ANTONOVICH ASKS SIX FLAGS CEO FOR TALKS COUNTY SUPERVISOR LEAPS AHEAD OF MAYOR WESTE.Byline: JUDY O'ROURKE Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- A county supervisor may beat the city's mayor to the negotiating table on the future of Six Flags For the national flags of Texas, see . Six Flags (NYSE: SIX) is the world's largest chain of amusement parks and theme parks and is headquartered in New York City. There are 20 such parks run by Six Flags. California, Valencia, with its Magic Mountain theme park and companion water park, Hurricane Harbor. City officials publicly remarked last week that they would be interested in annexing Magic Mountain and pursuing some sort of partnering with the theme park's owner, but a letter from Mayor Laurene Weste is still in the works. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San sent a letter Tuesday to Six Flags Inc.'s chief executive officer, Mark Shapiro Mark Shapiro (IPA: [mɑrk ʃəpʰaɪro]) is currently the General Manager of the Cleveland Indians. , to request a meeting. ``The supervisor is committed to ensuring Six Flags Magic Mountain Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located just west of the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles. It opened on Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 1971 as Magic Mountain, by the Newhall Land and Farming Company,[1] remains a theme park,'' Antonovich aide Tony Bell said Wednesday. New York-based Six Flags recently announced that Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor are among half a dozen properties it may sell to reduce a $2.1 million debt. The Valencia parks are on Los Angeles County turf, just outside Santa Clarita city limits and within Antonovich's district. Six Flags spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg said Wednesday she could not comment. If the property were annexed to Santa Clarita, city government could offer incentives that officials say would save Six Flags hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, including freedom from utility, business or admission taxes. County government imposes a 5 percent utility-user tax and an admissions tax on tickets. Bell would not say whether any financial incentives would be on the table for the negotiations with Antonovich. Weste said the park provides needed jobs for many young people and is a ``huge domino'' in tourism that drops dollars into the cash registers of hotels, stores, restaurants and the nearby golf course. Magic Mountain is the No. 1 employer in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. and among county government's top 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. sources. Novak said any large sales tax generator in unincorporated areas is of interest to all five county supervisors, not just Antonovich. judy.orourke(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5255 |
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