Ironwood Mi, Why Should County Spend $20,000 on Advertising

From the Ironwood Daily Globe 

Board proposes airport ad campaign:

 "2/9/2011 12:21:00

IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP -- Now that the Gogebic-Iron County Airport has the schedule it has been awaiting for the past four years, airport board chairman Joe Bonovetz said, 'It's time to let the public know what's going on.'

Frontier Airlines will come on-board on April 18 and is proposing earlier (5:37 a.m. except on Sundays and 4:37 p.m., except for Saturdays) flights to Milwaukee, and later flights into Ironwood (2:35 p.m, and 9:35 p.m.) flights, except for Saturdays.

Frontier will overnight planes in Ironwood, Bonovetz noted.

Bonovetz is proposing an advertising campaign to alert the public of the change in scheduling and hopefully increasing airport boarding numbers.

Bonovetz, a member of the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners, will seek $20,000 for advertising at today's 5 p.m. county board meeting. He said he will ask that the money be taken out of the county's delinquent tax revolving fund."

When is it the responsibility for government to advertise for a private business? Was this a secret deal agreed to by the county and Frontier? If the county has extra money laying around for this, why not reduce taxes to the people of Gogebic County. Frontier decided to be in Ironwood, let them build their business.