CITY OF NEW HAVEN TONI N. HARP, MAYOR I I I 165 Church Street New Haven, Connecticut 06510 T: 203.946.8200 F: 203.946.7683 SINCE 1958 January 2, 2019 Mayor Joseph Maturo, Esq. Town of East Haven 250 Main Street East Haven, CT 06512 John Picard, Chairman Tweed New Haven Airport 155 Burr Street New Haven, CT 06512 Re: Terminating the March 16, 2009 Memorandum of Agreement Gentlemen: On March 16, 2009, the City of New Haven, John DeStefano, its then Mayor, the Town of East Haven, by its then Mayor and the Airport Authority signed onto a ?Memorandum of Agreement Concerning Tweed New Haven Regional (MOA), to which reference may be had. By the terms of that MOA, the City, the Town and the Authority agreed, inter alia, that the main runway at the Airport be limited to the existing paved runway length of 5,600 linear feet.? The MOA was also endorsed by a ?Statement of State Legislative Partners," signed by two (2) State Senators and three (3) members of the House of Representatives. By its terms, the MOA reserved to the City of New Haven the right to terminate it if the State of Connecticut fails to enact the Legislative Initiatives contained in Section of this Agreement in the 2009 Legislative Session.? The State failed to enact all of the Legislative Initiatives set forth in the MOA. See subsections 1.c and 2.a of the Legislative Initiatives. Further, the provisions of the MOA concerning 30 commercial departures per day and 180,000 commercial enplanements per year for Tweed have never materialized at the Airport. In fact, commercial departures per day has never topped five (5) and annual enplane?ments has'ne'ver topped 36,010, since 2009. The economic health of the Airport has deteriorated, and the Airport has failed to play the vital rele' In the region envisioned by the MOA As of 2018, the City annually contributes $350, 000 and the State some $1,500,000 annUally to subsidize the Airport operations. Follow us on Siguenos En lia- Page 2 of 2 On November 24, 2015. the Authority commenced a lawsuit in the United States District Court seeking to have the State Legislation enacted in 2009. limiting the existing paved runway to 5600 linearfeet, declared null and void, in light of federal preemption and the claim of the Federal Aviation Administration that it alone has jurisdiction over navigable air space defined as the airspace needed to insure safety in the take?off and landing of aircraft. On April 18, 2016 the Court granted the City?s Motion to Intervene in that litigation which remains pending on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. For the City of New Haven, I have determined that the MOA of some nine-plus years age does not serve the best interests of the City and, in fact. hinders economic growth in the City and the region. I hereby terminate the Memorandum of Agreement dated March 16, 2009. Toni N. Harp: Mayor CC: Senator Martin M. Looney Senator Leonard A. Fasano