The Wiscasset Municipal Airport Advisory Committee has been down two of five members for several months, a situation airport manager Frank Costa would like to change.

“An airport is not a dormant thing,” Costa said. The committee discusses airport business including how to showcase the town-owned airport to help attract visitors to Wiscasset, Costa said.

Due to members’ schedule conflicts with meeting dates, the panel did not meet in October and will not meet in November, Costa said Nov. 10.

And when the committee does meet, the sessions are workshops, where no votes can be taken, due to the current makeup, Costa said. Three voting members make a quorum for the committee, but member Steve Williams is a non-resident, and therefore, non-voting member, town officials said.

“The message we really want to get out there is that you don’t have to have a plane to be on the airport committee,” Wiscasset Town Manager Marian Anderson said in an interview about the ongoing search to fill the committee’s vacant seats.

“I think that’s been part of our hurdle, is folks think they have to have a hangar there, or own a plane.” The committee would be a great place to start for anyone interested in learning how the municipal government and its facilities work, and are managed and budgeted, Anderson said. “A lot of it is things you would have in any department.”

The two seats have gone unfilled since two members did not seek to renew their terms. The committee meets monthly at the airport on Chewonki Neck Road with Costa.

As of Monday, Nov. 14, the town website at wiscasset.org also listed openings for several other panels, including the board of appeals; budget, appearance of the town, celebrations, cemetery, community center scholarship and ordinance review committees; conservation and historic preservation commissions; and the Wiscasset Public Advisory Downtown Committee for the Downtown Improvements Project.