Airport

The locally appointed Metro Nashville Airport Authority will continue doing business despite a new state law giving the state control of the MNAA board starting July 1. 

This year, Tennessee’s Republican supermajority passed legislation to take over the state’s metropolitan airport authorities, which includes the current Metro-appointed board at Nashville International Airport. Under the new law, the local boards are replaced by a governing board of state appointees, two each from the governor, state House speaker and state Senate speaker. Mayor Freddie O’Connell is tasked with appointing the remaining three members for the nine-member MNAA.