The $1M project is funded by a federal grant
Blog note: this article references a grand jury report.
LAKEPORT — A contract for the rehabilitation of the Lampson Field Airport runway may be awarded Tuesday by the Lake County Board of Supervisors.
With an offer at just over $1 million, Salt Lake City, Utah company Maxwell Asphalt, Inc. was the lowest bidder for the project, which will be funded completely through a federal airport improvement program. Maxwell Asphalt’s bid comes just $1,000 below the project’s engineer estimate.
If awarded the contract, Maxwell Asphalt will be required to complete the work within 60 days of receiving notice to proceed.
Lake County Public Works Director Scott De Leon writes that “the scope of the project is to make minor repairs to the existing asphalt, induing crack repairs, place a slurry seal for pavement preservation over the runway and taxiway, and apply new pavement stripes and markings.”
The project could be one in a series of improvements to the Lampson Field Airport—Lake County’s only general aviation airport—which were mentioned in a Lake County Civil Grand Jury interim report released March 14 that recommended improvements be made and grant funds be applied for by the County of Lake regarding the airport.
The county opened bids for the project on March 28, and Maxwell Asphalt was the only bidder.
The federal airport improvement grant program through which the project is being funded provides grant monies to airports like Lampson which are listed in a federal registry called the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Over the next five years, this plan predicts that Lampson Field will have $2,216,312 in grant-eligible improvement projects.
July 13, 2019
Lake County Record Bee
By Aidan Freeman
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