YAKIMA, Wash. -- A pilot's proposed remedy for the Yakima airport's Noland-Decoto delinquent rent problem didn't fly.

At a meeting Tuesday with officials from the city, county and airport, Bob Olsen suggested that he and other tenants pay their hangar rental fees into an escrow account rather than directly to Noland-Decoto owner Brad Goodspeed.

Olsen proposed that the first disbursement of those funds would pay the rent that fixed-base operator Noland-Decoto owes the airport for access to the airfield. The remaining funds would go to Goodspeed to cover his operating expenses.

But airport board chairman Bill Wheeler, Yakima County Commissioner Mike Leita and others at the meeting made it clear there's no turning back on terminating Goodspeed's lease with the airport, which is owned by the city and county.

Wheeler told Olsen that his proposed solution would have the airport "reinstate a lease with Brad Goodspeed, and that's not in the best interest of anybody."

"We'd be dealing with the same half-truths, the same bullying tactics, the same disparaging remarks" from Goodspeed, Leita said. He described the Noland-Decoto owner as "an adversarial neighbor" to the airport.