Paperwork dominated the regular monthly meeting of the Clarksdale Coahoma County Airport Board on Monday, May 14.
Board Chairman David Huggins offered corrections to the official minutes of the April meeting of the group, including a notation that the board had paid for repairing several skylights at the airport’s south end hangar when in fact the repairs were paid for by Red Panther Aero, the company responsible for the skylights.
After making another minor change to the printed minutes, Huggins called for a motion to approve the minutes “with the aforementioned corrections” and the motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously.
Huggins explained the procedure involving project matches, which are used to pay for airport projects.
“The city and county join together to provide money to pay for construction costs for airport projects,” Huggins said. “The cost of most projects is six-figures and we usually set a figure for each entity to pay and these are called ‘matching funds.’”
He said the payments are usually spread out over a period of time.
Sometimes, the amounts are, for one reason or another, not paid right away or on schedule and suddenly are discovered and due.
“When this happens, arrangements are made and payments are made,” Huggins said.
The Coahoma County Board of Supervisors made a payment of $2,895.79 on a project match that was discovered recently that brings them up to date on the project.
“Morgan (current County Administrator Morgan Wood) and Daniel (former County Administrator Daniel Vassel) have done a good job catching up on this,” Huggins said.
The board approved the financial report after Huggins explained that the board should pay the Delta Farm Store $542.44 to replace the airport’s alternator used for boosting planes off when necessary, and Cox Glass Company to replace glass broken by the board’s lawnmower while cutting grass.
“We could get reimbursed by insurance for this but I recommend we go ahead and pay Cox now,” Huggins stated. There was no dissension by members of the board.
The Board received $7,607.67 which put their main bank account at $65,540.84. The rental plane account stands at $21,751.23.
In response to a question regarding the main project for 2018, Huggins said he has asked Neil-Schaefer for an updated timeline for completing the paving around the new T-hangars and paving the new taxiway, but has not heard back from the engineering company.
“I’ll keep trying and bring you a report at next month’s meeting,” he said.
