Editor, Daily News:
The Naples City Council is wasting a lot of time discussing how much money they can get out of the Naples Airport Authority.
The question shouldn't be to complain about low lease payments. They need to determine how much the city spends on the airport and decide if they want to keep paying them or have the airport reimburse the city for those costs.
If the answer is the city doesn't contribute any money to support the airport, then the issue should be dropped.
The Airport Authority and the city are both public entities. Maybe the City Council should ask the School Board to pay them some money, because some of the schools are inside the city limits. That would make as much sense as the current complaint about low lease payments.
After all, what percent of the people in Naples have kids in school? That is the kind of argument we are hearing as a reason for trying to get more money from the airport.
The airport wasn't built to enrich the City Council.
Brian Betsworth , Naples
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