Local News in Brief : Panel to Consider Aid for Parks in Verdugos
An amended bill that would allow the City of Burbank to use $1 million in state funds to develop and improve parks in the Verdugo Mountains is scheduled to be heard today in the state Assembly Ways and Means Committee.
The $1 million is part of a $3-million grant Burbank received in 1985 to help it purchase 185 acres of privately owned hillside.
The state funds were to be used as matching money with Burbank funds and were channeled through the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
The Burbank City Council in June approved spending $554,375 to help it purchase 61 acres of a 185-acre site. But city officials said the rest of the state appropriation would not be sufficient to buy the rest of the property.
Since the state funds will revert to the state budget if not used by June, 1988, the council voted last week to amend the state legislation to allow the city to use $1 million of the state grant for developing park facilities and for other improvements that would benefit the Rim of the Valley trail in Burbank.
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