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Airport board approves BIL-funded change order to add jet bridges and adopts five-year capital plan
Summary
The Hilton Head Island Airport Board approved three capital items Nov. 21: acceptance of an ARW hangar grant, Change Order No. 1 for the HDX terminal using a $5,000,000 BIL grant to add three jet bridges in phase 1, and the airport's five-year capital improvement program to be shared with FAA and state officials.
The Hilton Head Island Airport Board on Nov. 21 approved multiple capital actions, including acceptance of a hangar grant for the Executive Airport (ARW), a $5,000,000-funded change order for the HDX terminal that adds jet bridges in phase one, and the draft airport capital improvement program (CIP) for submission to the FAA and state officials.
During new business, the board moved and voted to accept the grant for the ARW hangar; the motion passed with no recorded opposition. Chair (the meeting chair) then opened discussion of Change Order No. 1 for HDX terminal improvements, which staff described as an additive, rather than corrective, work authorization enabled by a federal BIL grant. The director said the BIL award allows the airport to include all three jet bridges in phase one of the terminal project (instead of only one), and to accelerate some security-checkpoint work and apron lighting that otherwise would have waited for phase two. "We applied for that BIL grant and we received a $5,000,000 grant," the director said, presenting the change-order details to the board.
Board members moved to approve the change order and the motion passed. The board then considered the airport's five-year CIP for both Hilton Head Island Airport and the Executive Airport; the document, presented in draft form, will be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration and copied to the state for review and subsequent edits. The board voted to approve the CIP.
The votes recorded in the meeting transcript were procedural approvals; the board did not record individual roll-call tallies in the transcript excerpts. Meeting minutes and the official docket will reflect the formal vote record.
What happens next: staff will advance the change-order work in coordination with the terminal contractor and continue CIP edits ahead of final adoption in the spring and FAA/state submission. The director said committee-level discussions on financing for related projects (including an executive hangar financing project) are scheduled for the coming week.
Speakers quoted or referenced in this article are identified in the meeting transcript as Chair and Director. No individual board member roll-call votes were captured in the transcript excerpt provided.
