This post is a comment moved from the post  RECORD KEEPING.

Just goes to show that Mo-Dot and the FAA have no intention of compliance to 5190.6b. 

If they educated the sponsors and helped them to comply, airports around the state would be thriving. It would be like taking a person off of the street and saying here's an airplane go figure out how to fly it and just do whatever you want.

Pilots and mechanics on the other hand are required to take an enormous amount of training and stay current with that training. The rule book is 3" thick and we are required to know every rule that pertains to the type of license we have. Safety is our number one concern. We play by the rules of the FAA for a reason, to stay alive and fly another day. We self comply to these rules because we have respect and integrity.

So is it the sponsors fault that the states airports are in shambles or is it Modot and the FAA for not doing their job as they do with pilots and mechanics?

The city of St Clair screams that the airport is loosing money but is the city collecting rent on the new subdivision that is using airport road (federal property) for its entrance? Free rent would be great anywhere. No where to be found in the record keeping. Is the city paying fair market value for the lift station? How much is it receiving for the cell phone towers in town? Really? how many low profile billboards could be erected in the safe zone along 44 at how much a month? $21,000 a year in hangar rent. Maybe they should open a bank with all the extra money they would bring in instead of closing the airport.

The only expenses are lights(with now some missing), grass cutting, snow plowing and some admin expenses. What is the real cost of the insurance?

Is it too much to ask that Mo-Dot, the FAA and the City of St Clair all just do their jobs, then make a decision to close the airport?