During its meeting Monday, Washington’s City Council will consider a recommendation to reduce the liquidated damages for the airport terminal project.

At its July 14 meeting, the Airport Advisory Board voted 4-1 to recommend that the council lower the liquidated damages from $7,000 to $3,500. The request for decreasing the liquidated damages came from A.R. Chesson Construction Co., which was awarded the contract to build the terminal to replace the one destroyed by a gustnado July 1, 2012.

The damages were imposed as a result of the project not being substantially completed by the end of the specified contract time. The adjusted completion date was April 14. The actual substantial completion date was April 28.

“Per contract documents, the engineer, architect and staff recommended applying $500/day in liquidated damages for a total of $7,000,” reads a memorandum from Allen Lewis, the city’s public works director, to the mayor and council.

The memorandum notes that board members discussed the Chesson request at length before voting to recommend the council reduce the liquidated damages to $3,500.

In December 2013, the council awarded an $899,905.50 contract to Chesson to build a new terminal building at Washington-Warren Airport.

Most of the funding for this project came from three sources; $500,000 in N.C. Division of Aviation grant funds, $199,277 in Vision 100 airport funds and $200,628.50 in insurance proceeds, according to city documents. The new terminal building includes amenities that former terminal building did not offer.

The new terminal building has a porch area on the ground floor, complete with rocking chairs. The ground floor also includes office space, a kitchen, restrooms, a lobby, a conference room and an area where pilots may rest and make flight plans.

In other business, the council is scheduled to consider approving the removal of the traffic signals at the intersection of West Main and Respess streets and replacing them with a three-way stop configuration.

The council meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Council Chambers in the Municipal Building, 102 E. Second St. To view the council’s agenda for a specific meeting, visit the city’s web­site at www.washingtonnc.gov, click “Government” then “City Council” heading, then click “Meeting Agendas” on the menu to the right. Then click on the date for the appropriate agenda.