Department and the rulings of the Internal Revue Service prescribed and promulgated pursuant to section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), and the LFAMC is functioning and acting solely on behalf of the City.
The Department of Aviation now wishes to initiate the new Love Field Expansion Airport Program (LEAP). The corporation’s current members of the Board of Directors are Daisy Fast, Director - Office of Communications and Customer Experience / 311 (President), Jack Ireland, Chief Financial Officer (Vice President) and Dawn Blair, Sr. Manager - Business & Commercial Opportunities - Department of Aviation (Secretary). The current members’ terms have expired, and new successors can now be appointed by the City Council. Under the bylaws, eligible persons to be appointed as board members must be a City employee, a City of Dallas resident, and qualified elector of the City.
PRIOR ACTION/REVIEW (COUNCIL, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS)
On April 8, 2020, the City Council authorized (1) the re-appointment of LFAMC Board of Directors to the Love Field Airport Modernization Corporation for a two-year term expiring on September 30, 2024 or until the appointment of their successors by the City Council; and (2) authorized the adoption of an amendment to the LFAMC officers to extend the term of office to two years and allow each to serve until that officer’s successor is duly appointed by Resolution No. 20-0544.
On February 22, 2023, the City Council approved the appointment of Jack Ireland, Chief Financial Officer, Daisy Fast, Director - Strategic Customer Services, and Dawn Blair, Interim Assistant Director - Department of Aviation to the Love Field Airport Modernization Corporation Board of Directors by Resolution No. 23-0275.
FISCAL INFORMATION
No cost consideration to the City.