LOS ANGELES : Harbor Department Trip Pared After Criticism
The city’s Harbor Department has scaled back a marketing trip to San Francisco and Honolulu after the controller’s office raised questions about all five members of the Harbor Commission attending just five months before their terms end.
Tuttle said he did not question the trip itself but took exception to the number of people taking it.
The trade mission began Monday in San Francisco and will go to Honolulu on Thursday and Friday, officials said. In all, 10 city employees, including Mayor Tom Bradley and Harbor Department Executive Director Ezunial Burts, went to San Francisco; seven of them will go on to Hawaii.
Initially, all five harbor commissioners and the board secretary were scheduled to go. After Tuttle raised questions last week, the department decided to send only two commissioners.
The purpose of the trip is to thank companies that use the Port of Los Angeles for their business and reassure anxious customers about the recent transfer of $44 million from the harbor budget to city coffers.
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