Business View Magazine Jan-2019

91 jobs with a payroll of $15.8 million and an annual economic output of $42.9 million. Meanwhile, general upkeep and maintenance tops the agenda.“We just completed almost four miles of perimeter fencing this past summer,”Shahan recounts.“In December,we kicked off Phase One of our big pavement improvement project.We’re reha- bilitating our primary runway, all five taxiways, and the north hangar ramp.This is a $5.2 million project. Engineering and design for Phase Two of our pave- ment project will be completed in 2019. Construc- tion will start in 2020 or possibly 2021–we’ll do our secondary runway, the south apron and south ramp. So, basically, over the next four to five years, virtually all of the 120 acres of aviation pavement on the Airport will be rehabilitated.” “We’re also upgrading our facilities,”he continues. “We’re getting ready to remodel and redo the con- trol tower. It was built in 2006 and hasn’t seen much