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Council authorizes request for qualifications for airport consultant to plan runway rehab
Summary
Council authorized a request for qualifications (RFQ) for an architect/engineering firm to program and design a runway rehabilitation project at the Pontiac airport, anticipating state and federal funding and a 5% local match on future construction funding.
The council authorized staff to issue a request for qualifications for an architect and engineering firm to program and design a runway rehabilitation at the Pontiac airport, necessary to access state and federal funding for the project.
Staff said the city’s current airport consultant, CMT, noted the runway needs full rehabilitation rather than crack sealing, and that the work will require programming with IDOT Aeronautics to use anticipated state and federal monies. Staff described the typical funding match as 90% federal, 5% state and 5% local for projects of this type (staff said that the local share has in practice been 5 percent for certain projects); they also noted this is not a fiscal-year-2025 project but needs early programming.
Council approved the RFQ authorization on a roll call vote. Staff and councilors discussed that CMT will remain involved with projects already underway and that the RFQ will enable the city to select an architect/engineer to program the rehabilitation in coordination with IDOT Aeronautics.
