RIAC not implementing proposed airport parking fee this summer
THE RHODE ISLAND AIRPORT CORPORATION has decided to forego implementation of a proposed fee-based parking program at the Block Island (pictured) and Westerly state airports until the fall. / PHOTO COURTESY OF HENRY DUPONT
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Airport Corp. on Thursday said it will delay implementing a fee-based parking program it is developing for the Block Island and Westerly state airports until at least September.
“There will not be a launch of this program over the summer,” Brian Schattle, RIAC chief financial officer, told Providence Business News. “The specifics are still being developed” by FlightLevel Aviation, the fixed-base operator at the Block Island State Airport, for planned implementation in September.
McKee says he asked Raimondo to wait on PUC nomination
PROVIDENCE Lt. Gov. Daniel McKee is weighing in on the appointment of a new member to the state Public Utilities Commission, saying he specifically asked Gov. Gina Raimondo to allow him to make the nomination after his swearing-in.
Raimondo, however, didn t heed his request, and instead, on the eve of her departure to Washington for a job in the Biden Cabinet, nominated former Senate Majority Leader John Jack Revens to the $139,000-a-year position on the powerful commission that sets water, gas and electric rates.
Hours before the Senate Committee on Commerce was set to hold a hearing on Revens nomination Friday afternoon, McKee sent a letter to Chairwoman Susan Sosnowski urging committee members to ensure careful review and evaluation of the nominee’s commitment to rigorously represent the interests of Rhode Island ratepayers ahead of the interests of utility company shareholders.