PANEL ADDS AQUARIUM TO BOND BALLOT.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer A Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. panel voted Tuesday to support the
11th-hour addition of a bond issue on the November ballot for a new
aquarium in Exposition Park Exposition Park is the name of more than one place:
The measures' total price tag for taxpayers rose to $268.3 million. Some city officials noted that the aquarium is being proposed only miles from where Long Beach has spent $100 million on a new, state-of-the-art aquarium. ``This is worse than frivolous,'' Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. said. ``But it's also typical of City Hall to go ahead with something without looking at its impact.'' Some members of the council's Ad Hoc Committee ad hoc committee A committee formed with the purpose of addressing a specific issue or issues, which theoretically is disbanded once its raison d'etre is finished on Capital Improvements said they couldn't support the last-minute aquarium project after agreeing that police and fire bond measures must be delayed for close scrutiny of an oversight committee before going to the voters. The council committee on Tuesday also left open the possibility of the full council voting July 31 to place a $740 million special tax measure on the November ballot to raise money for sidewalk A Microsoft service that was launched in 1997 to provide online arts and entertainment guides on the Web for major cities worldwide. In 1999, Microsoft sold Sidewalk to Ticketmaster, which continued to provide guides, ticketing and other information to the MSN network. repairs. But the council panel decided to delay, until April or June 1999, proposals for $1.28 billion in police and fire bond measures. Council members said an oversight committee needs to give more scrutiny to the police and fire proposals and make sure they are priorities that can be delivered as promised to the voters. ``It gives us plenty of time to cross our t's and dot our i's,'' Councilwoman Laura Chick said. The proposed police bond measure would provide money to buy the Department of Water and Power's Anthony Office Building in Sun Valley to serve as a second LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Valley Bureau headquarters facility. Chick asked council President John Ferraro John Ferraro (May 14 1924—April 17 2001) served as a Los Angeles City Councilman from 1966 until his death. Early life Ferraro was born in the working class suburb of Cudahy, California, just south of Los Angeles. on Tuesday to request that 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 not sell the building to anyone else while a police bond is put on the ballot in 1999. Citing concerns about a lack of scrutiny and inadequate review, Chick and Councilman Mike Feuer voted against Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas' last-minute proposal to put a $44.5 million bond measure on the November ballot for improvements at Exposition Park. The measure would provide $30 million toward the $60 million construction cost of a new aquarium and science center, and would upgrade the rose garden and swim stadium. It was supported by Councilmen John Ferraro and Richard Alatorre Richard Alatorre is a politician, and a member of the Democratic Party. Alatorre has served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He was the first Latino to serve on the council in 23 years. , in addition to Ridley-Thomas. The 3-2 committee vote sends the Exposition Park measure to the full council, where it will be considered today along with a $178 million library bond and a $45 million bond measure to improve the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. . ``As we talk about places of significance in our city that are public facilities, there is no denying the extraordinary benefits that have been afforded by the explosion of activity in the Exposition Park community,'' Ridley-Thomas said. The bulk of the bond money would go to expanding the new California Science Center The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State by paying half of the $60 million cost for a new Pacific Environmental Science Learning Center, combining aquarium exhibits with interactive science exhibits. Jeff Rudolph, the executive director of the California Science Center, said the new facility will be an asset to the whole city. However, Feuer refused to support going to the voters for it now, noting that the proposal was submitted for the first time to council members Tuesday, just one day before the deadline for drafting measures for the November ballot. ``This is completely new to me,'' he told his colleagues. ``Today, it's just premature for me to get on board.'' The zoo proposal was also a last-minute idea, having been submitted Thursday. Feuer was the lone vote Tuesday against putting the zoo measure on the November ballot, saying: ``My vote today is a reflection of the lack of process and substantive discussion that got us here.'' Daily News Staff Writer Rick Orlov contributed to this report. |
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