Kan. Stat. § 3-167
When an airport authority has been established pursuant to K.S.A. 3-162 and the members thereof have been qualified in the manner provided by law, such airport authority shall be vested with all powers, authority and control heretofore vested in the governing body, the board of park commissioners or other body of such city, so far as the same relates to municipal airports, and such airport authority shall have every power, authority and control over municipal airports as is or may hereafter be vested in a board of park commissioners, governing body or other body, except that all general obligation bonds required or authorized by law to be issued relating to municipal airports and all taxes levied for the maintenance or improvement of municipal airports shall be issued and levied by the governing body of the city.
K.S.A. 3-167