You’re not going to find a much better deal, that’s for sure.
The Sedona Fire District is nearing the end of a 10-year contract with the Sedona- Oak Creek Airport Authority to house microwave telecommunication dishes on the airport’s Automated Weather Observation Service tower. And the cost to rent that space on the tower each year: $1.
The SFD Governing Board met in a special meeting on Wednesday, April 29, to discuss the issue in executive session. Following the meeting, Fire Chief Jon Trautwein said the board gave him authorization to move forward with the renewal process. He added that at this time no details have been worked out.
The current lease was signed in September 2010, but at that time SFD had just one antenna on the AWOS tower. However, a 2014 lease amendment was signed by former Fire Chief Kris Kazian after the SFD had requested adding two additional microwave dishes.
“As a result of the building of a new fire station [Station 6] in the Chapel area along State Route 179, the Sedona Fire District is in need of increased communications capability,” Rod Probst, the airport general manger at the time in 2014, wrote to his board of the amendment.
