McPHERSON — County staff told the Board of Commissioners they are considering reducing the planned sizes of the McPherson Airport fuel tanks to better match current fuel usage and lower project cost.

Susan, the presenter, said the current design proposed a 12,000‑gallon avgas tank and a 10,000‑gallon Jet A tank — capacities she described as legacies from a period of heavier airport activity. Susan proposed smaller tanks, suggesting “maybe 8,000 and a 5,000 gallon tank” to better fit present needs and reduce cost.

She referenced a recently designed and bid fuel farm at Eureka with an 8,000‑gallon and 4,000‑gallon configuration that had a total budget of $700,000, and contrasted that to McPherson’s project, which staff described as currently estimated at about $1,000,000.

Susan also summarized the proposed mix of funding discussed in the packet: “KDOT funding as proposed, total cost would be $3,389,000, KDOT share $350,000 with our local share being 39,000, then the rest of the project is planned to be FAA funded.” In another line-item summary staff said a portion of project cost was $611,000, with a local share of $10,000 and Build Kansas funds of $20,550; staff summarized the total local share as $49,000 under the current packet documents.

Staff noted that if the county changes tank sizes it must resubmit numbers to state and federal agencies. “You have to resubmit that to state and federal if you're putting in small tanks,” one participant said; Susan replied that revising would “just be a matter of changing some numbers.”

Staff asked the board to sign paperwork to proceed with the application, but the presenter also asked to defer final action and requested to revisit the packet the following Monday to confirm numbers. The board agreed to revisit the item; no formal vote on the fuel-farm design or final funding commitment appears in the transcript.

The transcript includes references to specific staff (Caleb and Kayla) and to the need to review recent fuel-sale records to confirm appropriate tank sizing but does not include those records in the meeting discussion.