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Work group debates system-management approach and asks legislature to enable cooperation
Summary
Members urged the legislature to authorize and fund system-level cooperation among airports, surface transportation and transit operators; consultants will analyze legal/regulatory options to inform the group's recommendations.
Multiple members said the state must both authorize cooperation among airports and provide money to implement system-level projects. One participant summarized the legislative ask succinctly: "both authorize and mandate cooperation amongst the transportation providers," arguing that statutory direction plus funding would allow cross‑airport and multimodal investments.
Discussion covered the tradeoffs between maintaining local airport decisionmaking and creating statewide mechanisms to coordinate funding and operations. Participants flagged FAA constraints on airport fund usage and said any state-level design should account for FAA grant-assurance rules; consultants were asked to produce a legal/regulatory memo outlining what is permitted today and where legislative change would be needed.
