WFRM.net reports:
A report in today’s BRADFORD ERA may be slightly misleading according to Potter County Commissioner Chairman Ken Wingo. As WFRM reported earlier this month, Potter County was asked by the Bradford Regional Airport Authority to give up its seat on the authority because the County never was a paying member of the authority. Today’s news story says the decision is a direct result of the “financial difficulties facing the county in light of the Time-Warner Cable layoffs.” The Commissioners had just completed preparing the 2007 county budget days before the announcement by the giant media company that it would be closing the Coudersport call center, laying off some 500 workers in early February. Chairman Wingo told WFRM that the commissioners believed there were other priorities for the county and that the board felt the $15,000 payment to stay on the authority was excessive for an 8th class county, especially when Cameron County which is also an 8th class county is required to pay only $3,000.Wingo told WFRM that if the situation changes, the county might be interested it going back on at some point and said that some recent changes with the airport are attractive to Time Warner in terms of the 75 or so employees who are expected to stay here, for awhile at least. Flights from Bradford are going to Dulles Airport in the Greater Washington. DC area and the location is convenient for Time Warner as it is close to their Virginia headquarters. Originally, Cleveland was to be the hub with fewer flights. Wingo added that the change in hubs, might even mean a few more Time Warner jobs being located in Coudersport in the future.
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