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Airport board revises advertising policy to authorize director approval with advertiser appeal to board
Summary
The board removed language requiring board approval for routine advertising, giving the airport director primary approval authority and adding an appeal path to the board; the subcommittee will return a clean copy for finalization.
The Grand County Airport Board voted to revise its advertising policy to streamline approvals: the airport director will have primary authority to approve advertisements under adopted standards, and advertisers denied by the director may appeal to the board.
The policy redline submitted by the advertising subcommittee had an internal inconsistency: an early section said advertisements required board approval, while later language gave removal/disposal authority to the director. Bill Holly, who co-wrote the redline, told the board that the subcommittee had worked through the draft and supported leaving operational approvals with airport management while creating an appellate route to the board for disputed denials.
A board member summarized the compromise: keep standards in the policy and the director approves routine postings; if an advertiser objects, the advertiser may appeal to the board. The board voted to remove references that required board approval in routine cases, add a short appeals paragraph and send a clean version back through the subcommittee and staff for final review.
The motion passed unanimously. Staff was directed to prepare a clean packet with the revised hierarchical ordering (director approval with a formal appeal to the board) and to circulate the revised draft to the commission and legal counsel as needed before submitting the final policy for county-level processing.
Next steps: subcommittee and staff will produce a clean copy for the next meeting and ensure the policy includes an appeals mechanism and clear responsibilities for director-level enforcement.
