How to resolve AdBlock issue? SARATOGA — The Board set a Public Hearing to take place Feb. 9 regarding the proposed development of a new aircraft hangar at Saratoga County Airport.
North American Flight Services (NASF), which has been the Fixed Base Operator at the county airport for 22 years, proposed that it would privately fund the design and construction of the 22,500 square foot hangar – estimated at $6 million to $7 million - and would pay taxes and retain ownership of it following its construction.
NASF currently holds two leases at the airport with a term through April 2028 on which it currently pays approximately $7,000 per month. With the potential addition of a new hangar, the company is requesting the term of the lease be modified to extend to 2061, with a sliding incremental increase in monthly payments that would conclude at just over $9,600 per month in the final five years of the proposed lease extension, from 2056-2061.
A Public Hearing on the proposed modification and extensions of the terms of the leases was initially slated to take place in December but was postponed. The hearing will now be held at 4:40 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Meeting Room of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors at 40 McMaster St., Ballston Spa.
• A Public Hearing at 4:35 p.m. on Feb. 9 at the Chambers of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors to introduce a proposed Local Law that seeks to increase the population threshold at which an additional county supervisor would be added.
The standing law, first applied in 1968, provides that each town or city in Saratoga County will elect an additional County Supervisor for every 25,000 residents.
As a result of the 2020 census, growth of population in the town of Halfmoon appears to show the number of residents at about 25,600, or just above that 25,000 threshold. The options would be to either add a second supervisor, or adopt a local law to increase the threshold, which would keep the number of members on the Board of Supervisors status quo.
The proposed Local Law up for public discussion seeks to amend the population threshold to 27,500 as the new figure that would trigger the addition of a second supervisor.
