Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport Authority

Saying he had philosophical differences with the Glendale City Council, Carl Raggio resigned Wednesday as one of the city's three representatives to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority. Raggio said he stepped down after 12 years because of what he called the Glendale City Council's refusal to recognize the Airport Authority as a separate government entity and because council members were instructing commissioners how to vote.

Three representatives from Burbank Airport will discuss the airport's possible expansion at Tuesday's monthly meeting of the Studio City Residents Assn. Scheduled to appear are Mary Knuckles, community relations manager for the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, Sean McCarthy, the authority's assistant public affairs director, and Sherry Avery, the FAA's director of tower operations at the airport.

A state court of appeal has ruled that a Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority subcommittee violated state law covering public access during a closed meeting nearly two years ago, officials said. The court, which did not impose a penalty, ruled that the authority's legal committee technically violated the Ralph M. Brown Act when it discussed a matter not on the agenda for its Dec. 12, 1994, meeting, officials said.

Burbank Airport Commissioner William M. Paparian filed a claim against the city Monday, saying he suffered mental distress and a damaged reputation after a Burbank councilman alleged that he and others misused public funds while traveling on airport-related trips. Paparian, the 46-year-old mayor of Pasadena, is one of three commissioners representing Pasadena on the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, the nine-member board that oversees the airport's operations.

The president of the board overseeing Burbank Airport said Thursday he will put an immediate end to a longstanding policy of providing free first-class air travel to airport commissioners and their spouses during business trips. Acknowledging that he has flown first-class at the airport's expense, Carl W. Raggio Jr., president of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, said he now believes it is inappropriate for commissioners to do so.

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.

The Burbank City Council has named the former leader of a disbanded homeowners anti-noise group to be its third representative to the board of commissioners overseeing Burbank Airport. By temporarily appointing Margie A. Gee to replace Brian B. Bowman, who resigned last week as president of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, the council has three new commissioners against airport expansion. Like her recently named colleagues, Philip E.

The Los Angeles city attorney was asked Friday to explore the possibility of filing a legal challenge against plans to build a new $200-million terminal at Burbank Airport. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority voted unanimously Monday to build a 670,000-square-foot terminal with 12,300 parking spaces. The new terminal would be nearly four times the size of the existing facility.

Saying that safety must be paramount, Burbank Airport officials on Monday refused demands by Los Angeles political leaders and noise protesters that they try to reroute more departing jetliners over the three cities that own the airport. The unanimous decision by the nine members of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority drew strong protests from Los Angeles lawmakers and predictions of a lawsuit.

The Burbank City Council, which for years has been unsuccessfully pressuring the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority to hold its meetings at night so the public can more easily attend, now wants the meetings broadcast on television. The council voted Tuesday to ask the airport commission to allow the taping of its Monday morning meetings for broadcast during evening hours. The tape delay would allow residents who cannot attend the meetings to become involved with airport issues, said Commissioner Mary Lou Howard, who represents Burbank on the panel.