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Committee approves aviation priority list after DOTD corrects six line items; more than 100 applications reviewed
Summary
The committee approved the Airport Construction and Development priority program after DOTD reported arithmetic corrections affecting six line items; DOTD said it received more than 100 applications for 69 airports statewide.
The Joint Committee on Transportation on March 24 approved the Airport Construction and Development Priority Program after DOTD reported small adjustments to six line items that had been recalculated and emailed to members before the vote.
Julia Fisher Cormier, commissioner of the Office of Multimodal Commerce, told the committee the aviation list required amendments because “some capital outlay was included in the calculations that shouldn't have been.” She said DOTD emailed the committee the corrected line items and that the program encompasses more than 100 applications covering 69 airports in the state.
Why it matters: The aviation program distributes state funding to public-use airports across Louisiana; DOTD characterized the list as broadly beneficial to the state’s airport network and said corrections were limited to accounting for funds outside the program’s authority.
Details and procedure: Cormier summarized the error as an accounting issue — capital outlay amounts that DOTD does not oversee were mistakenly added to program totals — and said six items were changed. Representative Wiley moved to approve the aviation priority list; the chair recorded no objections on the transcript and declared the program approved.
Ending: DOTD said the corrections were mathematical and limited in scope; the committee did not request further line-item discussion during the March 24 meeting.
