Santa Monica City Council Candidate Forum (SM Airport Issues)

Santa Monica City Council Candidate Forum
SM Airport Issues
THIS Thursday Evening
Oct. 5, 2006
6:30pm-9:00pm
Ken Edwards Center
1527 4th St.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
FREE PARKING
(enter driveway and proceed to the rear of the building for entrance to underground parking)

If the parking lot is full, you can park across the street at the Santa Monica Place for $3

Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution (www.jetairpollution.com) is sponsoring this event. It is supported by two neighborhood associations. On the west side of the airport , Friends of Sunset Park and on the east, North Westdale Neighborhood Association. A panel of six will pose a question each for the candidates. Questions will also be taken from the audience.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A FULL HOUSE. WE NEED TO SHOW THE SM CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES THAT AIRPORT ISSUES ARE IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITIES SURROUNDING THE SM AIRPORT

FOSP has been informed that aviation interests have encouraged to their supporters to attend.

IF YOU WANT YOUR VOICE HEARD, YOU NEED TO BE THERE!

Other Airport News:

AB2501

SM Councilmember and Candidate for re-election Kevin McKeown has met with Assemblyman Ted Liu to dialogue about AB2501. Last summer, Assemblyman Liu introduced this bill that would require SM to monitor the idling of turbine (jets and turbopropeller) aircraft for a full year commencing in Jan. 2007. The City of Santa Monica officially opposed AB2501 primarily because it was an "unfunded mandate." As an unfunded mandate, the state would require SM to conduct the data collection without providing a funding source. The bill passed in the assembly but did not make it out of committee in the senate. Assemblyman Liu is committed to reintroduce the bill in the next session. According to Councilmember McKeown, "We agreed that gathering data more scientifically correlated with the ongoing AQMD study data, and funding the study so the burden didn't fall solely on Santa Monica taxpayers, were both important improvements." We applaud Councilmember McKeown for reaching out to Assemblyman Liu to work on resolving the City's reservations regarding AB2501.

Changes in Staff at the SM Airport

After the resignation of former SM Airport Director Jeff Mathieu, Airport Manager Bob Trimborn has been appointed new Airport Director and his position of Airport Manager has been eliminated.

Supervisor of Airport Noise and Operations, Matt Majoli, announced that Stelios Makrides has replaced retiring Ted Walters as the new Noise Specialist. Mr. Majoli said the best way to register a noise complaint is to call the Airport Noise Hotline at (310) 458-8692. The noise office is staffed M-F. Even though data on a noise event is collected by the noise office in real time, the altitude and flight path are not available from the FAA until the next day. Therefore, the noise office usually responds to a complaints within a couple of days unless logged over the weekend. See http://santa-monica.org/airport/n_administration.aspx for a complete list of Airport Staff.

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