City Tax On Fuel at ORH

Since Allegiant left ORH, we all realized one of the biggest issues and maybe the reason Allegiant left ORH was the cost of fuel. In fact the month (August, 2006) before Allegiant left. Check the minutes ,the Airport Commission voted to end the City of Worcester tax on the sale of fuel at ORH.

One could only imagine that this was done to help keep Allegiant here? Maybe we should have showered the remaining monies from the Small Community Air Service instead, of which we still have $200,000 remaining and could potentially lose if we do use during the one year extension that the DOT has already given us.

Now some 16 months later, it looks like it has not been waived, according to the December, 2007 minutes? Why has it taken 16 months to change this, or am I wrong? Maybe we have a pattern:

• G-13 that was coming but never happened
• the name change, which we all talked about way too much, never happened
• DJ Air --what happened?
• the RFP for a parcel of land that had a winner but has not bought yet and looks like may never happen
• the RFP for the restaurant slot that never happened
• the modern ORH website that has never happened
• the 20 Year Master Plan that has never happened
• the consultant, IMG, that we have paid alot of money to and have no idea what has happened

Maybe we have a hattern here.