“Hell no!!”

Those were the words written over the signature of Fairhope Mayor Karin Wilson on a recent resolution on the city’s Airport Authority land passed unanimously by the city council.

The resolution states the property located around the H.L. “Sonny” Callahan Airport remained in the hands of of the Fairhope Airport Authority and called for the city to subsidize the Airport Authority $320,000 per year for the next seven years.

Wilson said she did sign the expletive exclamation over her signature following a conversation with City Clerk Lisa Hanks.

“I told her after I signed it that I don’t agree with it, and I didn’t want my name on it,” Wilson said. “Lisa said that (Council President) Jack Burrell could sign it. She gave it back to me, and that’s when I did that. I did that more to make myself feel better more than anything.”

Wilson said the legal document was meant to be more of an internal item, and said the signature change was not an attempt at a mayoral veto of the resolution.

“The city clerk said I couldn’t veto it because the resolution wasn’t of a permanent nature,” Wilson said. “After talking with legal counsel, he agreed that the resolution wasn’t considered permanent, but some of the covenants I wanted included in the agreement could have made it that way.”

Wilson said she maintains her opposition to the resolution and leaving the airport land in the authority’s hands.

“If it was able to be vetoed, I probably would have done that,” Wilson said.