Juneau Airport Board May Leave Millions of Dollars of CARES Act Funding Unspent
April 28, 2020
Juneau International Airport is eligible for $21.7 million in CARES Act relief money over the next four years.
Most public airports in Alaska are state-owned, meaning state lawmakers and the state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities have oversight of their CARES Act money.
But Juneau’s airport is municipally owned and operated. The Juneau Airport Board’s decision last Thursday to put its share of the money into operations, and nothing for big-ticket capital construction, means Juneau may be forgoing millions of dollars.
