He said the Brookings City Council will present the issue to their budget committee before voting. So far, Cooley said, the Crescent City Council and Del Norte County Board of Supervisors each agreed to contribute $77,000 toward the project. Construction is scheduled to begin next year. The airport’s incandescent lighting system will also be replaced with LED lights, according to Cooley. The project consists of removing the top layer of asphalt on the runway and replacing it with new pavement. The Airport Authority is expected to contribute between $400,000 and $460,000 toward the project. Ninety-five percent of the project will be paid for through Federal Aviation Administration grant dollars and entitlement fees as well as passenger facility charges, according to Cooley. The mill and overlay project for the runway is expected to cost between $8 million and $9 million. In addition to Crescent City and Curry County, airport authority members include Del Norte County, the City of Brookings, Elk Valley Rancheria and the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation. If all six member agencies that make up the Border Coast Regional Airport Authority contribute $77,000, the authority will be able to meet the 5 percent match required on a grant-funded project to rehabilitate Runway 18-36, Cooley told commissioners. Two days after he received a funding commitment from the Crescent City Council, Airport Authority Director Ryan Cooley made a similar pitch to the Curry County Board of Commissioners. “If we were to do $38,000 twice, where would that come from? Maybe the two of you have an idea where to pull that money from, but right now I’m unsure.” “I don’t know that we have a thorough understanding of what our balances are and what our deficits are,” he told his colleagues. Stating that the airport is essential for public safety and acknowledging a proposal from the Border Coast Regional Airport Authority director to divide that $77,000 request into two payments, Alcorn asked where those dollars would come from. Though they didn’t object to kicking in $77,000 for a runway rehabilitation project at the Del Norte County Regional Airport, Curry County commissioners faced an important question - where would the money come from?Ĭommissioner Brad Alcorn, who has been on the Curry County budget committee for about four years, said Wednesday he anticipates a general fund deficit of about $2 million this year.
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