Yesterday I received this agenda for an Airport Commission meeting tonight:
http://www.ci.chico.ca.us/government/minutes_agendas/documents/Agenda20170725finala.pdf
I’ve signed up to received these agendas for various meetings Downtown, they’re usually sent out the Friday before the meeting. Why only a day ahead? Probably because city staff doesn’t really don’t want the public to get wind of what they’re talking about with JetChico, the group that is working to get taxpayers to subsidize commercial air service at Chico Airport.
jetchico.org
“Wanna be Turlock?”? Really? Ooooo! Trash talk!
This group is shady, they don’t say who they are – you have to attend their meetings – at a winery? – to find out what they’re up to. Or you can attend tonight, or you can watch it online.
I hope you will – I cannot attend, I’d already committed myself to a work week out of town by the time I got the notice.
Or you can read JetChico’s reports – it’s all there. I read their financing reports, and what I see is, they expect to get most of their money from grants and bonds – tax money. The reports are pretty damning, and make it pretty clear – small airports cannot support themselves, they need over 50 % subsidization from the tax payers, most of whom will never fly.
Chico Taxpayers Association 
“Wanna be Turlock?”
Wanna be like Stockton?
They got airline service, but not much else.