The Carroll County Airport Commission met on March 21, with some major projects coming with the approaching warmer weather.
The airport has re-acquired part of a large, leased property at the west end of the airport, and an existing hangar will be demolished to make way for a new six-bay hangar. A local contractor will remove the building, and the construction contractor will remove the existing concrete pad. Tenants with airplanes inside that hangar have been removing them in advance of the demolition.
Consulting engineer Joey Wallace outlined the timetable for state and federal grants supporting the hangar project.
Construction at the end of the airport will further deteriorate Tri-State Rd., which provides access to that area. Since that is a private road, the county cannot maintain it, and the commission may have to spread a load of base rock to facilitate construction.
In other business:
- Fuel sales have been low in the past month, similar to last year.
- Weather equipment at the airport recorded a maximum gust of 58 mph the week before the meeting. Chair Dave Teigen called that “a pretty good breeze.”
- With a new land lease signed, commissioners discussed the need to move an electrical transformer closer to the site of that new hangar. The commission will bear the cost of digging a ditch and installing the conduit, but the move will benefit the new tenant and other proposed development in the same area.
- Justice of the Peace Matt Phillips acts as liaison between the commission and the quorum court. He had promised to check into the possibility of having the county assist with snow removal. Phillips said the county could only do that in case of an emergency, and commissioner Chase Tresler repeated his contention that the airport would need a reliable contractor.