FAA proposes bundling Bowers Field projects into $12–15 million package; county faces concentrated cost share
County staff told commissioners the FAA wants to bundle several Bowers Field projects — parallel taxiway, hangar taxi-lane expansion, runway lighting and runway narrowing — into a single $12–15 million project, which would concentrate the county’s 5–10% local match into one or two years and could mean an estimated $750,000–$1.5 million local share.
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Josh Fredericks, Kittitas County Public Works Director, briefed the board on the Bowers Field capital improvement plan and recent discussions with the Federal Aviation Administration. Projects under discussion include a hangar taxi-lane expansion, a parallel taxiway (to remove the need for back-taxiing on the runway), new runway lighting, and narrowing of the runway surface.
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