and Parish the parish president is moving forward with plans to improve the parish airport as business continues to Boom news 10s zaye hog visited the airport to talk about all the renovations underway growth and Improvement are top priorities here at the St landre Parish airport as Paris president Jesse Bellard lays out the plans for much needed Renovations airport is a drool that we have in our Paris that most people don't even know about Bellard says he's put an emphasis on making the airport
a more vital part of the Paris since taking office in 2020 but a major challenge was making sure the airport could handle an increase in business with funding drafted by Congressman Kay Higgins Bellard says the improvements of the facility are ready to begin our Runway 1836 is going to have new LED lighting coming up on there we're going to be repainting the stripes north side of our airport to got some trees that need to come down other improvements include repaving the taxiways and improving
the fencing around the airport anything dealing with safety on the airport we're going to be redoing it as business has improved at the airport including more than doubling its fuel sales and increased traffic as planes travel to St Landry Parish if lafayette's airport is busy Bard says these improvements ensure business continues to Boom the improvements come in because we putting improvements into the airport with those Renovations already underway and expected to go through the summer bellard
's already laying out additional plans to add more hangers to get more airplanes and more eyes in St Andre Parish I think we built six more hangers in the last couple years we got 20 uh planes waiting on the list to come to our airport we max out a space right now we are asking for more money to build more hang so our airport is growing and there a lot of stuff that's happening on the airport but again it takes time and money and it's we finally getting into that Port now in St land Parish I'm Z
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