• Pearson Field Airport is owned and maintained by the City of Vancouver
• The airport has one major runway.
• Although there has been periodic pavement surface maintenance efforts since, the runway pavement was last rehabilitated in 1991.
• The pavement rehabilitation project proposed will be 90% funded through a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Goal 1, Objective 1.2: Ensure our infrastructure, including buildings and utilities, is safe, environmentally responsible and well maintained.

The City of Vancouver owns and maintains Pearson Field Airport. The airport serves the local general aviation community with one runway; runway 8-26. The runway is surfaced with asphalt pavement which, although maintained in intervening years, has not be rehabilitated since 1991.  With a design life of 20 years at the longest, the existing pavement has served its purpose well, but is now past its useful life and must be rehabilitated.

The proposed project calls for the removal and replacement of the asphalt surface of the 60' x 3250' runway, the replacement of the Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) pilot landing assistance system for runway 26, and the replacement of some field guidance signs.

The project will be 90% funded from a pending grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and 10% funded from the Pearson Airfield enterprise fund. The City has applied for an additional 5% grant for the project from the Washington Department of Transportation Aviation Section (WSDOTA). If that WSDOTA grant is awarded, the Pearson Field enterprise fund will need to fund only the remaining 5% of the project.

Invitation to bid #19-16 was released in April 2019, with bids being opened May 21. Four bids were received and ranged from $742,197.46 to $883,167.32

Granite Construction's low bid was responsive.

Because of the federal grant funding being used for the project, there are no City of Vancouver apprentice utilization goal requirements for this project.

As FAA grants are not confirmed until late July, the City may not have grant award confirmation by the time City Council considers this award proposal.  Staff is requesting that City Council authorize the City Manager or his designee to enter into a construction contract with Granite only after the FAA grant has been confirmed. 

1. Pearson Field Airport's runway will be resurfaced with an anticipated 20 year+ surface life.
2. The aging existing PAPI will be replaced new state-of-the-art PAPI 
3. The FAA grant will pay for 90% of the project's costs.
4. A pending WSDOTA grant could pay for an additional 5% of the project's costs.