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Monthly Archives: June 2016

Rep. Royce Facilitates Local Control of Ontario Airport

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The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation cosponsored by U.S. Representative Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) to allow Ontario International Airport (ONT) to be returned to local jurisdictional control:

“Ontario International Airport is a major economic engine for our region in both trade and tourism, and giving local authorities control of the airport better allows them to meet the growing demand in San Bernardino County,” said Rep. Royce.

When both ONT and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) were operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), passenger facility charges (PFCs) could be imposed at one LAWA airport and the revenue used at another. PFCs collected at LAX were used to fund the new terminals at ONT in the 1990s.

The cities of Los Angeles and Ontario recently executed a Settlement Agreement to transfer control of ONT from LAWA to the Ontario International Airport Authority (OIAA), a local joint powers authority established by and between the County of San Bernardino and the City of Ontario. One element in the Settlement Agreement is that a certain amount of PFCs collected at ONT will be used for projects at LAX. However, this repayment is not possible under current law.

Today’s legislation, H.R. 4369, allows PFCs …read more

Source:: U.S. Rep. Ed Royce

      

Here are some of the biggest headline-grabbing cases in Fullerton PD history (News)

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Here are some of the biggest headline-grabbing cases in Fullerton PD history

By Lou Ponsi

From a murder case that led to the first-ever execution ordered by an Orange County court to the killing of a Major League ballplayer and two friends at the hands of reckless a drunk driver, the Fullerton Police Department has investigated some headline-grabbing murder cases over its 112-year history.

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Source:: Fullerton Police News

      

Block the Fox Block or Give it to the Blockheads?

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By fullertonrag Many years ago Fullerton’s city planners cooked up an amorphous project called the Fox Block to surround the historic Fox Theater on the Northeast corner of Harbor Blvd. and Chapman Ave. The original idea, it seems, was for the now defunct Redevelopment Agency to (what else?) subsidize a developer’s downtown project to help, somehow, make the Fox […]
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Source:: Fullerton Rag