Lancaster Ca Government Agencies

The Lancaster City Council has voted 4 to 1 to disband the city's Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission, a five-member advisory panel that has been dogged by controversies and a lack of clout at City Hall. Councilman Frank Roberts, who prefers temporary, council-appointed ad-hoc committees to deal with specific tasks, sought the change Monday night. Mayor George Root cast the lone dissenting vote. The council is set to take a final vote on disbanding the commission in two weeks.

The Lancaster City Council has voted 4 to 1 to disband the city's Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission, a five-member advisory panel that has been dogged by controversies and a lack of clout at City Hall. Councilman Frank Roberts, who prefers temporary, council-appointed ad-hoc committees to deal with specific tasks, sought the change Monday night. Mayor George Root cast the lone dissenting vote. The council is set to take a final vote on disbanding the commission in two weeks.

The tumblin' tumbleweeds of Western song and lore, now becoming suburban pests, met the machine age Thursday. It was Machines 1, Weeds 0. As about three dozen county officials and area residents looked on with delight, a pair of large tractor-borne mowers plowed through one of the toughest tumbleweed fields the Antelope Valley had to offer, converting the pesky plants into desert mulch.

Los Angeles County supervisors will consider at their meeting today whether to commission a $300,000 study of development possibilities at Wm. J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster. Among other things, the study would examine the potential for expanding the county-owned general aviation airport into a commercial commuter airport.

A McDonald's restaurant manager has been appointed to the Lancaster Planning Commission and a Rockwell International project engineer has joined the city's Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission. Newly elected Councilman George Runner named Ken Mann, 39, to the Planning Commission and Bill Behnke, 41, to the parks panel. The appointments were unanimously confirmed by the full council on Monday night.

Lancaster, once a sleepy desert outpost, is now a city of 100,000 with a burden of big city problems--drugs, the homeless, overdevelopment, corruption, crowded schools and even gangs. Just when it seemed Lancaster had confronted all the usual metropolitan woes comes a new one: art wars. Lancaster's first attempt to institute a public art program to put donated paintings in city-owned buildings has broken down amid battles over who controls the program and chooses the art.

Los Angeles County supervisors will consider at their meeting today whether to commission a $300,000 study of development possibilities at Wm. J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster. Among other things, the study would examine the potential for expanding the county-owned general aviation airport into a commercial commuter airport.

Lancaster, once a sleepy desert outpost, is now a city of 100,000 with a burden of big city problems--drugs, the homeless, overdevelopment, corruption, crowded schools and even gangs. But just when it seemed that Lancaster had confronted all the usual metropolitan woes comes a new one: Art wars. Lancaster's first attempt to institute a public art program to put donated paintings in city-owned buildings has broken down amid battles over who controls the program and chooses the art.

A McDonald's restaurant manager has been appointed to the Lancaster Planning Commission and a Rockwell International project engineer has joined the city's Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission. Newly elected Councilman George Runner named Ken Mann, 39, to the Planning Commission and Bill Behnke, 41, to the parks panel. The appointments were unanimously confirmed by the full council on Monday night.

Lancaster, once a sleepy desert outpost, is now a city of 100,000 with a burden of big city problems--drugs, the homeless, overdevelopment, corruption, crowded schools and even gangs. Just when it seemed Lancaster had confronted all the usual metropolitan woes comes a new one: art wars. Lancaster's first attempt to institute a public art program to put donated paintings in city-owned buildings has broken down amid battles over who controls the program and chooses the art.

Lancaster, once a sleepy desert outpost, is now a city of 100,000 with a burden of big city problems--drugs, the homeless, overdevelopment, corruption, crowded schools and even gangs. But just when it seemed that Lancaster had confronted all the usual metropolitan woes comes a new one: Art wars. Lancaster's first attempt to institute a public art program to put donated paintings in city-owned buildings has broken down amid battles over who controls the program and chooses the art.

The tumblin' tumbleweeds of Western song and lore, now becoming suburban pests, met the machine age Thursday. It was Machines 1, Weeds 0. As about three dozen county officials and area residents looked on with delight, a pair of large tractor-borne mowers plowed through one of the toughest tumbleweed fields the Antelope Valley had to offer, converting the pesky plants into desert mulch.