During a special called meeting yesterday, the Crossville City Council is proceeding with two long-term agreements for the airport.

One provides a 30-year lease for Whisper Aero with a 10-year renewal to house maintenance facilities.

The second agreement is a five-year contract with renewals for five years with Azure to provide a jet business.

“Whisper is an economic development project that we had state funding help with, and we reuse that as a long-term industry that will be established there for a long time,” said Crossville City Manager Greg Wood. “Azure, hopefully, they’ll be a long time there as well, but they have a significant investment bringing their jet business here, turboprop business here that the airport shouldn’t have previously. So they need some assurance of some longevity there. That’s the basis of those two contracts.”

City Attorney Randy York said the city charter requires the city to advertise the sale of real property or the lease of property for more than two years. The city council was required to call a special meeting to get advertising started for the leases.

City officials say final contract approval will come after the parties provide agreements.