RON MATHIEU: Gets $20,000 sweetener.

  • RON MATHIEU: Gets $20,000 sweetener.

Ron Mathieu, executive director of Little Rock National Airport, got a makeup today for a pay raise he missed last year following the big controversy over $40,000 he gave to Little Rock Christian, the private school his son attended, to install a new surface for the football field.

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David Goins of Fox 16 reports the Commission gave Mathieu a $10,000 bonus, plus a $10,000 pay raise from $180,000 to $190,000.

You got the equivalent of an 11 percent pay bump this year, didn’t you?

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The commission really likes Mathieu, architect of plan by which the airport has been able to increase revenues from airlines even in the face of a continuing decline in passenger loads (another drop, of 1.9 percent, in 2011). PS: That figure refers to enplanements.

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