Chapter 220

We talked about the farm for another hour before we called it an evening. Because of the change-up I got to sleep with Jenny a night early. Even though I was still too sore to hold her tight, I could still tell when she was getting ready to giggle and rubbed her tummy. I wondered what the connection was. Maybe some day I could find out.

We had breakfast over at the gym. It was health food, fruits and grain things. It made me appreciate that tomorrow I was going to cook a real breakfast.

We saw Cindy and Mark off again to open another college security site. The North six left yesterday with the fleet of cars and the truckload of office equipment for the site. One of the men we had hired for a full time security employee was a former commercial truck driver who was tired of over the road driving. But agreed to drive the truck down. We had two more weeks before the next one and that would be the last one down south.

We made our way to the meeting room to look over the print one more time before Tony, Kathy and Janet went over the presentation again. Marcy wanted to review the cost again and that did not surprise me one bit. We looked at several different layouts for the airport. We had several weeks before we needed to make a decision about the final layout.

Tony gave us the outline of the project. First Janet's engineering prints for the runoff ponds would be sent directly to EPA administrators for approval. Janet was certified by the EPA though and we should have written approval or required design changes within a week and final approval in two weeks.

The EPA approved plan would be sent to the state and county for review. The plans included a control plan for rain water runoff during the construction phase. The entire property would be surrounded by a slit fence. The equipment to separate the stone and sand would recycle its water. Trucks leaving the site would have all mud removed from their wheels and tire treads before exiting on the highway.

Each group section of dirt work would be completed with straw and grass seed planted before starting the next.

The existing runway would remain intact and be used for the July and August spraying operation. One runway would be completed in time for the October cover crop seeding. Crop dusting had to be done from this site to maintain the permit exemptions. The concrete needed 30 days to set before heavy loads could take off or land on it. The crop dusters could use it in 15 days, they were so light.

The construction equipment would start coming in on Monday. Scrapers, excavators, mining dump trucks, the portable concrete plant with Portland storage tanks and separation plant would be set up along with generators to run them.

The plans for the terminal building and main hanger would be rushed to completion. The pads for them would be the first concrete work so building could begin.

Today's agency training started at noon; I hoped and expected that the airport meeting would be over by then.

There were a few changes in the data - not enough to make any major changes to the final product. We were missing Crash in this session; there were several empty seats on the plane this morning for a flight to the Midwest he had asked if he could go along. He had not objected to anything we had planned for the airport not that it would have made any difference to our plans.

We gave the project a go. There would be sacrifices for a while. There would be no expansion of the security department other than the contracts we had already signed for the rest of this coming year. We would not have the extra money for setup.

Marcy's auto leasing division would have to stop ordering replacement cars for this physical year. If there were any new sites added the cars we had taken out of service would be put back in service. We had planned to auction all of them and now we needed to keep some.