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be replaced, the Coast Guard would add onto Pier 4, where 87-foot patrol boats are cur-rently moored.

“That will be where the three fast-response cutters that have a 20-year service life will be moored, and that will bring approximately $21 million in construction contracts for infrastructure upgrades over the next fi ve years,” Brzuska said.

After the Vigorous and De-pendable leave Cape May and the three fast-response cut-ters arrive here in fi scal year 2018, the net loss of jobs will total 61 Coast Guard mem-bers, he said.

Brzuska said not all family members would leave base housing in Cape May when the Vigorous and Dependable are transferred to Virginia. He said the Coast Guard is working with families to miti-gate the hardships associated with the unanticipated move of the two cutters.

“This includes allowing op-portunities for early transfer-ring, offering military hous-ing for families after the ship transfers and paying moving expenses,” Brzuska said.

Families have the option of staying in Cape May while the Coast Guard members trans-fer to Virginia, particularly if they have recently arrived in Cape May to report to Cutter Vigorous, he said.

Brzuska said there are sev-eral families that will have what the Coast Guard calls “geo-bachelors.” The Coast Guard members will live part time in Virginia while the

family stays in Cape May, he said. The guard members will commute to Cape May for family visits.

The Vigorous and Depend-able are considered as nation-al and globally deployable boats going on multiple-week patrols in the deep Caribbean Sea, Florida Straits and North Atlantic Ocean, Brzuska said.

He said the new cutters to be home-based in Cape May would center on the Mid-Atlantic, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina.

Funding to construct two of the three new fast-response cutters was in place last year. Construction of the third cut-ter has not yet been approved, Brzuska said.

He said the Vigorous would eventually be replaced by the Offshore Patrol Cutter, which draws too much water to en-ter Cape May Harbor.

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companies, she said.Building 96 currently houses

the brewery, House of Print, a coffee roaster, an auto repair and storage. Griscom said she has not seen any interest in businesses wishing to build their own facility at the airport.

The offi cial entrance to the airport has been moved away from the area of the Erma Vol-unteer Fire Company to the center of the airport, she said.

State Sen. Jeff Van Drew said the county is experiencing tre-mendous economic challenges. He said discussion of economic development at the airport has been taking place for a number of years.

He said the airport needs to be looked at differently than it has in the past, and that of-fi cials need to be open-minded and fl exible.

DRBA Director of Airports Steve Williams said general aviation use of the airport is down, which follows national trends due in part to high fuel prices.

“The sector that forecasts say will grow in the next sev-eral years is business aviation and some aspects of commer-cial aviation,” he said.

Williams said general avia-tion has been the mainstay of the county airport for many years.

“Our recent forecast

showed annual operations at this airport in the range of 35,000 per year, and that’s pretty bad,” he said, refer-ring to the number of small-aircraft fl ights.

As a former World War II facility, the airport layout lacks order, Williams said.

“What we’re challenged with is how to refocus that,” he said.

Williams said the DRBA has made the airport more attractive to business avia-tion by bringing in a service to provide fuel to business jets. He noted that airport use is seasonal in nature, mainly April through October.

“We’re trying to step away from the general aviation/recreational use of the airport because its future is really going to be whether we can attract business aviation or not,” he said.

Williams suggested char-ter fl ights from Canada to the county airport. He noted that Atlantic City International Airport is also struggling.

Lower Township Manager Mike Voll said there is cur-rently solid cooperation for improving the airport among the township, county Board of Freeholders and DRBA

“This is not going to be a sil-ver-bullet issue,” Freeholder Will Morey said. “There’s not a bullet out there that’s any-where near silver enough to

fi x this airport problem.”“It’s going to be many,

many steps that we all take,” he continued.

Morey said a possible use for the airport the county is pursuing is for aerial drone testing for commercial uses such as fi sh fi nding and pipe-line monitoring. He said the airport could be used for chase-plane operations and maintenance of drones.

Morey said the remoteness of the county airport could be a benefi t when it comes to drone operations. He said an-other advantage of the airport is that new construction does not require a Coastal Area Fa-cilities Review Act permit.

Participants boarded a bus for a tour of the airport. The tour took participants past pri-vately owned condo hangars for small airplanes. Griscom noted that three or four devel-opment sites are available in the small hangar area.

She said the DRBA had about 30 tenants in the airport.

“This meeting showed that everyone is serious,” Clark said at the conclusion of the bus tour.

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