4 VIE AGAINST MAYOR COUNCIL SIGN-UPS CLOSE NEXT WEEK.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Four people are challenging Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
Running against Roberts are Gene Gaynor, a business consultant; William Fender, a former Lancaster court bailiff bailiff Officer of some U.S. courts whose duties include keeping order in the courtroom and guarding prisoners or jurors in deliberation. In medieval Europe, it was a title of some dignity and power, denoting a manorial superintendent or royal agent who collected fines and who is now a member of the California City Police Department; Anthony Booth, an Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. student; and Norm Hickling, a former Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. executive who is now a medical office manager. The nomination period for the mayoral race closed Friday. The election is April 9. Filling for the City Council seat races will close on Wednesday. The filling period was extended because incumbent Michelle Idleman opted not to run for re-election. At 19, Booth is the youngest of the candidates for mayor. One of his main goals, he said, is to improve the city's east side. ``I want to increase the amount of business on the east side,'' Booth said. ``There's not much going on besides your basic grocery store or video store. It's basically untapped.'' Booth also wants to improve Lancaster Boulevard between 10th Street West and Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , and to include the Cinemark 22 movie theater and the baseball stadium as part of a future entertainment complex. Gaynor said he wants to bring in more retail businesses to the city, giving residents more shopping choices and providing sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. revenue for the city. He also wants to focus on education and is trying to formulate a program that would assist those fresh out of high school with training or apprenticeships. Gaynor said he also wants to keep the city's rural feel. ``I don't want to lose the rural lifestyle,'' Gaynor said. ``I want to be able to step outside and still enjoy the desert.'' Attempts to reach Fender and Hickling on Friday were unsuccessful. Candidates who had filed by Friday to run in the council races are incumbent Henry Hearns, planning commissioner Ed Sileo, former mayor and councilman George Root, and Steve Malicott, executive director of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Chambers of Commerce. One other potential candidate, Andrew Banks, a state prison worker, has pulled nomination papers to run for City Council, but has not yet filed his paperwork. |
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