BURBANK EXPECTED TO FIRE ADVISER FOR SLUR.

Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer

A member of a Burbank advisory panel is expected to be ousted by the City Council tonight after using a racial slur in reference to the Japanese owners of Sony Corp. last week.

Mike Nolan, who sits on the advisory board to the Public Service Department, called the owners ``g----'' in the course of criticizing the city's redevelopment agency for providing incentives to companies to relocate in Burbank.

Sony had not received the incentives, city officials said.

``I'm sure there's enough support on the council to toss Mr. Nolan,'' said Councilman Bob Kramer. ``We feel it's wrong for anyone to come to a council meeting and use racial slurs. If you don't remove him, it would be like condoning his actions.''

Nolan did not return repeated phone calls Monday.

Peter Wilkes, a spokesman for Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, declined comment on Nolan's statement. Sony Corp., the parent company of Sony Pictures Entertainment, is based in Tokyo.

Stewart Kwoh, executive director of the Asian-Pacific-American Legal Center in downtown Los Angeles, said ``strong action'' should be taken against Nolan.

``The term that was used is very racially derogatory,'' Kwoh said. ``This was really inappropriate behavior.''

Council members immediately chastised Nolan's slur at the meeting and demanded that he apologize. But Nolan declined, saying that as a Vietnam veteran he is entitled to express his views about Asians.

``He tried to infer that because he had been to Vietnam that he was entitled to come back and use that kind of language,'' said Kramer, who also served in the military in Vietnam.

Council members agreed last week that they would vote on whether to oust Nolan tonight.

Kramer said he supported appointing Nolan to the panel, which oversees the city's utilities, to fill a vacancy last year. He said Nolan has broad knowledge of the electrical industry.

It's the second time the Burbank City Council has moved to dump Nolan in the middle of an appointed term.

In 1991, the council, then made up of five entirely different members, voted to remove Nolan as the city's representative on the Metropolitan Water District Board, citing both his aggressive style and his high travel expenses.

Nolan said at the time that all of his travel expenses were proper, claiming his MWD ouster was a political payback because he supported the council campaign of Mary Lou Howard, a former member of the council.