AIRPORT COMMISSIONER REMOVED.Byline: Eric ERIC Educational Research Information Clearinghouse ERIC Educational Resources Information Center ERIC ERISA Industry Committee ERIC Epidemiologic Research and Information Center (Durham, NC) Wahlgren Daily News Staff Writer Despite a firestorm fire·storm n. 1. A fire of great size and intensity that generates and is fed by strong inrushing winds from all sides: the firestorm that leveled Hiroshima after the atomic blast. 2. of protest from residents, the City Council on Tuesday Tuesday: see week. ousted airport Commissioner Margie Gee, an outspoken critic of terminal expansion, from the Airport Authority. Councilman Dave Golonski first proposed removing Gee - one of three Burbank members of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority - last week on the grounds that she has been too hard line in the continuing debate over expansion. ``Margie has worked incredibly hard,'' Golonski said before the 3-2 vote. ``Margie has also come to the point where this is a personal war. We need to change the commission.'' Council members Golonski, Bill Wiggins William David Wiggin (born June 4, 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He has held the seat of Leominster since the 2001 election. and Stacey Murphy voted to remove Gee whereas Mayor Bob Kramer and Councilman Ted McConkey voted against the ouster ouster n. 1) the wrongful dispossession (putting out) of a rightful owner or tenant of real property, forcing the party pushed out of the premises to bring a lawsuit to regain possession. . Packing the City Council chambers, Gee supporters charged that officials were driving out one of the public's strongest advocates in the debate over air terminal growth. ``I feel betrayed by the City Council,'' said Burbank resident Lindsey Black-Brandt before the meeting. ``She (Gee) is doing what she is supposed to do. She is standing up for the citizens of Burbank.'' Kramer - who backed Gee on Tuesday - has argued in the past that since Gee was appointed to the nine-member authority for the second time in May 1995, she has been viewed as too argumentative Controversial; subject to argument. Pleading in which a point relied upon is not set out, but merely implied, is often labeled argumentative. Pleading that contains arguments that should be saved for trial, in addition to allegations establishing a Cause of Action or and obstructionistic by members from Glendale and Pasadena. Although Gee supporters admit that she has been a ``bulldog'' on the authority, they said she has been tough for a reason - fighting for the people of Burbank to limit airport noise, pollution and traffic. McConkey and other Gee backers say they believe a secret deal, not Gee's performance, may be the real reason some council members have been seeking to get rid of her. Glendale, which like Pasadena generally supports the airport expansion, recently removed longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective Airport Authority member Robert Garcin. Some Gee supporters say Gee may have been dropped in return as part of a special agreement. McConkey said he believes a deal was struck during secret mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, talks among representatives of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena that are designed to speed up the resolution of the debate of airport expansion. But Golonski and Kramer, who have taken part in the talks, vigorously deny charges that the move to oust oust tr.v. oust·ed, oust·ing, ousts 1. To eject from a position or place; force out: "the American Revolution, which ousted the English" Virginia S. Eifert. Gee arose from a secret agreement. Gee, who was removed from the authority during her first term in 1985, insists that she was not hard to work with and represented Burbank's best interests along with Airport Authority members Phil Berlin and Ingolf Klengler. A majority of the Airport Authority commissioners supports plans to meet the growth in passenger levels by building a new terminal with between 17 and 29 gates to replace the existing 14-gate terminal. Burbank officials back relocating the airport terminal and adding two more gates, but want stricter controls on growth and operations than what the airport finds acceptable. No potential replacement for Gee was discussed Tuesday. |
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