Apalachicola airport needs to repaint its runways

                The Apalachicola airport just had its annual inspection, and it passed, but there is some work that needs to be done.

During the inspection it was noted that some of the runways need repainting, which according to County planner Alan Pierce costs about 200 thousand dollar per runway.

Airport manager Jason Puckett said some of the runways were downgraded from good to fair or from fair to poor.

He added that most of the other issues were small like cutting grass and cutting back brushlines.

The Department of Transportation was at the inspection and hopefully be able to provide some money to pay for the runway remarking.

Commissioners said they would like the airport manager to begin pushing harder to bring new businesses to the airport and also asked that more be done to train local people for airport related jobs so local can benefit when businesses do move here.

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