Mencarini, Matt, and Jonathan Bullington. 2021. Ind. airport manager’s expenses questioned: Thousands not reported to IRS or taxed since ’18. Courier – Journal, May 09, 2021. (accessed June 19, 2021).

John Secor is a busy man.

Despite flying 12 days a month as a UPS pilot, Secor says he still has time to be part-time manager of the Clark County Regional Airport in Sellersburg, Indiana — inspecting the grounds in his truck, chasing animals off the runways and handling the day’s business.

He said he took the job in 2015 thinking that it would be a short-term arrangement to help “keep the lights on” while the airport’s governing board, on which he served, found its next permanent manager.

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Then and now, the airport authority lacked oversight from the elected officials who appoint its board members — illustrating the outsized power often granted to small-town, quasi-governmental bodies that control public property but largely operate out of the public eye.

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