Terminal building plan forges ahead

Proposed site plan for new terminal building at Nevada Municpal airport building.

By Ralph Pokorny

Nevada Daily Mail

The Nevada Airport Board continues its work on replacing the terminal building at the Nevada Municipal Airport. Wednesday, the board gave the site plan for the new building its blessing, sending the plan to the Federal Aviation Administration for its review of the facility.

West side of the new terminal buiding at the airport. The office will be located in this part of the building.

It will take 30-60 days to get FAA approval, Mark Mitchell, project manager, told the board.

"We can still go to bid, but can't start construction until the site plan is approved," Mitchell said.

He said a 60-day delay in construction will not be a problem.

South side of new terminal building at airport.

Mitchell told the board that the current estimated cost of the terminal designed by Jack Ball Architects P.C., is $351,000.

This is for a turnkey facility that will be ready to operate.

Monte Curtis told the board that he understands that there is another couple of thousand dollars in a pilot's fund that was set-up a couple years ago so individuals could make donations for the terminal building.

"That money was donated for furnishing the office when the idea of doing a new office first came up," Curtis said.

He said there is also another $400 that came from 3M.

The board also plans to reapply for a grant from the Richardson Foundation to furnish the building. Jim Adams, the original architect for the project, had personally secured a $40,000 grant from the Richardson Foundation to furnish the building, but when he was terminated from the project, that grant was also terminated.

The terms of the Community Development Block Grant that is paying for the new terminal do not allow any of the grant money to be used to furnish the building.

The terminal building will be completed whether the runway rehabilitation can be done or not, Mitchell told the board.

The city has already spent about $70,000 of that grant, and if the project is terminated, the city will probably have to repay that money to the state, he said.

Mitchell told the board that the city is holding its pre-bid meeting for the runway renovation with interested contractors at 10 a.m. on April 24 at the airport.