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Mayor's Chief of Staff Wrote "RG -- Nothing" After Mayor Told Him He Has No Records Under Public Records Act Seeking His Communications With JetBlue And Re Company-Sought Airport Customs Facility/Int'l Flights


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(Dec. 3, 2016. 5:50 a.m.) -- LBREPORT.com has learned that Mayor Robert Garcia's Chief of Staff wrote the notation "RG -- Nothing" after Mayor Garcia told his Chief of Staff that he (Garcia) has no responsive records in response to a Public Records Act request (made on Oct. 20 by LBREPORT.com) seeking communications [memos, correspondence, letters, reports, emails, texts and the like] from his office that concern, refer or relate to a federal customs facility/international flights at Long Beach Airport or with JetBlue, which has asked the City to request such a facility.

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During a Dec. 2 telephone call, Assistant City Attorney Mike Mais told LBREPORT.com publisher Bill Pearl that Mayoral Chief of Staff Mark Taylor made the notation on a copy of LBREPORT.com's records request and sent it to the city's records coordinator (a city staffer who processes Public Records Act requests.) The notation was among roughly 1,200 pages of digitally-scanned pages (from five of nine responding Council offices) provided to the records coordinator and released to LBREPORT.com on November 22.

Mr. Mais indicated that four other Council offices (Mungo, Gonzalez, Pearce [incl. Lowenthal] and Andrews, which didn't initially respond) have since provided what he described as a "stack" of materials that the records coordinator will process for release in the coming days.

Among the Nov. 22-released documents were a relatively small number of materials from the Mayor's office showing light involvement by two Mayoral office staffers (Taylor and now-exited Brezenoff) on these issues but no documents reflecting communications directly attributable to the Mayor.

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A federal customs facility couldn't be limited to JetBlue and would effectively change LB's domestic-serving municipal airport to an international airport enabling international passenger and/or cargo operations. The issue could reach the City Council for voted action as soon as Dec. 13 or in the weeks thereafter if the Council first conducts a non-voting study session on Dec. 13. It would be the first and only study session to date by the policy-setting City Council on an Airport-hired consultant-prepared "feasibility study" on the customs facility accompanied by an independently prepared City Attorney memo on legal aspects of the action (reported and linked in full by LBREPORT.com here.)

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As previously rpeorted by LBREPORT.com, a Council decision on whether to conduct a Dec. 13 non-voting study session (proposed by Councilmembers Uranga, Price and Supernaw) will come to the Council on Dec. 6.

Further to follow.

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