By Gary Ogle
gogle@wbcowqel.com
Port Bucyrus Airport is getting a facelift and Kokosing Construction is getting the payday. The Bucyrus Board of Control awarded Kokosing the contract Friday morning to repave and repair the airport’s hanger taxiway.
The contract is for $140,506.50. Bucyrus Service-Safety Director Jeff Wagner said Kokosing is expected to start work and will have 19 days in which to complete the project.
The project is being funded primarily by an FAA grant.
“Very minimal,” said Wagner about the amount of money the city will actually pay to have the work done. “It’s a 90/10 split.”
A significant portion of the Bucyrus match was taken care by a donation of adjacent land to the airport facility by the Hord family who is one of the primary airport tenants.
“I think it’s just a necessary repair,” Wagner said. “This will service their (tenants’) drives and approaches.”
The contract calls for the airport’s hanger taxiway to be repaired by repaving, sealing cracks, removing bad pavement installing a storm pipe , seeding, pavement marking and a trench cut in the existing pavement.