The Helena City Commission approved Monday its half of a joint city-county resolution reauthorizing the Helena Regional Airport Authority for the next 10 years.
The previous 10-year resolution was set to expire July 1, and City Manager Rachel Harlow-Schalk initially presented the reauthorization process to the city commission as an opportunity to address some grievances it had with the airport, chiefly a backlog of unpaid assessments totaling more than $300,000.
An internal memo from Harlow-Schalk indicated city staff has raised concerns the airport has neglected to pay about $344,000 in assessments owed to the city and county. The delinquent payments stretch from 2019 through 2020. It is a substantial amount, the city of Helena Finance Director Sheila Danielson said during an April 14 city administrative meeting.
The Helena Regional Airport Authority is up for reauthorization this summer, and city leadership is taking the opportunity to address some grievances it has with existing arrangements, including a backlog
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The city of Helena hired two new department heads, a finance and public works director, after the positions sat vacant for more than a year.
Sheila Danielson, a certified public finance officer with more than 25 years of accounting and finance experience, took over the city s finance director role at the beginning of December. Danielson is Livingston native and a University of Washington alumna and said she has accrued extensive budgeting experience during her years of working with nonprofits.
Sheila Danielson, a certified public finance officer with more than 25 years of accounting and finance experience, took over the city s finance director role at the beginning of December.