Kevin DeTray, manager of the Port Bucyrus-Crawford County Airport, updated council members on an improvement project. Earlier this year, the council appropriated funds for . our 5% of the FAA project to be done at the airport, he said. I think the engineering estimate was $1.6 million, and our 5% was $80,000, so that was what was appropriated.
At a meeting in January, Detray explained two improvements were planned this year, the upgrade of a Precision Approach Path Indicator on Runway 4 and construction of a parallel taxiway extension.
But bids for the project came in considerably higher than the engineering estimate, mostly because of changes requested by the Federal Aviation Administration, DeTray said Tuesday. So the FAA announced Monday it had decided to pay the full cost of the project, freeing up that $80,000.
BUCYRUS - Mayor Jeff Reser and Service-Safety Director Jeff Wagner will attend the next meeting of Bucyrus City Council as long as council members go through security.
Council members signed a letter dated May 6 that asked both men to attend the regular meeting that begins 7 p.m. May 18.
The mayor has accepted their request, contingent upon their submission to a security screening. Mr. Wagner and I thank council members for changing the security protocol back to the previous way as we had requested, Reser said. We will start attending meetings as needed.
Council s policy about security checks changed on March 18 when Council President Kurt Fankhauser posted a letter outside council chambers that allowed himself and others to bypass the police officers who guard the meetings.
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It Happened in Crawford County: Chief Schwemley takes the helm
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Bucyrus Fire Chief Chad Schwemley is a son of Dave and Cathy Schwemley and Kelly and Joyce Dillon. His brothers are Troy Schwemley and Kade and Clint Dillon. Chad s parents divorced and married again and he considers both to be his parents.
Chad attended school in all of Wynford’s schools except Lykens. He also went to Bucyrus schools where his 4th grade teacher Tammy Robinson would take the class to visit the fire station. Her husband Paul was a fireman there. Chad’s mom worked for the Telegraph-Forum, and she would also take him to the station. This was the beginning of his interest in firefighting and the trucks. After moving, Chad graduated from River Valley High School in 1990.
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