Management of Marina del Rey

In response to the three-part series on Marina del Rey leases, April 12-14:

I’m a little confused. Why are the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors causing citizens to lose $34 million to $59 million a year in land leases and then claim lack of funds for programs like AIDS?

Why aren’t the supervisors charging the maximum amount for the use of the land, just like the investors who are charging the maximum amount for the use of the improvements? And why are they allowing investors like Abraham Lurie and Jerome Snyder to fall behind on their lease and property tax payments to boot? And why, at the same time, have those supervisors collectively accepted more than $500,000 in cash in the form of “campaign contributions” as well as free food and lodging from those investors?

Maybe when Lurie handed supervisors amounts totaling $56,600, they were a little compromised. Or when former Supervisor Pete Schabarum called Snyder for $5,000, he, too, became a little compromised.

Aren’t we paying the supervisors a good salary to do a good job for us? I think there is something wrong here when trauma care, AIDS and mental health programs lack funding because of the supervisors’ compromised ability to collect it.

LORRAINE FARRELL

Santa Monica