"Ultimately, deferring essential maintenance or asset replacement reduces the airport's ability to provide services and could threaten public health, safety and overall quality of life." "The lack of investment makes it increasingly difficult to sustain the asset in a condition necessary to provide expected service levels," according to the audit. The audit estimates the city is losing potentially more than $481,000 a year by failing to maintain the airport's units. "In addition, the Airport Department is not provided with any certainty as to how long the tenants will occupy the premises." "The Airport Department is not collecting the appropriate amount of revenue and no one is reviewing the amount of revenue collected, which reduces the amount of funds they have available for operating cost," the audit said. The June 3 review by the Office of the Auditor General also discovered that Coleman Young International Airport's hangars have broken down to the point that they "are causing a dangerous environment." There are four families of coyotes living on the property and birds have inhabited some of the hangars, "causing a bio-hazard" and "impacting the city's ability to rent these facilities to generate revenue," according to the audit.ĭetroit's Airport Department also has failed to obtain approval from Detroit's City Council for lease contracts, secure agreements for other tenants or maintain its assets. Detroit - A new audit of the city's financially troubled municipal airport documents decades of mishandled contracts and close to half-a-million dollars annually in revenue losses linked to the facility's disrepair.
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