Twelve Days Before Xmas, With No Prior Council Study, This Agenda Item Agendized For <nobr>Dec 13</nobr> Council Action Re Airport Customs Facility/Int'l Flights

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Twelve Days Before Xmas, With No Prior Council Study, This Item Agendized For Dec 13 Council Action Re Airport Customs Facility/Int'l Flights

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(Dec. 6, 2016. 2:50 p.m.) -- Twelve days before Christmas, without holding or scheduling any City Council study session on a hired-consultant's "feasibility study" of a customs facility (sought by JetBlue) that would turn LB Airport into an international facility enabling international passenger and cargo operations that couldn't be limited to a single operator, and without Council study of an accompanying City Attorney memo on the action's legal aspects, the following item has appeared on the Dec. 13, 2016 City Council agenda:

Receive and file the presentation and report of the Federal Inspection Service Facility Feasibility Study conducted by Jacobs Engineering Group;
Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to negotiate with interested Long Beach carriers or operators a financial agreement for the development of a Customs and Border Protection facility at the Long Beach Airport, subject to further City Council action for execution of the final terms and conditions of the agreement; and,
Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute and submit all documents necessary to the United States Department of Homeland Security for designation of the Long Beach Airport as a United States Customs and Border Protection User Fee Airport for the processing of aircraft, passengers and cargo arriving from outside the United States. (Citywide)

An accompanying agendizing memo is at this link.

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