BOARD WEIGHS RENOVATIONS FOR CASTAIC VOTE WOULD GRANT FUNDS.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer CASTAIC - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
The supervisors will vote on whether to allocate funds to refurbish re·fur·bish tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate. re·fur the lake's bathrooms, rebuild its picnic shelters, add new ventilation to the administrative building and perform a litany of other scheduled improvements. The renovation funds come from state bonds designated for Castaic's capital improvement plan, and officials say the money cannot legally be used for anything else. ``The way to look at this is that the voters of L.A. County approved the bond, and that bond had money to improve Castaic. Whether it is operated by the county or state is secondary ... public safety is priority No. 1,'' said Tim Gallagher Tim Gallagher has been the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine since 1990. He played an instrumental role in the rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, as one of the first three searchers to see and identify this long-missing , director of the county Department of Parks and Recreation. Castaic Lake has been on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of closure since summer, when the county budget excluded the lake's operations. Suffering from a budget shortfall, county officials said operations for the state-owned lake should be paid for by the state despite a county contract to run the lake until 2017. State officials have said no state funds are available for the lake, popular for fishing, boating and swimming. Its status has been in limbo ever since, kept open only through emergency funding. 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 has been lobbying the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: rescind v. escalation of the motor vehicle license fee, money previously allocated to counties and cities, further tightens the county budget. ``We're working to keep the lake open, obviously, but who knows what's going to happen. L.A. County is losing $2 million a day due to the VLF (Very Low Frequency) See low radiation. . There may not be any parks open when it's all said and done,'' Gallagher said. The source of the renovation funds is Proposition A, which in 1992 and 1996 set aside about $2.5 million in bonds for capital improvement at Castaic Lake, Gallagher said. ``When those bills were passed in 1992 and 1996, nobody expected us to be where we are today. We have to work on the premise that we are doing everything we can to keep it open.'' Antonovich was confident that the renovations would not be in vain. ``We're confident that the lake will be operated for years to come,'' said Tony Bell, a spokesman for the supervisor. ``The idea is to make an investment in the infrastructure of the lake long term.'' Nicholas Grudin, (661) 257-5255 nicholas.grudin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): map Map: Castaic Lake Recreation Area |
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