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Juneau airport presents FY27 budget, warns urgent need to secure a second ARFF truck
Summary
Airport manager Andres Delgado told a joint meeting of the Assembly finance committee and airport board that FY26 is slightly under budget but the airport faces an urgent safety and operational risk: two of three aircraft rescue firefighting (ARFF) trucks were unavailable recently, leaving a single in-service truck and prompting proposals to forward-fund a second vehicle and seek PFC reimbursement.
Juneau Airport Manager Andres Delgado told a joint meeting of the Special Assembly Finance Committee and the Juneau Airport Board that the airportis projecting a modest FY26 underspend and moving into FY27 with several planned adjustments, but a shortage of aircraft rescue firefighting (ARFF) vehicles creates a near-term operational risk.
Delgado said FY26 is approximately $110,000 under budget, largely because a mild winter reduced the airportuse of runway deicer. He reported changes to the airportfinancial model that reassign benefits among user groups and explained an expected federal grant of about $1 million to fund runway and taxiway painting under the 2024 FAA reauthorization.
But the most urgent issue, Delgado said, concerns the ARFF fleet. "We had, really no…
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