Applicants narrowed for Conway airport manager

A manager is expected to be hired soon for the airport under construction in the Lollie Bottoms area of Conway. The $30 million project is set to be completed in August. The current airport, Dennis F. Cantrell Field, along Sixth Street and adjacent to Interstate 40, is near a residential and commercial area. It is inadequate and unsafe, city officials have said.
A manager is expected to be hired soon for the airport under construction in the Lollie Bottoms area of Conway. The $30 million project is set to be completed in August. The current airport, Dennis F. Cantrell Field, along Sixth Street and adjacent to Interstate 40, is near a residential and commercial area. It is inadequate and unsafe, city officials have said.

CONWAY — Applicants for manager of the $30 million Conway airport under construction have been narrowed from 66 to 10, said Jack Bell, chief of staff for Mayor Tab Townsell.

“We’re hoping to get someone hired the latter part of January,” Bell said.

“We’re going to do some telephone interviews with these folks,” he said. Townsell likely will participate in the interviews, Bell said, because he does the hiring.

“This will be a department head, so it will be his call,” Bell said. “It’s his responsibility to hire department heads.”

A subcommittee of the seven-member Conway Airport Advisory Committee has reviewed the applications and made the decisions to date.

The subcommittee members are Bill Hegeman, chairman; Bill Atkinson; and Harrell Clendenin.

The list of candidates was narrowed to 17, then 10, said Lisa Mabry-Williams, the city’s human-resources director.

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