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Airway Heights council approves additional funding for its recreation complex

The Airway Heights City Council held a public hearing on Nov. 5 on the city’s 2019 final preliminary budget, and also approved two measures allocating additional monies to the Airway Heights Recreation Complex project.

Council unanimously approved the use of money from two separate real estate excise tax funds (REET) to go toward the construction of the recreation center, which has been under construction since November 2017. About $229,000 from REET 1 and $197,000 from REET 2 will go toward the complex’s completion.

The city also allocated more than $130,000 in bond interest to the recreation...

 

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