Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 60

E20 The Sioux City Journal, Sunday. March 1 4, 1 993 Sioux Gateway Airport does without subsidy c.KcMioc in rtip future, the eoal of the i-1 i Vi if 1 'r- i ByBillZahren Journal staff writer The Sioux Gateway Airport weaned itself from taxpayer subsidy last fiscal year and will operate without local tax dollars again this year, according to the director of aviation. The Sioux Gateway Airport Authority has been self-supporting since fiscal year 1992-1993 started on July 1 last year, according to Randy Curtis, director of aviation. Sioux City budget figures confirm Curtis' claims. Sioux City taxpayers subsidized the airport with $96,000 in fiscal year 1991-1992.

But as of the fiscal year starting July 1, 1992, the airport has gotten along without subsidy. In fact, according to city budget figures, the airport authority actually paid the city $189,317 in fiscal year 1991-1992 and will pay another $183,691 this fiscal year and another $187,123 during the year starting July 1993. Curtis said those payments are to pay off debts from capital improvements at the airport made when the Sioux City Council controlled it. authority is to keep the airport self-sustaining. Curtis said by running the authority more like a business, ex-.

-penses dropped and incomes increas- ed to make the airport self-sustaining. This is also the first year that authority membership has reached the capacity envisioned when it was formed in 1989, Curtis said. "We wanted to include the six governmental bodies around the airport," said Curtis. The governments include charter members Sioux City and Sergeant Bluff along with Woodbury County, South Sioux City, Dakota County, Sergeant Bluff and Union County. Each governmental body appoints representatives to the authority board.

Sioux City gets six members and must maintain a majority accor-. ding to the authority agreement. The others appoint one representative each. The authority does not have the power to tax, but can request; tax money from the governing bodies' which are free to say no. security Maurice Topf, chairman of the Siouxland Aviation Historical Association, points out one of the Aviation group opens throttle on air museum Computer tightens Randy Curtis Director of aviation Now the airport is controlled by an airport authority, made up of appointees from six governmental bodies.

While the authority can always ask the participating communities for Director of Aviation Randy Curtis said the computer-controlled system is now in place, monitoring which employees are allowed into all secure areas of the airport. The security area extends around the entire airfield and controls several gates around the fence including two for vehicle entry. Curtis said he felt the former security system was adequate at Sioux Gateway, but the new high tech sentry was required by Federal Aviation Administration rules. Saving no to the FAA plan could The Positive ByBillZahren Journal staff writer A group of aviation enthusiasts have plans for an air museum taxiing down the runway and hope they will soon take off. For about three years, members of Siouxland Aviation Historical Association have been tossing around the idea of building the Mid-America Air Museum.

Now their ideas have taken the form of rough architectural drawings and gotten the conditional green light from the Sioux Gateway Airport Authority. Maurice Topf, chairman of the have jeopardized future FAA grants, which provide the vast majority of capital project money for the authority. Curtis said the FAA moved to re- quire computer-controlled access to airport areas after a hijacking back in 1987 at a major American airport. The new system is designed to be a more reliable control to airport areas than trying to rely on- distribution of various keys, Curtis, said. Hotline makes stink about features of the Mark Fageol) Siouxland Aviation Historical Association Board of Directors, hopes the project starts moving down the runway this year and gets airborne soon.

Topf said after the airport authority approved the idea of locating the museum on airport property early this year, plans started moving forward to raise over $5 million for the project. Topf, an aviation fan ever since the days when B-17s flew over his family's farm near the airport, said the museum will try to preserve the aviation history of the area. The proposed Mid-American Air Museum features about 50,000 thing and what it smelled like, along with other details. The information is forwarded to city utilities workers who plot the areas on a map in order to keep track of continual complaints. If there are 10 calls in the same area within a six-hour period, the ordinance calls for utilities workers to investigate the smell immediately.

By plotting the calls on a map, utilities workers can determine where there are continual problems and try to correct them, according to Paul Nolan, wastewater system manager and leader of the odor control effort. Nolan said the line got about 40 calls in the first 45 days. He's working on ways to better publicize the hot line number so more citizens will a iiiS museum plans. (Staff photo by square feet of display space, room for a small theater and an area for restoration of aircraft. Architects estimate the current plan would cost about $5 million to build.

Also in preliminary plans are an extensive gift shop, classrooms and reference library. Plans are still tentative so the list of museum features could change. The main display space will be an' open area three stories tall, Topf said, with walkways placed around the outside at various levels. SEE INTERSTATE continued on page E22 be able to report smells. So far, most of the complaints have come from areas in Morn-ingside, south of Gordon Drive and north of the Highway 20 bypass, Nolan said.

In order to comply with the new odor regulations, many companies have voluntarily installed "scrubbers" on their offending smoke stacks. A scrubber injects a substance into the exhaust stream to capture the chemicals or particles that cause the odor, Nolan said. The substance injected into the exhaust depends on what causes the odor, Nolan said. The city wastewater treatment plant has been operating with one since 1991, Nolan said. "We're darn near odor-free down there," he said.

Nolan said people still blame the wastewater treatment plant in Mor-ningside for most any smell they pick up. "We still have the concept in mind that every smell in Sioux City is associated with the wastewater treatment plant," Nolan said. Odor-generators like John Morrell, 4 ByBillZahren Journal staff writer Got a smell in your back yard that's not coming from anything you own? Call 277-5007. That will connect you with the Odor Hot Line, a 24-hour service created by the city to help stamp out any stink around town. The city introduced the Odor Hot Line in early January as part of a new odor ordinance.

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ByBillZahren Journal staff writer Compelled by FAA fears, Sioux Gateway has a new main security guard who's tough to fool. The guard is actually a muscular computer that can keep track of who comes and goes from secured areas at Sioux Gateway and has replaced a ring of keys each worker used to carry. One key was a credit card-like pass. The system cost $620,000 with $558,000 of that coming from the federal government. smells Diosynth Great Plains Rendering, Sioux By-Products and Great Plains Processing either have voluntarily installed scrubbers or made plans to install one by this summer, Nolan said.

Nolan said the citizens committee wants to use a cooperative approach to the odor ordinance. "We want to work with the industry to get them into compliance and as odor-free as possible without walking up and shutting the doors," said Nolan. The ordinance does give the city power to order odor producers to correct the problem. In the worst instance, the city could use court action to force odor elimination, according to the ordinance. The system also provides for various appeals of review board decisions, Nolan said.

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