Council reviews options for Moffett
Moffett Federal Airfield may remain an airport even if NASA leaves, according to an analysis of federal property disposal by Sunnyvale. The report, discussed at a City Council study session Sept. 17, stated that because Moffett is not base-closure property, it must follow a process overseen by the General Services Administration. Disposal of base-closure properties follows a different process, handled by the Department of Defense.
Under the GSA process, property must first be declared an excess by NASA, according to the report prepared by Karen Davis, Sunnyvale's assistant to the city manager. Other federal agencies will then have the chance to determine if they can use it. The property is declared surplus if other agencies have no interest.
The property may then be used by any public agency for "public benefit use," of which airports have the highest priority. Other possible uses include homeless assistance, public health, educational or recreational uses, or for correctional or port facilities.
ClariÞcations
In a Sept. 18 letter to the editor praising Sunnyvale Community Services director Nancy Tivol, James Vincenzini was writing as an employee of the Sunnyvale Elementary School District. He was not writing on behalf of the district.
In a Sept. 25 story about class-size reduction in the Sunnyvale Elementary School District, it should have been noted that the $110,000 cost to the district is over and above the money received in state funding.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, October 9, 1996.
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