AQMDS SHARE STAFF DESERT, VALLEY BOARDS INK PACT.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - 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 Air Quality Management District has rehired the staff of the neighboring Mojave Desert Mojave or Mohave Desert, c.15,000 sq mi (38,850 sq km), region of low, barren mountains and flat valleys, 2,000 to 5,000 ft (610–1,524 m) high, S Calif.; part of the Great Basin of the United States. district to manage its operations for five more years. The governing board Noun 1. governing board - a board that manages the affairs of an institution board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members" of the 5-year-old Antelope Valley district, a joint operation of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County government and the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, approved a five-year agreement with an option to extend it for two additional years. ``I can see no reason why we'd be less than happy with this arrangement,'' said Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The governing board approved the new agreement Tuesday on a 5-0 vote. The Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District's staff has served both AQMDs since Antelope Valley's was created in 1997. Under the agreement, the Antelope Valley district, which has a 2002-03 budget of about $1.1 million, will pay the Mojave Desert district for the equivalent of 6 1/2 full-time employees. Contract costs will amount to about $900,000 a year, officials said. The 2002-03 spending is expected to be down about 5.9 percent as the district streamlines its work, officials said. The Antelope Valley district has a Lancaster office with three employees, and it can call on a share of work from the 40 employees in the the Mojave Desert district's Victorville office, officials explained. The Mojave Desert district bills the Antelope Valley district monthly for services and materials. Local environmental activist Lyle Talbot Lyle Talbot (February 8, 1902 - March 2, 1996), born Lisle Henderson in Pittsburgh but raised in a small Nebraska town, was a Hollywood actor best known for playing Joe Randolph on television's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet told the board it was time for the Antelope Valley district to employ its own staff, rather than rely on employees headquartered in Victorville. Mojave District staffers gave the Antelope Valley board bad advice in 1998 by warning that it faced a lawsuit if it ordered a proposed sewage- sludge composting operation to be enclosed, and they later watered down a letter urging state restrictions on the use of sewage sludge as farm fertilizer, Talbot said. ``It's about time It's About Time may refer to:
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