ALL'S FAIR IN BUDGET REVISION; FUNDS OK'D FOR GROUNDS.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer The city will set aside $4.6 million toward buying 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 Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. and spend $958,000 to build soccer fields under a revised budget. The big ticket item in the city's midyear mid·year n. 1. The middle of the calendar or academic year. 2. a. An examination given in the middle of a school year. b. midyears A series of such examinations. budget revision is the funding for acquiring the 77-acre fairgrounds at Avenue I and Division Street. The total price for buying the fairgrounds will be between $5 million and $10 million, city officials said. The property acquisition is part of a joint plan by Lancaster and the fair board to relocate the fairgrounds to a 190-acre site west of the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. between avenues H and G-8. ``We have to buy it,'' Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The revised budget, approved 5-0 Tuesday night, includes $958,000 to build soccer fields, $150,000 to expand law enforcement efforts, and will increase street sweeping street sweep An investment strategy in which large amounts of a company's stock are quickly purchased. Street sweeps generally occur in the stock of a company involved in a takeover attempt. Also called market sweep. from once to twice a month at a cost of $73,000 through June. The additional $958,000 will add 12 more soccer fields to the soccer complex under construction between Avenues K-12 and L, near 30th Street East. By September 1998, the complex will have 29 fields. The midyear budget review shows an increase in projected revenues of approximately $1.4 million, bringing the total general fund revenues to $32.5 million. The additional revenues are coming from a variety of sources, including increased funding from the state from vehicle registration fees and gas taxes, additional funding from hotel taxes and from federal grants for law enforcement. The increase for law enforcement includes $50,000 for a child-abuse prevention program Antelope Valley Hospital is spearheading. That program is aimed at assisting families considered to be high risk for child abuse. And $100,000 will go toward the city's target-oriented policing programs. Those programs include gang and graffiti graffiti Form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Technically the term applies to designs scratched through a layer of paint or plaster, but its meaning has been extended to other markings. enforcement, prostitution prostitution, act of granting sexual access for payment. Although most commonly conducted by females for males, it may be performed by females or males for either females or males. sweeps and the city's target-oriented policing, or TOPBomb, program, in which two-deputy patrol cars are directed to problem areas or look for particular crimes. The city cut back on street sweeping after opting to drop an $80-a-year landscape maintenance tax and a $45-a-year street light tax in the wake of the passage last November of Proposition 218. Proposition 218 blocks municipal governments from enacting property-based assessments without voter approval. |
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