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Panel recomments letting Moline annex site of future airport hotel
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AMetropolitan Airport Authority committee has recommended moving ahead with an agreement to allow the city of Moline to annex a site near the airport where a new hotel is planned. The annexation will allow city infrastructure to be connected to the proposed Holiday Inn Express near the entrance to the airport.The airport's planning committee approved the agreement at a meeting Friday, but the proposal still requires approval by the full airport board and Moline's City Council. The site where the hotel is expected to be built is under Rock Island County's jurisdiction and the county board last month approved its part of the annexation agreement. As part of the agreement, Moline would continue giving the county hotel-motel tax to help support Niabi Zoo. The annexation agreement also would see the existing Hampton Inn annexed by the city. Moline's city council is expected to discuss the annexation agreement at Tuesday's council meeting. The airport's planning committee also approved a proposal Friday to develop a plan to automate the airport's parking booths, which would save the airport about $276,000 a year, according to Bryan Johnson, airport assistant director of aviation. The airport has a contract with a private firm to staff parking booths, Mr. Johnson said, adding that about70 percent of parking payments are made with credit cards already. The planning committee recommended to the full airport board, which meets next week, that Wilson Parking Consultants of Chicago be hired to study how to implement an automated parking system. It would take the consultants three to five months to complete the study and make recommendations for an estimated fee of $41,000, Mr. Johnson said. The planning committee also recommended that the full board approve a $165,000 agreement to buy the Oldefest property on the west side of the airport off 69th Avenue. The one-acre site contains a single-family home that would be torn down if the purchase is approved, said the airport's director of aviation Bruce Carter. 
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1863 -- 150 years ago: A petition is being circulated asking the city council to order awell bored in Market Square. It would be a great accommodation to the public.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 p.m. on May 18 the Mississippi River flooded its banks atRock Island and destroyed the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber Co. and damagedRock Island Arsenal power plant. Total loss is estimated at $100,000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of Sough Rock Island Township are circulating apetition favoring the annexation of that area to the City of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: A group of state members of the National Grandmothers Clubmeeting in Rock Island are making plans to petition for the observance of a NationalGrandmothers Day.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere and Co. reported today that its U.S. and Canadian sales forthe first half of the 1963 fiscal year set an all time record of $323,716.628.
1988 -- 25 years ago: William G. Lawrence, first administrative director, has retired fromPECO Enterprises, Inc. Prior to his service at PECO, Mr. Lawrence was the civilianpersonnel officer at the Rock Island Arsenal.
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