Consideration and Approval of Grant Agreement:  A grant agreement between City of Flagstaff and the U.S. Department of Transportation,  Federal Aviation Administration and Arizona Department of Transportation Aeronautics Division for Design of mill and overlay of asphalt on Flagstaff Airport Runway 3/21 project.  (Approve asphalt overlay on airport runway).

The Flagstaff Airport is a single runway airport that supports commercial air service, business, medical, military and general aviation traffic for Flagstaff and the Northern Arizona Region. Most of this runway is over 10 years old and its current condition is deteriorating at a rapid pace. The Federal Aviation Administration recognizes the importance of this runway to our community and would be willing to provide Grant funding to reconstruct this runway. To do that they need for us to accept this Grant to complete the design for construction to the highest standards. This is critical to the goals of maintaining City infrastructure, as well as to the continued efforts for secondary air service and access.

The grant application cost estimate by our on-call engineering firm submitted on March 4th, 2015 in the amount of $293,500, State Share $14,407 and City Share amount of $14,408 for a  total design cost of $322,315 which includes an indirect cost of $23,488 (7.86%).

The Grant in the amount of $293,500 is for the design of the Runway 3/21 Mill and Overlay Project at Flagstaff Pulliam Airport.

The project is budgeted in account number 221-07-222-3332-0-4421 in the combined amount of $322,315. 
 

 

COUNCIL GOALS:
 Provide sustainable and equitable public facilities, services, and infrastructure systems in an efficient and effective manner to serve all population areas and demographics

No

• Approve the Grant Agreement which will provide funding to design the project.
• Not approve the Grant Agreement and the funds will be returned and project cancelled. If cancelled the runway will continue to deteriorate to the point of failure.

The Flagstaff Airport has been at its current location since 1948. It has one runway, 8,800 feet in length and 150 feet wide. The runway was extended in 2007 from 6,999 feet to its current length to allow for larger aircraft to land. It is constructed of asphalt to FAA AC 150/5300-13 standards. The single runway handles over 40,000 operations a year.

This project consists of removal and replacement of asphalt pavements the full length of the runway at the Flagstaff Airport. It will include milling of existing pavement and spreading the millings on the airport perimeter road. The runway will be repainted to the most current FAA standards.

This project will require the closure of the runway 24 hours per day for seven days. The Airlines have been notified of this project and Airport staff will notify and keep all tenants aware of the progress of his project which is anticipated in the 2016 calendar year construction season.

This project has been placed in the 2016 Capital Budget for the Airport.

The airport supports the community with air service, and medical flights. The maintenance of this runway is critical to continue support of the air service and medical users of the airport.

Inform - The project will require that all Flagstaff Airport users and stakeholders are informed of the need to complete this project on a time-sensitive schedule. Due to the limited season to apply asphalt in Flagstaff the project will be completed during the peak season of usage where the runway will be closed for a period of time so public notification will be a key component of this project. Part of the requirements during the design phase will be to inform all users of this activity and the critical nature of ensuring our runway is always maintained to be usable and safe.