As the 20th Century came to an end, several significant events occurred which destined Roben Hood Airport to grow in a negative fashion. The first of these was the end of Linda and Chuck Hathaway’s airport management contract with the City. After that point, there was no contractual arrangement for airport management, with Bernie Johnson, Dave Bordano, and others working on handshake agreements. Sometime in the '90s, the City appointed John Griffith as Airport Manager, in addition to his duties as Transportation manager, primarily for DART. In that time, the number of operations at the airport declined from 6180 in 1990, to 2540 in 2000.