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Pickens County creates airport advisory board, appoints initial members and declines state fence contract for now
Summary
After state law dissolved the county's airport authority, the Pickens County Board of Commissioners created a seven-member airport advisory board, approved initial appointees and voted not to execute a $1 million state fence grant contract to prioritize other airport capital projects.
The Pickens County Board of Commissioners approved an ordinance establishing a seven-member airport advisory board to advise the board on operations at the Pickens County Airport and appointed an initial set of members. The board also decided not to execute a state contract to accept $750,000 in matching Georgia Airport Aid funding for perimeter fencing, citing competing capital priorities.
"The governor did sign that into law," Planning and Development Director Bill Wood said, referring to the state action that dissolved the former Pickens County Airport Authority and returned operational control to the county. Wood described the advisory board as a mechanism for…
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