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Flagstaff airport trims snow-removal building plan after FAA eligibility review; cost, site work drive redesign
Summary
Staff reported a right-sizing of a proposed snow-removal equipment building from roughly $33 million to a smaller, FAA-eligible program after review of grant eligibility and site earthwork costs; commission discussion centered on site selection, grant rules (Buy American, Davis-Bacon) and next steps with FAA and contractors.
Flagstaff City airport staff presented a redesigned plan for a snow-removal equipment building on May 8, saying the original $33 million estimate required significant right-sizing to align with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant eligibility and the airport’s available entitlement and discretionary funds.
Adam Yelli, airport programs manager, walked the commission through the project history: the design evolved over several years, multiple engineers and contractors have worked on it, and the project has shifted into a construction-manager-at-risk procurement to allow early contractor input. The airport estimated an initial total project of approximately $33,000,000; staff then identified roughly $10,000,000 of that as earthwork/site costs and began “right-sizing” to fit probable FAA funding and eligibility rules.
Yelli said the programmatic changes reduced the building from an original plan of about 25,000…
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