GREENVILLE – Residents will vote later this month on a local log-home supplier’s offer to provide materials for the construction of an arrivals building at the Greenville airport in exchange for a hangar lot.

The special town meeting to act on the exchange and to accept the future arrivals building as town property will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, in the municipal building.

Randy Comber of Moosehead Cedar Log Homes has offered to donate the building materials for a 20-by-24-foot building that will offer pilots and their passengers a place where they can take shelter and use toilet facilities, obtain local weather updates and access a telephone.

In exchange, the Greenville resident would like one of the hangar lots under development and has asked that any surcharge and the 15-year-lease fee charged by the town be waived, according to Town Manager John Simko.

If the town were to purchase the building materials, Simko said it would cost about $20,000. The hangar lot and the associated fees would amount to about $17,500, he said.

“I favor the exchange; it’s a very beneficial arrangement for the airport and for the town,” the town manager said Thursday.

The proposed arrivals building, which has been on the drawing board for several years and was called for in the Airport Master Plan update, is on a fast track, thanks to a dedicated airport advisory committee.

Aware that town funds are limited, the committee has solicited donations from local businesses and individuals for the construction of the approximately $40,000 building. To date, the committee has received donations of a heating system, site work and a septic system, according to Simko.

The donation by Comber has been wholeheartedly endorsed by the committee, which said it was an easy and convenient way to get the building materials, Simko said.

The committee and town officials hope to begin construction on the building by the end of July.