Weld County approves three federal AIP grants to fund main ramp and taxiway work at Greeley-Weld County Airport

The Weld County Board of Commissioners approved three Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grant agreements to support design and construction work at the Greeley-Weld County Regional Airport. County staff said the airport authority had already approved the grants and asked the board to authorize the chair and county attorney to sign the agreements.

Toby Taylor in purchasing introduced the agenda item on behalf of the airport board and presented three separate grants: an $850,000 AIP grant for the Bravo and Echo complex design phase, a $150,000 annual entitlement allocation for main ramp apron rehabilitation, and a $282,000 airport infrastructure grant from the bipartisan infrastructure law allocation for the main ramp project. Together the amounts reported in the public record total $1,282,000.

Commissioners moved and approved resolutions to accept each grant and authorize the chair and county attorney to sign the agreements. County staff said the airport authority had approved all three items prior to the board meeting.

The grants are designated for the Bravo and Echo complex design work and for main ramp apron rehabilitation, including costs associated with the ongoing main ramp reconstruction project. No new local match requirement was specified in the board discussion recorded in the transcript; the items were described as using entitlement and federal infrastructure-law allocations. The board approved each resolution by voice vote.