City Representatives Elected to Panel on El Toro Base Reuse
The five city representatives to the Airport Citizens Advisory Commission were elected Thursday.
The Orange County Division of the League of California Cities elected the five, one for each county supervisor district, to advise supervisors on future use of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.
Elected were city council members George B. Scott of Fountain Valley, Mark Leyes of Garden Grove, John M. Gullixson of Yorba Linda, Tom Daly of Anaheim and Scott Diehl of San Clemente.
Now that those members of the 13-member commission have been chosen, the Board of Supervisors has until March 15 to appoint two additional members. These seven will in turn select the remaining six members of the group.
Measure A requires that the last six members include two aviation experts, two from “established community groups” involved in efforts to build a commercial airport at El Toro, and one each from business and labor.
However, the future of the controversial initiative and its mandate to build a civilian airport at El Toro is in doubt.
Threatened lawsuits by Irvine and Lake Forest to invalidate Measure A may hamper or stop the supervisors’ efforts to act as the planning agency for the base, which is scheduled to close by 1999.
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