Part 150 IndexThe Van Nuys Airport Part 150 Steering Committee failed to meet on 6-21-01 due to lack of a Quorum
This letter was submitted by Charles Brink
The part 150 process has been ongoing as long as Mayor Riordan and the current LAWA dictators have been in office. On May 29th, the 150 Steering Committee held a meeting without continuing the meeting to a date certain. When asked, they refused to advise the public of the new date. On May 31st (just two days later) Mark Shaffer wrote a letter to LAWA asking that the meeting be rescheduled 6-21-01. By not continuing it to a date certain at the last public meeting, no one in the audience and most of the participants were unaware it would come up so soon. It is just common courtesy to announce to the public when a meeting will be rescheduled unless you don't want the public to participate.
And clearly that is the desire. To add fuel to the fire, I just reviewed a LAWA agenda [See page 31] of the June 26th special meeting and item 29 is guess what, the approval of the part 150 study. These arrogant jet jockeys intended to pass this tonight and in three business days go directly to the lame duck LAWA where they will probably drop the community recommendations by striking all the noise mitigations as vague, modifying them and trivializing them to nothingness.
All of these changes will be done in secret in their high temple at LAX away from the prying eyes of the Valley Residents. The VNY CAC, which is scheduled to discuss this item at its July 10th meeting, will never see it. And the LAWA dictators tried to do the same thing with the RETLAW lease.
LAWA as always is arrogant and believes the public is just an annoyance to them and their agenda of damn the public and bring on the noisy jets. And what has been moving ever so slow for eight years will be passed like a stage two jet screaming down the runway and over our homes in just days. Because they know in just a few days, on the 1st, a substantially new city council and Mayor takes office.
We strongly hope that the new counsel and the Mayor will listen to the residents and provide a balance on the impact of noise on the residents verses the impact on a few rich pockets that buy access to politicians and control of voters and residents' lives.