San Fernando Valley : TAKING OFF
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Burbank Airport commissioners have spent nearly $90,000 for travel in the last three years, including first-class airplane trips to Maui, Toronto and the Virgin Islands, three limousine rides and an $85 massage at a Washington, D.C. hotel, according to documents obtained by The Times.
Between 1992 and 1995, records show, some commissioners on the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority spent as much as $218 per night for a hotel room in Maui and flew spouses to Nashville first class for $1,777 each.
The trips were to conferences of airport operators.
Among the biggest spenders on the nine-member airport authority are longtime Commissioner Robert W. Garcin of Glendale, former Commissioner John C. Crowley of Pasadena and former President Brian Bowman, who resigned from the board in May.
Garcin, Crowley and Bowman billed the airport for $12,639, $14,099 and $15,864 in expenses, respectively.
All commissioners interviewed Tuesday said they have done nothing to violate their own policy on expenditures . . .
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