T or C Municipal Airport seeks a new layout plan for future growth and funding

Aerial view of the T or C Municipal Airport, image taken from Delta Airport Consultant's documents included in the city packet

A new airport layout plan is needed, but nearly $600,000 worth? Why spend time and money on future growth and development if there is no water out there and new water appropriations are limited due to a closed basin? Shouldn't water availability be studied first?

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T or C budget – a city dependent on utility fees while it chases the future

A tax collector at work, from an illustration by Henry Holiday in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark," 1876, image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Lewis Carroll's search for the snark---sailing across the ocean with a blank map in pursuit of what may be illusory--is similar to the city budget and its blank underpinnings and deficit spending. Yet talk of expansion is rife. The city commission evidently believes in snarks.

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