Coos County Airport District commissioners voted Thursday to draw $300,000 from a $500,000 line of credit at Oregon Pacific Bank, to pay for completing the airport tower.

Airport Executive Director Gary LeTellier said Thursday the debt will be paid back with passenger facility charges.

At this week’s meeting, commissioners also:

n  Approved Coos Aviation’s request to demolish one building and construct a fixed-base operator terminal with adjacent parking on a leased 18,000-square-foot parcel.

n By a 3-1 vote, approved a lease agreement with Ocean Air for the old terminal at $6 a square foot. The 20-year contract is renewable in five-year increments. Rental will be $83,970 a year, pending a maintenance and other minor agreements. Commissioner Helen Brunell Mineau cast the dissenting vote.

n Voted to sell surplus sand for $6 a cubic yard. The airport district has stockpiled between 300,000 and 400,000 cubic yards.

n Rejected a proposal from Brunell Mineau to rent paintings from the Coos Art Museum. Her fellow commissioners told her to try to find donations. Renting five paintings for six months would cost $350, plus a $150 membership fee at the museum.

“I’m hard-pressed to spend any money to put art in this building, given what’s going on in people’s households,” Chairman Mike Lehman said.

Two other items of airport news:

n The Southwest Oregon Regional Airport sign, which obstructs views along Airport Lane at the entrance to the new terminal, will be shortened by about three feet. Project manager Skanska U.S.A. will pay the $8,500 to have it fixed.

Commissioners agreed that a bigger sign is needed by the old terminal to point passengers to the new terminal.

n People may have noticed that a partial covering of greenish shingles on the  traffic control safety tower suddenly disappeared about a week ago.

The shingles were sent back to the manufacturer, because they didn’t match the terminal.

A new shipment is scheduled to arrive in December.