Despite a change in management and a $2.39 million debt to other city funds, City Manager Robb Corbett said Eastern Oregon Regional Airport’s woes remain fixable.
The airport is looking for ways to ease its financial problems without the benefit of a full-time airport manager. Former manager Larry Dalrymple retired Dec. 31 and Wayne Green has since started working part-time as interim manager. Green still retains his job as associate city engineer.
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E. Ore. regional airport bears down on weeds
The Pendleton airport is spraying to prevent weeds on the runways instead of waiting to kill them once they've sprung up.
The East Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/XWOiaY)
weeds are a problem the city is addressing at the Eastern Oregon
Regional Airport, where there's a $2.4 million debt to other city funds
and a change of management under way.
City Manager Robb Corbett told the airport commission Thursday the airport's problems are fixable.
Airport
secretary Patti Johlke said the Federal Aviation Administration in 2011
admonished the airport about weeds, and they were quickly removed. But,
she said, the airport has to spray to prevent them.
The worker
who did daily runway inspections retired last week. Corbett said he's
working to replace him, and someone from another department may do the
spraying.
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Information from: East Oregonian, http://www.eastoregonian.info
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KPDT
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