Bill Wiggins

Burbank City Councilman Bill Wiggins has formed an exploratory committee as he considers running for the 43rd Assembly District seat in 1996. Wiggins, a Republican who served as Burbank's mayor in 1994 and has expressed conditional support for an expanded terminal at the Burbank Airport, said he is unsure when he will decide whether to run. The 43rd Assembly District encompasses Glendale, Burbank, Los Feliz, Silver Lake and parts of Hollywood.

Mayor Bill Wiggins, Councilman Dave Golonski and newcomer Stacey Murphy all won City Council seats in Tuesday's municipal primary, eliminating the need for a council runoff in April's general election. A runoff election will be needed, however, for two school board seats. More than 50% of the voters cast ballots for Wiggins, Golonski and Murphy. Voters could cast votes for each of the three available council seats.

Burbank Mayor Bill Wiggins praised the city's economic progress in the past year during a brief state of the city address on Thursday. Speaking at the Burbank Airport Hilton, he pointed with pride to a balanced budget of more than $330 million for the 1994-95 fiscal year and a growing number of businesses opening in the Burbank Village area in downtown. But the California recession and massive layoffs by the Lockheed Corp.

Burbank City Councilman Bill Wiggins has formed an exploratory committee as he considers running for the 43rd Assembly District seat in 1996. Wiggins, a Republican who served as Burbank's mayor in 1994 and has expressed conditional support for an expanded terminal at the Burbank Airport, said he is unsure when he will decide whether to run. The 43rd Assembly District encompasses Glendale, Burbank, Los Feliz, Silver Lake and parts of Hollywood.

Mayor Bill Wiggins, Councilman Dave Golonski and newcomer Stacey Murphy all won City Council seats in Tuesday's municipal primary, eliminating the need for a council runoff in April's general election. A runoff election will be needed, however, for two school board seats. More than 50% of the voters cast ballots for Wiggins, Golonski and Murphy. Voters could cast votes for each of the three available council seats.

Burbank Mayor Bill Wiggins heads City Hall in the same way he runs his metal-finishing company in Glendale: stressing the need to keep costs down and emphasizing a close working relationship with those around him. In the two months since he became mayor, Wiggins has developed a reputation as an accessible consensus-builder who is still learning the ropes but is trying hard.

During the final weeks of his one-year term as Burbank's mayor, Bill Wiggins has been caught in the middle of an increasingly vitriolic debate over expansion efforts at Burbank Airport. Wiggins supports the first phase of expansion, which would boost the number of commercial flights nearly 10% and eventually allow the airport to accommodate 5.4 million passengers a year. But when he and his colleagues on the Burbank City Council received last-minute word of a $109.

The Burbank Chamber of Commerce and the Burbank Board of Realtors will hold a forum Tuesday for candidates running for city offices in the upcoming primary election. Candidates for the City Council, school board and city clerk's office will participate in the forum at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Burbank Board of Realtors building, 2006 W. Magnolia Blvd.

Surrounded by friends, family members and city officials, three newly elected Burbank City Council members were inducted Saturday at a special meeting of the City Council. The new members--Dave Golonski, Bill Wiggins and Susan Spanos--took their oaths in the council chambers at City Hall. Elected in last month's run-off election, the three will replace council members Tom Flavin, Michael Hastings and Tim Murphy. Council members George E. Battey Jr. and Robert R. Bowne remain on the council.

In remembrance of those affected by the Holocaust, Burbank has scheduled a series of educational and memorial programs, including talks by survivors of the Nazi death camps and the American soldiers who liberated them.

During the final weeks of his one-year term as Burbank's mayor, Bill Wiggins has been caught in the middle of an increasingly vitriolic debate over expansion efforts at Burbank Airport. Wiggins supports the first phase of expansion, which would boost the number of commercial flights nearly 10% and eventually allow the airport to accommodate 5.4 million passengers a year. But when he and his colleagues on the Burbank City Council received last-minute word of a $109.

Burbank Mayor Bill Wiggins praised the city's economic progress in the past year during a brief state of the city address on Thursday. Speaking at the Burbank Airport Hilton, he pointed with pride to a balanced budget of more than $330 million for the 1994-95 fiscal year and a growing number of businesses opening in the Burbank Village area in downtown. But the California recession and massive layoffs by the Lockheed Corp.

Burbank Mayor Bill Wiggins heads City Hall in the same way he runs his metal-finishing company in Glendale: stressing the need to keep costs down and emphasizing a close working relationship with those around him. In the two months since he became mayor, Wiggins has developed a reputation as an accessible consensus-builder who is still learning the ropes but is trying hard.

Mayor Bill Wiggins, Councilman Dave Golonski and newcomer Stacey Murphy all won City Council seats in Burbank's municipal primary Tuesday, eliminating the need for a council runoff in April's general election. A runoff election will be needed for two school board seats, however. Wiggins, Golonski and Murphy each received more than 50% of the votes cast for the three council seats sought by eight candidates.

Citing the need to improve its public image, the board of commissioners overseeing Burbank Airport has agreed to televise its meetings and to convene at night instead of Monday mornings. The changes were approved unanimously Monday by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, which was forced to scrap its plans for acquiring land to build a new, larger terminal because of opposition from the Burbank City Council.