Grants Will Pay For Entire Airport Runway 18/36 Project
September 3, 2020 at 12:53 a.m.
Grants Will Pay For Entire Airport Runway 18/36 Project
By David [email protected]
The release said the airport will receive $1,134,772 for the rehabilitation and rebuilding of the north/south runway. The amount in the news release came from a grant advance notice from the U.S. Department of Transportation to Young. The figure should have been $1,927,524.
Warsaw Airport Manager Nick King said Wednesday, “The ballpark number for construction was about $1.9 million, then there was like another $160,000 in engineering, bid process, all that kind of stuff. The total was (just over) $2 million. The Feds are covering all but $90,800. The state is picking up the rest of that, INDOT Aviation is. So the total grant is just over $2 million between the two, but the $1.91 (million) that was announced (Tuesday), that’s from the FAA and then the rest of the project is being picked up by INDOT.”
The funding for the project comes from taxes collected on aviation fuel sales.
“So that entire project is being funded by fuel sales, not just at Warsaw, but that’s a big pot all airports pay into,” King said.
Just like the fuel tax helps pay for roads, the aviation fuel tax pays for projects like Warsaw’s.
King said he was excited the whole project was being paid for by grants.
“It won’t cost the city anything,” he said.
At the Aug. 11 Warsaw Board of Aviation Commissioners meeting, updates to the runway 18/36 extension and the power line lowering projects were provided by Nathan Lienhart, project manager for CHA, the airport’s aviation design and planning consulting firm.
On the runway project, Lienhart said, “We were able to secure the funding needed at a little bit lower level than what we were hoping, but, nevertheless, we are still able to get the project completed to a level that we think is still in the spirit of the original plan and design.”
The aviation board approved a change order, which reduced the contract amount for Phend & Brown to $1,729,311.76.
The release said the airport will receive $1,134,772 for the rehabilitation and rebuilding of the north/south runway. The amount in the news release came from a grant advance notice from the U.S. Department of Transportation to Young. The figure should have been $1,927,524.
Warsaw Airport Manager Nick King said Wednesday, “The ballpark number for construction was about $1.9 million, then there was like another $160,000 in engineering, bid process, all that kind of stuff. The total was (just over) $2 million. The Feds are covering all but $90,800. The state is picking up the rest of that, INDOT Aviation is. So the total grant is just over $2 million between the two, but the $1.91 (million) that was announced (Tuesday), that’s from the FAA and then the rest of the project is being picked up by INDOT.”
The funding for the project comes from taxes collected on aviation fuel sales.
“So that entire project is being funded by fuel sales, not just at Warsaw, but that’s a big pot all airports pay into,” King said.
Just like the fuel tax helps pay for roads, the aviation fuel tax pays for projects like Warsaw’s.
King said he was excited the whole project was being paid for by grants.
“It won’t cost the city anything,” he said.
At the Aug. 11 Warsaw Board of Aviation Commissioners meeting, updates to the runway 18/36 extension and the power line lowering projects were provided by Nathan Lienhart, project manager for CHA, the airport’s aviation design and planning consulting firm.
On the runway project, Lienhart said, “We were able to secure the funding needed at a little bit lower level than what we were hoping, but, nevertheless, we are still able to get the project completed to a level that we think is still in the spirit of the original plan and design.”
The aviation board approved a change order, which reduced the contract amount for Phend & Brown to $1,729,311.76.
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