2019 appropriation launched airport project; facility now handles about 840 monthly flights and 2.2 million visitors

A staff member said Governor Herbert signed an appropriation bill on April 1, 2019, that provided $9,000,000 in state funding and $4,300,000 in county funding to start the airport project, and that since the facility opened in July 2022 it has seen about 2.2 million visitors and handled roughly 840 flights last month to 16 nonstop destinations.

The staff member said the project began with limited service. "When we started the project, we had 112 flights a month in and out of the airport to three or four destinations," the staff member said. "And since then we haven't looked back." The speaker gave the April 1, 2019 signing date as the funding start point.

According to the staff member's account, the facility opened in July 2022 and has since processed approximately 2,200,000 visitors through the building. The speaker said the airport handled about 840 flights in the most recent month, serving 16 nonstop destinations. The speaker did not provide the airport's name or additional operational details.

The meeting record did not include any vote or formal action on the funding or operations during the remarks, and no further documents or contracts were cited on the record at the time of the presentation.

Details given at the meeting included dollar amounts, dates and service counts reported by the staff member; the speaker did not specify other funding sources, the airport's formal name, or future capital or operating plans.