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Crossville City Council moved forward with two long-term agreements for the Crossville Airport during a special-called meeting Tuesday.
One agreement provides a 30-year lease for Whisper Aero with a 10-year renewal to house maintenance facilities. The second agreement is a five-year contract with renewals for five years with Azure to provide jet business to Crossville.
“Whisper is an economic development project that we had state funding help with, and we reuse that as a long term industry that will be established there for a long time,” City Manager Greg Wood said. “Azure, hopefully they’ll be a long time there as well, but they have a significant investment bringing their jet business here, turboprop business here that the airport shouldn’t have previously. So they need some assurance of some longevity there. That’s the basis of those two contracts.
City Attorney Randy York said the city charter requires the city to advertise the sell of real property or the lease of property for more than two years. That required the council to call a special meeting to get advertising started for the leases. York said the council wanted to meet a March deadline.
Final contract approval will come after the parties provide final agreements. Wood said all parties have tentatively agreed to the contracts.
