Albert Lea city officials said Monday they are relieved an agreement has been reached to open the Federal Aviation Administration after a partial shutdown that idled tens of thousands of works and cost the government about $30 million a day.

City Manager Chad Adams said Albert Lea was at risk of some potentially serious effects because of the FAA partial shutdown, including a halt of the work on the Albert Lea Airport, which would have ultimately cost the city additional funding.

The project is under the supervision of an FAA employee.

Adams said there was also a risk that the runway would not have been able to have been certified, which would have forced the city to close it. This would have affected not only people who fly for fun out of Albert Lea but also the people who conduct business here via jet or other small plane.

“It would have had a pretty significant effect on the community — a pretty negative effect on the community,” Adams said.

If the shutdown had gone on longer, the city could have even faced having to pay Ulland Bros. — the company completing the airport upgrades — even though work was not able to be completed.

The shutdown ended Friday after President Barack Obama signed a temporary funding extension for the FAA. The measure was approved by the Senate earlier that day.

The shutdown began when much of Washington was transfixed by the stalemate over raising the government’s debt ceiling. During that time, the FAA furloughed 4,000 workers but kept air traffic controllers and most safety inspectors on the job. Forty airport safety inspectors worked without pay, picking up their own travel expenses.

Some 70,000 workers on construction-related jobs on airport projects from Palm Springs, Calif., to New York City were also idled as the FAA couldn’t pay for the work.

“This impasse was an unnecessary strain on local economies across the country at a time when we can’t allow politics to get in the way of our economic recovery,” Obama said in a statement.

Airlines continued to work as normal, but were no longer authorized to collect federal ticket taxes. For a few lucky ticket buyers, prices dropped. But for most, nothing changed because airlines raised their base prices to match the tax.

— The Associated Press contributed to this report