HomeMy WebLinkAbout21884 - RESOLUTIONS - 5/9/2007 ' RESOLUTION NO. 21884
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, ENDORSING SENATORS
FEINSTEIN AND BOXER AND CONGRESSWOMAN
BONO'S REQUESTS THAT THE FEDERAL AVIATION
ADMINISTRATION RECONSIDER ITS PROPOSED
RELOCATION OF THE PALM SPRINGS TERMINAL
RADAR CONTROL SYSTEM FROM PALM SPRINGS TO
MIRAMAR IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY.
WHEREAS, the City of Palm Springs International Airport is one of the fastest growing
airports in the country serving the Desert Coachella Valley cities of Riverside County,
California, which is the second fastest growing county in the United States; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Aviation Administration has proposed the consolidation of the
Palm Springs Terminal Radar Approach Control system into the Southern California
Terminal Radar Approach Control program at Miramar near San Diego; and
WHEREAS, the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control facility at
Miramar is the busiest radar control facility in the world; and
' WHEREAS, the proposed Federal Aviation Administration's consolidation of Palm
Springs radar control functions to Miramar will not accomplish enhanced service or
provide significant economic efficiencies; and
WHEREAS, Congresswoman Bono's April 18, 2007, letter to the Federal Aviation
Administration — which was signed by twenty-three other members of Congress — calls
for the re-examination by the Federal Aviation Administration of its proposal to move
Palm Springs' radar control functions to Miramar; and
WHEREAS, Senator Boxer has led the U.S. Senate's Commerce, Science, and
Technology Committee in drafting language in the Federal Aviation Administration's
Reauthorization Bill that would delay moving Palm Springs' Airport radar functions to
Miramar; and
WHEREAS, Senator Feinstein has, by letter to the Federal Aviation Administration,
called for reconsideration and comprehensive study of all the potential impacts of the
proposed consolidation of Palm Springs International Airport's radar control functions to
the facility at Miramar in San Diego County; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Aviation Administration is holding a Public Meeting on May 10,
2007, at the Mizell Senior Center — Noia Auditorium — to brief the public on the
' proposed consolidation of radar control functions from Palm Springs to Miramar; and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs
that it endorses all of the collective actions of Congresswoman Bono and the signatories
Resolution No. 21884
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to her letter along with those actions of Senators Boxer and Feinstein in requesting the
Federal Aviation Administration to delay and reconsider its proposed consolidation of
Palm Springs radar control functions to Miramar in San Diego County
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED at the special meeting of the City Council of
the City of Palm Springs held this gth day of May, 2007.
David H. Ready, Cit germs
ATTEST:
james Thompson, City Clerk
'STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) CERTIFICATION
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS )
I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm springs, hereby certify that
Resolution No. 21884 is a full, true, and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a special
meeting of the City Council of the City of Palm Springs on the 9th day of May, 2007, by
the following vote:
AYES: Councilmember Foat, Councilmember McCulloch, Mayor Pro Tern
Pougnet and Mayor Oden.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Councilmember Mills.
ABSTAIN: None.
ames Thompson, City Clerk
City of Palm Springs, California