ROBERTS GETS TRANSIT POST; LANCASTER MAYOR WANTS SMALL CITIES TO GET FAIR FUNDING SHARE.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
(2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. board of directors, becoming one of four people who represent 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. County's smaller cities on the 13-member panel. Roberts said his task will be to make sure that the smaller cities get a fair share of transportation money doled out Adj. 1. doled out - given out in portions apportioned, dealt out, meted out, parceled out distributed - spread out or scattered about or divided up by a board dominated by city of Los Angeles
``We're kind of the 200-pound gorilla out there fighting off the 800-pound gorillas,'' Roberts said Friday. Roberts, a retired Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. dean who has served on the Lancaster City Council since 1992, was elected to the MTA board in a unanimous vote of the California League The California League is a minor league baseball league which operates throughout the state of California. Before 2002, it was classified as a "High-A" league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth of Cities Los Angeles Metro Division. The vote was a confirmation of his nomination last month by cities of the MTA's North County/San Fernando Valley Sector, which includes Santa Clarita, Lancaster, Palmdale, Glendale, Burbank and Malibu. Along with a representative from northern Los Angeles County, the MTA board of directors is composed of representatives from the San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. , South Bay and southeast Los Angeles County, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, the five county supervisors and three appointees - Los Angeles Councilmen Hal Bernson and Richard Alatorre, and real estate broker Jose Legaspi. Roberts will be filling the last two years of the term of Glendale City Councilman Larry Zarian, who stepped down. The MTA board's primary task in coming months will be to pick out which of 437 highway, subway, rail, bus and other transportation projects submitted by local governments should be granted the $558 million the MTA has available this year. In total, the 437 projects ask for $1.2 billion in funding, Roberts said. The board also faces the dilemma of what to do about a ruling that ordered the MTA to buy 532 new buses within 15 months on top of the 2,095 buses the MTA plans to buy by 2004. The buses would cost about $100 million, MTA officials said. An MTA seat doesn't mean Roberts can steer transportation money to his city, or to Palmdale or Santa Clarita, he said. The mayor said he intends to cooperate with the San Gabriel Valley, South Bay and southeast county representatives, selected like him by the League of California Cities. ``The plan will be to do everything in my power along with the other league representatives to see that the cities get their share of the money that is coming down,'' Roberts said. ``Generally the cities feel they haven't gotten their fair share,'' Roberts said. |
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