AIRPORT AUTHORITY COMPLETES `FAIRLY FLAT BUDGET'.Byline: Andrew Bridges San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. Tribune The finishing touches finishing touches finish npl the finishing touches → der letzte Schliff finishing touches npl → ultimi ritocchi mpl were put on the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority's $71 million budget for the coming fiscal year Monday. It anticipates flat revenues, reduced operating expenses Operating expenses The amount paid for asset maintenance or the cost of doing business, excluding depreciation. Earnings are distributed after operating expenses are deducted. , and increased legal and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most fees. ``We think it's a fairly flat budget operationally. We as a staff have tried to keep costs down,'' said Thomas Greer, the Airport Authority's executive director. Large increases in budgeted legal and public relations costs reflect the continuing disputes over expansion plans, which have been fought by the city of Burbank. The airport's budgeted legal costs will jump to $1.4 million from $690,000, approaching what the city of Burbank has spent each year on litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . Public relations and advertising costs will jump $148,000 to $556,000. The budget will later be formally considered by the airport's nine commissioners. The biggest single budget item continues to be the cost of land and design work for the airport's planned 19-gate replacement terminal, with $42 million budgeted. The ultimate cost of the 130 acres slated for the new terminal is the subject of ongoing litigation between the Airport Authority and former owner Lockheed Martin, Greer said. The airport's operations and maintenance budget has been reduced by $800,000, thanks to a renegotiated contract with Glendale-based airport management company AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) A machine intelligence that resembles that of a human being. Considered impossible by many, most artificial intelligence (AI) research, projects and products deal with specific applications such as industrial robots, playing chess, , and the decision to contract out the airport's parking operations. The cost of sending airport commissioners, including Pasadena council members Chris Holden, Joyce Streator and Bill Paparian, to airport-related conferences will remain $106,000. The airport, which is in Burbank, is jointly controlled by Pasadena, Glendale and Burbank. It serves about 5 million passengers a year. |
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