LOS ANGELES : D.A.’s Office to Review Search for Airport Chief
Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner’s office will review the Los Angeles Airport Commission’s plan to search for a new general manager from among the city’s executives to determine if that approach--taken without a formal vote--may have violated the state’s open-meeting laws.
The inquiry was requested by Councilwoman Ruth Galanter, who has attacked the commission’s plan to consider city applicants for the airport job before launching a nationwide search for a successor to Clifton A. Moore. Moore, the city’s highest-paid executive with a yearly salary of $181,812, will retire by February.
After Moore’s retirement announcement last month, Commission President Robert Chick disclosed that the five-member panel had informally agreed to begin its search for Moore’s successor in the city. But Galanter and a majority of the council have criticized that plan, with several accusing the commission of improper closed-door talks.
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