BRIEFLY : CITY TO OPEN BIDS ON TOWING PACTS.The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. voted Wednesday to open towing
contracts to competitive bidding Competitive biddingA securities offering process in which securities firms submit competing bids to the issuer for the securities the issuer wishes to sell. competitive bidding 1. in response to complaints by some firms that they have been prevented from competing for the lucrative franchises. The council action paves the way for the city to begin seeking bids on some of the Official Police Garage franchises this year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. police Lt. Charles Beck. The city plans to go out for bids on four of the 18 franchises each year until all have been subjected to bidding. Official Police Garage franchise holders have the exclusive right to respond to police calls to tow and store cars involved in accidents and crimes in each of the city's 18 police divisions. SOURCE: - Daily News Panel backs limits on Van Nuys flights The 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. Board of Airport Commissioners voted Tuesday to extend by one hour the takeoff curfew for the noisier jets at Van Nuys Airport Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY, FAA LID: VNY) is a public airport located in Van Nuys, California in the San Fernando Valley, within the Los Angeles city limits. . The curfew, currently 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., would be extended to 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., restricting noisier craft from taking off between those hours except in cases of emergency. The extension requires approval of the Los Angeles City Council before it takes effect. SOURCE: - Daily News O.C. detective killed by train YORBA LINDA Yorba Linda (yôr`bə lĭn`də), city (1990 pop. 52,422), Orange co., S Calif., in a region of citrus fruit; inc. 1967. The city has grown tremendously along with the southern California area; its population increased fivefold between - A veteran police detective searching railroad tracks for a gun was hit and killed by a speeding freight train Wednesday. Terry Lee Fincher, a 16-year veteran of the Brea Police Department, was pronounced dead at the scene after he was hit about 8:30 a.m. by a Santa Fe Railway train, Brea Sgt. Tom Flenniken said. It was unclear whether Fincher, 48, heard the train's horn or the shouted warnings of fellow officers. The officers were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a gun used in an assault, Flenniken said. The train's crew first saw Fincher walking in the middle of the tracks but said he stepped off to the side moments before he was hit, indicating he may have thought the train would miss him, railroad officials said. Flenniken said Fincher may have been sucked into the train as it rushed by at about 50 mph. SOURCE: - Associated Press |
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