Business View Magazine Feb 2023

218 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 Transportation, Lake Wales Municipal airport will be receiving two 12,000-gallon fuel tanks. “These tanks will also have the ability to offload fuel and so we will be purchasing fuel trucks. We also had a wildlife hazard assessment done, which has resulted in a few landscaping changes as well as the realization that we need to extend our security fence along the south side of the airport as well. That is all cattle ranches, and we have cattle fencing, but the assessment determined it was not sufficient,” she describes. “This coming year we also hope to take some of the extra funding and do some small security upgrades. We need a few more security cameras, and one of our gates is still a padlocked gate, which we would like to put onto our secure card entry system.” Lake Wales Airport has also recently completed a new master plan – which is now in the final stages of FAA revision. The master plan is largely