2 HIGH-PROFILE SANTA CLARITA OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE DEPARTURE.Byline: Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writer Two city employees, one who led Santa Clarita's Elsmere Canyon landfill fight and the other who managed its failed redevelopment plan, are both leaving, civic officials said Friday. Deputy City Manager Jeff Kolin, nicknamed the city's Elsmere Canyon landfill czar, is leaving May 3 to become city manager of Pittsburg, Calif. And Don Duckworth, who helped assemble the city's embattled em·bat·tled adj. 1. Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle: embattled troops; an embattled city. 2. $1.1 billion redevelopment plan, is leaving Tuesday to return to his redevelopment consulting business. There are no immediate plans to replace the two men, said City Manager George Caravalho. Instead, current employees will assume their duties with the city Parks and Recreation Department taking over Kolin's youth and community programs. ``We're not going to make any immediate decision to fill these positions until we go through the budget process,'' said Caravalho, adding that the positions could be frozen if there's not enough money to hire new workers. An eight-year city employee, Kolin recently led the city's fight against the 190 million-ton landfill, proposed two miles outside city limits in the Angeles National Forest's Elsmere Canyon. As deputy city manager, Kolin urged the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Regional Planning regional planning: see city planning. Commission to reject Torrance-based BKK BKK Bangkok BKK Betriebskrankenkasse BKK Bangkok, Thailand - Bangkok International Airport (Airport Code) BKK Big Knobi Klub (a Shadowrun Website) BKK Backus Kehoe Kydland Corp. landfill plans. He will start his new post May 6, overseeing 350 city employees and a diverse city of 50,000. Duckworth, hired as a city redevelopment consultant shortly after the Jan. 17, 1994, Northridge Quake, will continue his redevelopment consulting business. Following the quake, he became the city's redevelopment manager, helping form the plan that was killed in two lawsuits filed by the Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency, which feared losing more than $100 million during the plan's 30-year lifetime. If it had been approved, the plan would have used a portion of property taxes to finance various improvements throughout the city, such as revitalizing re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. Newhall, improving storm drains storm drain n. 1. A storm sewer. 2. A catch basin. and building roads and a network of bike and hiking trails. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color) Jeff Kolin City's ``Elsmere landfill czar'' |
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