2011-07-01 Support FAA funding - Danville Regional AirportPITTSYLVANIA COUNTY 6OARll OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION 2011-07-O1
VIRGINIA: At the adjourned meeting of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors held on Tuesday,
June 21, 2011, in the General District Courtroom of the Edwin R. Shields Courthouse Addition, the
following resolution was presented and adopted:
WHEREAS, Pittsylvania County has worked in partnership with the City of Danville over many
years to continue the support of the Danville Regional Airport and that the critical importance of the
transportation and economic development in this region; and
WHEREAS, the current construction of the Danville Regional Airport requires renovations to move
a highpoint and visual deficiency in the runway; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to work with the City of Danville and
the Danville Airport Commission to provide 95% of the required funding necessary to do the renovations at
the Danville Regional Airport for shortening the runway by 600 feet to 5,900 feet and to reduce the landing
capacity from 120,000 pounds to 65,000 pounds while narrowing the runway from 150 feet to 100 feet; and
WHEREAS, this is a significant project requiring substantial rehabilitation of the Danville Airport
and the closing of the primary runway during this construction that is imperative that the project could be
completed in a single grant in order to avoid jeopardizing any additional impacts on the economic
development and transportation needs of the community; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
submits its full support of the City of Danville and the Danville Regional Airport Commission for the Federal
Aviation Administration funding necessary to provide for the engineering and financial construction
expenses necessary to provide the rehabilitation of a 5,900 foot runway under a single grant for the Danville
Regional Airport; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors request the County Administrator to
forward copies of this resolution to the County's Congressional Representatives seeking their support and
insuring that the Federal Aviation Administration funds a single grant for the rehabilitation project of the
Danville Regional Airport.
Given under my hand this 5°i day of July, 2011.
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Tim R. Barber, Chairman
Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
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William D. Sle per, Clerk
Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors