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Marion County approves ALDOT airport lighting grant application to replace outdated runway lights
Summary
The Marion County Commission approved Resolution 2025-10-1 to apply to the Alabama Department of Transportation for airport improvement funding to replace runway lighting with LED fixtures; county staff and a consultant recommended applying, but transcript numbers on project costs were inconsistent.
The Marion County Commission approved Resolution 2025-10-1 authorizing application for airport improvement funding from the Alabama Department of Transportation to replace outdated runway lighting at the county airport.
County staff said the airport’s lighting system is outdated and that consultant Garver recommended applying for state funding to upgrade to LED fixtures. "We have got to replace the lighting. It's an outdated system and this is upgraded out to L.E.D. lighting," a county staff member said during the discussion.
County staff also told commissioners that the state was not optimistic the grant would be awarded this fiscal year but recommended proceeding with the application. The transcript records conflicting cost figures: the staff member said "our portion of this grant would be roughly $919,950" and immediately afterward said "total, I think, is 798,000 on the grant," and that the county share would be about 5% of the total. Those figures are inconsistent as stated in the transcript; the meeting record did not reconcile the discrepancy or provide an authoritative project cost breakdown.
The commission approved the resolution by voice vote; no roll-call tally or named vote counts appear in the transcript. County staff said the Alabama Department of Transportation was processing approvals and that the county might learn in the same week whether the project is included in this fiscal year or deferred to fiscal year 2027.
The transcript did not record further details about the requested grant amount, the airport’s engineering estimate, or a final county appropriation plan if the grant is awarded.
