GOLONSKI FIRES BACK AT AIRPORT PANEL.Byline: Mary Mary, the mother of Jesus Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos). Her name is the Hebrew Miriam. Lou Aurelio Daily News Staff Writer A complaint that Burbank city officials are undermining the airport's efforts to study a curfew curfew [O.Fr.,=cover fire], originally a signal, such as the ringing of a bell, to damp the fire, extinguish all lights in the dwelling, and retire for the night. The custom originated as a precaution against fires and was common throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. on night flights and other noise restrictions brought a tart retort re·tort n. A closed laboratory vessel with an outlet tube, used for distillation, sublimation, or decomposition by heat. retort a globular, long-necked vessel used in distillation. from the mayor of Burbank on Tuesday night. The president of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority had complained in a letter to Burbank Mayor David Golonski earlier Tuesday that his city's abstention ABSTENTION, French law. This is the tacit renunciation by an heir of a succession Merl. Rep. h.t. on an Airport Commission vote to hire a study consultant demonstrates its desire for the study to fail. But Golonski, who read a sharply worded response at the City Council meeting Tuesday night, said it is the Airport Commission that is dooming the study. ``We suspect it is because the staff is committed to having the study fail in a cynical and manipulative ma·nip·u·la·tive adj. Serving, tending, or having the power to manipulate. n. Any of various objects designed to be moved or arranged by hand as a means of developing motor skills or understanding abstractions, especially in effort to show Burbank that noise restrictions are impossible at the airport,'' Golonski said. On Monday, airport commissioners from Glendale and Pasadena voted to hire consultants to carry out a Part 161 study, the first step in applying to the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control for a curfew. But Burbank commissioners abstained from the vote and Burbank city officials criticized the action, saying the authority is trying to cut Burbank out of the process. Golonski accused the authority in a letter of silently rejecting Burbank's request to be a full partner in the study, prompting the letter sent to him Tuesday from Joyce Streator, Airport Authority president and a Pasadena city councilwoman. ``Apparently your stated goal of caps and curfews is superceded by some other political or public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most objective that you are keeping from the public view. There is no other way to explain your unerring un·err·ing adj. Committing no mistakes; consistently accurate. un·err  ing·ly adv. calculations to foster failure,'' Streator wrote. ``Should the Burbank City Council now succeed in undermining the credibility of the Part 161 Study to the point where the study fails, the failure will be that of the City Council, not the Airport Commission.'' In his response, Golonski contends it is the airport that is not cooperating with Burbank. ``What Ms. Streator's letter says - or more properly does not say - speaks volumes about the airport commission's intransigent refusal to negotiate,'' Golonski said. ``Nowhere does she offer to cooperate with Burbank - instead she demands that we passively trust the authority's desire for fair and objective study.'' Golonski called for an end to name-calling and blame placing. |
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