The Columbia Regional
Airport Advisory Board met Wednesday afternoon in the north terminal
conference room to discuss ongoing projects and the new location of
future meetings.
The airport manager Don Elliot reviewed two
airport projects which are almost complete. The new taxi pavement
project will be completed in the next few days after inspection and the
new fencing around the runways will be completed in September.
Elliot
also brought up the plan for a new project on the 1331 runway. The
project idea is to lengthen the runway and pave it with material that
can hold more weight. This project will help the airport to bring in
more jets since the runway will now be able to hold the weight.
“What
we are planning to do in the future is have a longer concrete runways
that will be wider, it will be able to handle the weights of the
regional jets,” said Elliot.
The project is still in the planning
stage but the board hopes to have a plan within the next year. Elliot
said he hopes the overall project will be completed in about five years.
Along
with airport plans, the board had to discuss a possible new meeting
location for these public discussions since the current room is not in
compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“The city of
course is very particular about ADA compliancy, we want to be to be in
full compliance and so we advised the airport advisory board that they
needed to look for a new meeting spot,” said Columbia Public Works
spokesperson Steven Sapp.
A previous complaint from a Missouri
resident brought this inadequate meeting area to the city’s attention.
The board is now making an effort to find a new meeting location that is
ADA approved.
Some locations that were mentioned in this meeting
were the city hall board rooms, the Boone County Bank, and Sophia’s.
Next month’s meeting will still be held in the north terminal conference
room again where they will further discuss a permanent and adequate
meeting room for the future.
Source: http://kbia.org
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