Airport budget includes revenues for 2019-2020
The Fort Dodge Regional Airport has a proposed budget that’s more than $600,000, but city taxpayers won’t be footing the entire bill.
Rhonda Chambers, the airport’s director of aviation, told the City Council Monday that the facility will generate $360,836 in revenue to support itself.
That means $252,668 will come from city property tax dollars.
The total proposed airport budget is $613,504 for 2019-2020.
That’s up 1 percent from the current budget of $607,968.
The budget envisions buying a new snow plow, a new four-wheel-drive truck and a car. Chambers said grants will pay 79 percent of the costs of buying that equipment.
She said $14 million worth of improvement projects have been completed at the airport since 2011, with the Federal Aviation Administration paying 90 percent of those costs.
Other 2019-2020 proposed budgets reviewed by the council Monday included:
• Fort Dodge Public Library, $752,062, down from $791,850;
• Convention and Visitors Bureau, $250,000, down from $260,039;
• Blanden Memorial Art Museum, $220,350, down from $248,750;
• Karl King Municipal Band, $38,000, unchanged from the current year.
The city’s budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 must be submitted to the state in mid-March.