The Daily Sentinel: Grand Junction City Council is seeking more transparency from the Grand Junction Regional Air Service Alliance.

Grand Junction voters approved a 3% increase in the city’s lodging tax in November 2018, with one third of those funds going to fund the Air Service Alliance, which incentivizes airlines to add routes through Grand Junction Regional Airport. The total revenue from the lodging tax increase in 2024 is projected in the city’s 2024 budget to be about $2.5 million, so the Air Service Alliance would get a third of that.

At issue is a confidentiality agreement that City Council Member Dennis Simpson was asked to sign by the Air Alliance board (of which The Daily Sentinel Publisher Jay Seaton is chair), to which Simpson is City Council’s liaison, City Attorney John Shaver said at a workshop Monday.

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