Improvements to its passenger terminals and baggage claim areas and runway repairs at Bob Hope Airport are part of the new $107 million budget adopted Monday by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority. The fiscal year 2006-07 budget is an increase of 35 percent over the current year’s budget of $79 million. Nearly half of the airport’s operating revenues – $25 million will be generated through parking fees. The total operating revenues projected are $54 million. Among the improvement projects slated for the coming year are linking two existing baggage carousels with a conveyor belt and the creation of a new baggage receiving area in Terminal A, airport spokesman Victor Gill said. The airport is also currently resurfacing its two asphalt runways, an expenditure of $9 million in the new budget, an increase over the original estimated pricetag of $6 million. “The cost of asphalt and other paving supplies in light of the spike in oil prices means it’s a much more expensive project,” Gill said.
