By Lora Neu | Eloy Enterprise
The FAA’s recent decision to close four airport control towers in Arizona may have prodded the City of Eloy to put management of the Eloy Municipal Airport on a high priority track.
The FAA funds 91 percent of all airport improvements, and if the Eloy Airport does not meet its obligations under FAA guidelines, that funding could go to another, more “worthy” airport.
In a City Council work study session last Tuesday, Eloy Airport Management Assistant Zenia Cornejo told the Council that, based on the 2012 FAA inspection, the city has been given recommendations by the FAA on what needs to be done at the airport.
“If we don’t follow through, they just hold back their money and they give it to other airports they deem worthy,” she said.
Cornejo pointed out that one of the smallest projects completed at the airport cost $250,000.
“Our priority right now is making sure we are in good standing with the FAA,” City Manager Ruth Osuna said, echoing Cornejo’s sense of urgency and plan of action.
To date, the airport has met two of 10 guidelines the FAA inspection found were not being met by the Eloy Municipal Airport.
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