HAHN WILLING TO MEET INYO COUNTY OFFICIALS.Byline: James Nash Staff Writer 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. Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California is willing to meet with Inyo County leaders who objected to a Hahn-appointed commissioner's attempt to link an airport lease in the Eastern Sierra county Sierra County is the name of several counties in the United States:
Deputy Mayor Doane Liu said Hahn would consider Inyo County officials' request for the city to extend a 20-year lease for a regional airport on DWP-owned land in Bishop. But Hahn hasn't committed to granting the request, Liu said. Inyo County supervisors requested the audience with Hahn after the Hahn-appointed head of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, Dominick Rubalcava, rebuffed their request to extend the airport lease by four years by asking Inyo County to offer something in return. Inyo officials interpreted Rubalcava's statement as a demand for more water from the Owens Valley This article has multiple issues: * It needs to be expanded. * It may need copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. and opposed it. The failure to extend the lease cost Inyo County about $1.5 million in federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve to upgrade airports in Bishop and Lone Pine, officials said. ``The Bishop airport has been leased to the county since the 1920s and operated continuously as an airport,'' Inyo County supervisors wrote in a letter to Hahn that the Mayor's Office said it received Friday. ``One might understand some delay if there were thorny issues such as a request for more land, a change of use, or other special needs,'' the supervisors wrote. ``That is not the case here. ``I am certain this matter could be resolved with a stroke of your pen if the DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection were not holding our airport leases as a bargaining chip.'' James Nash, (213) 978-0390 james.nash(at)dailynews.com |
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