Councilman Seeks to End Pact With Airport Panel : Aviation: Ted McConkey calls for termination of Burbank’s agreement to cooperate with the commission.

Saying city officials and Burbank Airport commissioners are at odds over too many issues, a new Burbank councilman is calling for an immediate end to a year-old agreement in which the two promised to work together on all plans for the airport’s future.

The proposal by Councilman Ted McConkey to terminate the so-called Memorandum of Cooperation will come before the entire Burbank City Council on Tuesday, and is yet another sign of the lingering animosity between both parties.

McConkey, a frequent critic of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, said Sunday that he has long had reservations about wording in the agreement, which was signed about a year before he joined the council in May.

The 14-page agreement states, among other things, that both the City Council and the Burbank Redevelopment Agency accept plans for building a new, larger terminal and are willing to rely on the airport’s consultants to determine what size it should be.

“It is a bad agreement and should be dumped,” McConkey said. “It’s a different council and a different ballgame and we don’t want any part of this garbage.”

While it remains to be seen what the City Council will do, Burbank Mayor Dave Golonski said he believes that airport officials have failed to live up to the spirit of the agreement.

In April, he and other council members complained that they were not told until the last minute about a $109.8-million proposal by the authority to raise money and buy land for a new terminal.

“The intent [of the agreement] was to make sure we all work together in this process and that there would be no surprises, that one side didn’t go off in one direction without the other side knowing it,” Golonski said.

“It hasn’t really worked out that way, in my opinion. But the terminal project hasn’t gone very far either,” he said. “I don’t really feel the spirit of this agreement has really been upheld.”

The authority’s president, Carl W. Raggio Jr. of Glendale, could not be reached for comment Sunday.

But airport spokesman Victor Gill defended the authority’s actions under the agreement, saying: “The vision . . . was always to have the city have a significant role in planning for the terminal.

“If the agreement was canceled for some reason, I’m sure the authority would wonder why. There’s no reason to believe why that move was necessary.”

A provision of the agreement enables the City Council, Burbank Redevelopment Agency or Airport Authority to terminate it at any time with written notice to the other parties.