The Department of Transportations Aviation Division inappropriately awarded a $190,000 grant to pay for unauthorized construction projects at Ocean Isle Airport, including a paving project by a company with ties to a member of the state Aeronautics Council that recommended the grant. The report also questions a $430,000 grant to the Sanford Lee County Airport to correct construction deficiencies. The Aviation Division approved the grant without deciding who was responsible for the defects. The report recommends that the Aeronautics Council comply with Board of Ethics rules of conduct, and that members of the council refrain from doing business with any government body that gets grant funds from the Division of Aviation.

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