{"id":12379,"date":"2013-03-24T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T15:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=12379"},"modified":"2013-03-24T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T15:09:39","slug":"faa-closures-endanger-public-says-antonovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=12379","title":{"rendered":"FAA Closures Endanger Public, Says Antonovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Press Release posted 3\/24\/13 &#8211;<\/em> &#8220;The FAA\u2019s politically motivated decision to shutter Los Angeles County&#8217;s Fox and Whiteman Airfields endangers public safety and has virtually no impact on federal spending,\u201d said Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich on the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s announcement that it will close contract air-traffic control towers beginning April 7 because of the sequestration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSequestration accounts for just 2.3% of a $3.6 trillion dollar budget,\u201d he added.\u00a0 \u201cEven with sequestration, the federal government will spend $15 billion dollars more in 2013 than it did in 2012.\u00a0 Furthermore, these facilities have already been funded by previous budget maneuvers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClosely situated near Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, the Whiteman contract tower plays a vital role in the air safety of the heavily trafficked skies of the east San Fernando Valley,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cThe Fox Airfield tower in Lancaster also coordinates hundreds of flights per year during wildfires when the Forest Service\u2019s tanker base is activated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County\u2019s Whiteman Airport and General William J. Fox Airfield towers are funded by the FAA but operated by private contractors at half the cost of federal towers \u2013 which are not being closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release posted 3\/24\/13 &#8211; &#8220;The FAA\u2019s politically motivated decision to shutter Los Angeles County&#8217;s Fox and Whiteman Airfields endangers public safety and has virtually no impact on federal spending,\u201d said Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}