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Council approves taxiway work, rejects private hangar bids after FAA denial; airport grant and hangar costs questioned in public comment
Summary
City approved an engineering amendment for a taxiway project and formally rejected bids for a private hangar expansion after the FAA denied a grant for private hangars. At open forum, an aviation operator and a resident questioned upfront costs and grant overages for airport projects.
The City Council approved an amendment for engineering services tied to the airport's partial parallel Taxiway C and Taxiway B and formally rejected all bids for the private hangar expansion after the Federal Aviation Administration declined the city's grant application for private hangars.
City Engineer Justin Peterson described the Helms & Associates amendment as the next step in the taxiway project, adding $512,000 for bidding, construction administration and resident engineering and increasing the contract to $697,000. Peterson said the taxiway work will be funded primarily through FAA grants (approximately 90%), with state and local shares making up the balance.
On the private hangar area expansion, Peterson said bids had been accepted pending an FAA grant;…
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