The Monmouth City Council on Monday approved a few engineering agreements for the airport.
City Administrator Lew Steinbrecher tells WGIL that Hanson Engineering, the city’s airport engineering firm, has been retained by the city to help with the preparation of the Airport Layout Plan and a five-year Capital Improvement Plan.
Aldermen approved a $33,457 engineering agreement with Hanson for the addition of a paved “apron” that will help transport plans from the rear side of the hanger to the tarmac.
“So we entered into a professional services agreement with Hanson to do the design and bidding on that — as well as construction and inspection of that,” Steinbrecher told WGIL on Tuesday. “That engineering work plus the actual cost of the construction of the apron around back are all 90 percent reimbursable with federal aviation funds.”
Also approved was an engineering agreement with Hanson for $39,000 to engineer a new main entrance and parking lot at the airport.
The main entrance is a road that comes off of North 6th Street, runs by Fareway and Hirschbach trucking, and along the south side of the airport lot.
“There’s no paved parking lot for vehicles so we want to do the entrance road and a small parking lot so that vehicles can access that hangar. And eventually, probably a long-term plan, eventually, will be to build a terminal or an office building there to facilitate communications or a pilot’s lounge. Those kinds of things.”
Steinbrecher told the city council that the engineering and construction for that project were also 90 percent reimbursable through federal funds.
