AIREVAC
Another St. Clair based business is leaving town. What is really sad about AirEvac leaving is
that the city spent a lot of money to put Airevac on the field. They built a hangar with publically donated
and city funds. This hangar came to
about $22,000. Then the city spent somewhere in the
neighborhood of $30,000 to make airport improvements, in order for AirEvac to
build its new maintenance facility. If you add the $100 a month that it takes to
provide free water and sewer services, add another $10,000. (The $10,000, for water and sewer cost, has
been put into to operating expenses of the airport, and has been subsidized by
the fixed wing tenants.)
In nine years, the AirEvac Rent would be $32,000, about half
of the city’s investment in the AirEvac Project.
What happened to the idea that AirEvac was going to stay on
site? We will find a place for AirEvac
in the city, no matter what the FAA says.
The AirEvac project was put together before Blum, and would
have eventually made a profit for the airport.
This was done with the thinking that AirEvac was here for the long
term. Now we are looking at a huge
operating loss for the airport, due to mis-management by the city. But what we are looking at is premeditated
mismanagement by the city, just to satisfy Ron Blum’s personal vengeance against
the airport.
Without AirEvac's rent, and their only being five tenants, Ron Blum has finally after six years, sent the airport into the red.
This should find it's way into the stupid paper, of course the editor would censor the free speech of the citizens of Franklin County.
ReplyDeleteSo much for St.Clair being the Repair Station for AirEvac's fleet of copters. When they move, I want to rent their space at the price the City is charging AirEvac.
ReplyDeleteThis is the same strategy being pursued at Huron County Airport, Norwalk, Ohio. Run the airport into the ground. Spend money recjlessly and then claim that the airport is no longer self-sufficient so you can justify shutting it down.
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