City Council: Blackhawks, LATV, and an Audit

At tonight’s Los Alamitos City Council, meeting city leaders will take up three separate hot button issues in the community.

1. The City Council will consider hiring an accounting firm to audit the city’s finances, including its waste hauler franchise fees. The audit would likely garner significant public scrutiny because a group called Citizens For a Fair Trash Contract has sued the city, three City Council members, and the city’s trash hauler, alleging the city’s trash contract was unfairly awarded based on campaign contributions.
2. The council will consider a six-month contract with John Underwood and Community Schools and Media Partnership for programming at LATV, the local cable access station. The council will also consider plans to establish a five-member community cable commission to help oversee the city’s investments in cable TV.
3. Brigadier General Keith Jones of the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Base will give a presentation to the city Council on the base’s plans to move a Blackhawk helicopter company to Los Alamitos from Victorville. The proposal has raised noise concerns from neighbors, who live close to the base.

The City Council meeting is today at 7 p.m., 3191 Katella Avenue.