Local News in Brief : Burbank Airport’s ’88 Budget Is 25% Higher
The Burbank Airport Authority Monday adopted a 1987-88 budget projecting a 25% increase in spending.
Most of the increase will go into land acquisition and physical improvements of the airport, Dan Simich, manager of airport administration, told the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority.
The budget provides $4 million to purchase land and $2.8 million for reconstruction of the south end of the north-south runway.
The new land will be used for automobile parking and for relocating general aviation activities and the control tower, Simich said.
Another $730,000 was budgeted for parking-lot improvements. Other projects include removal of obstructions and underground tanks, purchase of a trash compactor, noise studies and an environmental report for a new terminal building.
Operating expenses will rise about 5%, mainly because of increases in utilities and insurance and the purchase of a parking-lot shuttle and three maintenance trucks, Simich said.
He attributed a 50% increase in utility costs to the airport’s new east concourse, which will open this fall.
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