RS airport funding request not favored

An airport funding request to renovate its west hanger for a client arriving in 2020 didn’t go over well at a commissioners’ meeting.

During a recent Sweetwater County commissioners meeting, Southwest Regional Airport Director Devon Brubaker told the commissioners a project he had scheduled to start in a couple of years, will now need to be completed by June of 2020. This project is the renovation of the west hanger, which has been vacant for years.

Brubaker said the need for the hanger to have renovations done quickly is so the Bureau of Land Management can construct Wyoming’s first state of...