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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.

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