May 8, 2014
SUMA has long advocated for sustainable funding for community airports. In 2010, the SUMA Board of Directors endorsed a policy advocating for additional funding for airport infrastructure in southern Saskatchewan. The Community Airport Partnership (CAP) program has since received a much-needed boost to continue building links among Saskatchewan and national and international markets.
This is the fourth consecutive year the CAP is providing $700,000, spread among 15 communities – two of which are receiving CAP funding for the first time.
- Assiniboia, $10,000 for an engineering services report;
- Carlyle, $95,000 for runway extension and lighting;
- Esterhazy, $37,470 for runway lighting, crack sealing and a cement beacon pole;
- Humboldt, $30,000 for crack repair and asphalt patching;
- Kindersley, $7,000 for beacon replacement and runway crack sealing;
- Kipling, $62,500 for taxiway and apron rehabilitation;
- Luseland, $44,940 for crack filling;
- Maidstone, $16,250 for GPS/weather tracking system;
- Moose Jaw, $15,000 for new lighting wiring system and taxiway crack sealing;
- North Battleford, $80,000 for storm sewer replacement;
- RM of Snipe Lake, $123,450 for runway rehabilitation;
- Shellbrook, $99,390 for drainage repairs and runway upgrades;
- Swift Current, $28,000 for asphalt maintenance and beacon refurbishment;
- Unity, $15,000 for runway chip seal and asphalt patching; and
- Yorkton, $36,000 for runway and taxiway repairs, drainage rehabilitation.
For more information on this year's CAP, read the full press release.
