as a retired city manager type, i suggest you survey what other
airports in the area are doing in this regard then contact the city
manager as a group (assuming the c.m. is the airport managers boss)
with your helpful suggestions for improvment. i'll bet that if you
survey all the pilots you'll find a number who are active in the
political affairs of the community (write checks). after you give the
city manager a chance to work things out you should then go after the
mayor and council but it's not really cool to do that as a first move.
sounds like the local airport manager is just trying to do a good job
and just needs a little help understanding what that is. the city
manager, mayor and council have lots of stuff to worry about without
something like this. generally, i never liked department heads getting
groups riled-up without a darn good reason and this isn't one.

have you called a.o.p.a. to see if they have any "go by" type data you
could use as backup?

dan