Saturday 31 December 2016

Aviation commissioners meet for final time in 2016

GREENSBURG — The Greensburg Board of Aviation Commissioners met for the last time in 2016 on Tuesday night at City Hall.

President Jon Dooley, Vice President Bill Ernstes, Airport Manager Jerry Scheidler and board individuals Don Whipple and Jim Pruett were in participation. Board part Oris Reece was truant from the meeting.

The Board was given a funds upgrade for the three separate records kept up by the Airport with no remarkable changes to answer to any of the three records. An aggregate of $291,423.02 in oversaw between the three air terminal records.

Exchanges amid the meeting fixated for the most part on talks of an allow from the United States Division of Fish and Wildlife.

"We connected for an allow to control untamed life at the airplane terminal, for example, feathered creatures," Airport Manager Jerry Scheidler clarified. "It permits us to go out and shoot weapons to drive them away or whatever is essential."

President Jon Dooley clarified that at the Greensburg Municipal Airport there are infrequent feathered creature strikes, however "nothing Captain Sully like."

Scheidler says that the most serious issue is not by any stretch of the imagination flying creature strikes at the nearby air terminal, however runs of geese that get a kick out of the chance to hinder, on the runway.

With the allow, the air terminal can utilize something like a 12-gage shotgun to drive away the untamed life, however as indicated by Ernstes, commonly the airplane terminal makes due with a truck horn or other commotion producer.

The Board additionally collectively affirmed its typical installment of bills.

The Board of Aviation Commissioners will meet again at 7 p.m. on Jan. 23 at City Hall.

Contact: James Howell Jr., 812-663-3111 x 7011; james.howell@greensburgdailynews.com

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