$20 MILLION FACELIFT PLANNED FOR COUNTY AIRPORTS.Byline: Kermit Pattison Daily News Staff Writer A long-term blueprint for Oxnard and Camarillo airports Camarillo Airport (ICAO: KCMA, FAA LID: CMA) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, California, United States. outlines about $20 million in improvements to runways, buildings and other facilities by 2001. The five-year capital improvement plan for the county-owned airports calls for beginning this year with more than $3 million in projects. "We're just trying to give the board a look ahead at what kind of projects we're anticipating for the airport," said Airport Director Rod Murphy. The Ventura County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. will review the five-year plan Five-Year Plan, Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. Tuesday. The plan outlines $10.1 million in projects at Camarillo Airport through 2001. The list includes $1.1 million in projects scheduled for this year such as filling runway cracks, security fencing, lighting and stabilization of runways and taxiways. At Oxnard Airport Oxnard Airport (IATA: OXR, ICAO: KOXR, FAA LID: OXR) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) west of the central business district (CBD) of Oxnard, a city in Ventura County, California, USA. , the plan outlines nearly $9.3 million in projects through 2001. The $2.3 million in work slated for this year includes drainage improvements and lighting. The Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control is expected to pay for about 90 percent of the projects' funding, said Murphy. The FAA and California Division of Aeronautics aeronautics: see aerodynamics; airplane; aviation. require airports to file five-year capital improvement plans. Ventura County's plans have been endorsed by the Camarillo and Oxnard airport authorities and the Aviation Advisory Commission, Murphy said. The capital improvement plan is separate from a master plan under consideration for the two airports, he said. Although the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to review the plans Tuesday, each project would have to pass another review, said Murphy. "It doesn't mean they're approving each project," he said. "Each project will come back individually." County Supervisor Frank Schillo said the plan helped chart a clearer long-term vision for the future of the two airports. "There never was a long-term perspective," he said. "We were operating day by day. (The report) is giving us a future look as to where we can be. I like this." But Don Hollingsworth of Camarillo, an activist on airport issues, was less optimistic op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op . "The thing is a wish list," said Hollingsworth, a former airline pilot and frequent critic of county government. "If you go back historically, you'll find with all these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video The music video stars Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. Track Listing 1. "These Things [Radio Edit]" - 3:17 2. they put in for, some of them they got and some they didn't. When the money became available, they change what it's used for." |
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