Chesapeake council tonight will vote on airport authority debt

Posted to: Chesapeake News

By Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 9, 2008

Facing costly legal and stormwater bills, the Chesapeake Airport Authority is asking the Chesapeake City Council to restructure its debt to the city.

Tonight, the council will vote on whether to give the authority more time to pay off more than $600,000 the city loaned.

The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in City Hall, 306 Cedar Road.

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To the Chesapeake City Council (5-4)

Submitted by RicknChes on Wed, 09/10/2008 at 3:27 pm.

Hey! I'm like everyone else in Chesapeake are facing costly stormwater bills as well. Why would the Airport Authority think that if you can't pay your bills you can simply as the Council to restructure, ie. forgive, this bill? Here's a solution for the AA. Just throw Patty some $$ and ask them to put it to a vote . Patty is the tie breaker on THIS Council (5-4). Chesapeake can't wait until 2010.

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Part of the problem

Submitted by DUDLEY90978 on Tue, 09/09/2008 at 2:56 pm.

Imagine that - one of the costliest litigants to the City wants you to think he's our savior. Right - Mr. Leonard - stay in Suffolk

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This is another BAD IDEA!!!

Submitted by Roger Leonard on Tue, 09/09/2008 at 1:20 pm.

This is but another in a long line of bad ideas to support a group that has been proven to be less than honest with the City, Citizens of Chesapeake, and the Flying Community. In 2002, I won the only PART-16 Federal Complaint ever in the 400-year history of the Commonwealth against this group. The Federal Government, the Chesapeake City Auditor Jay Poole, and even many on the City Council had to admit that this group was untruthful and deceitful to say the least.

I would also have all note: that the Airport Authority tried to hide the facts that these Debts even existed and when exposed to the City Council in 2000, they finally agreed to pay them back... To assume now that it is proper to “restructure this debt” (another way of saying to forgive it) is not the right recourse and in fact both repugnant and dishonest to the taxpaying citizens.

Then there is the dishonesty involved in the way that the Airport has twisted the truth about its expansion plans as found in the recent law-suits brought by neighboring property owners. Don’t trust these guys, or you will be taken again, for big bucks!!!

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Chesapeake Airport

Submitted by Prairiedog on Tue, 09/09/2008 at 8:19 am.

Sooooo....this is not the goldmine the cheaspeake authority said it was? Well, this is what you get from any authority where citizens or city councils have no control over. SEPTA, HRT, NRHA, PRHA, etc, etc, etc. Sell the airport to someone who can make a profit from it and share with the city.

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