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Residents urge Dinwiddie supervisors to remove nonresident airport authority members amid allegations of grant-assurance violations
Summary
Multiple residents told the Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisors they want nonresident appointees removed from the Dinwiddie Airport Industrial Authority and warned an aviation attorney’s report could mean the authority violated federal grant assurances, risking more than $3 million in federal grants and tenant losses.
Several residents urged the Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 15 to stop appointing nonresidents to the Dinwiddie Airport Industrial Authority and to reconsider reappointing a current board member.
Dennis Harry and other speakers said local representation matters for authority oversight and asked the board not to reappoint Johnny Mason Jr. to the airport authority. "As residents of Dinwiddie County, we humbly request that we remove all non residents of Dinwiddie County from the Airport Authority Board," Dennis Harry told the board.
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