Wiggins moved over to the airport authority and convinced the airport there was a way to expand the airport without having a vote of the people of Burbank.
Then along came the secret letter in 2002 to the airport authority from the city relieving the airport of the responsibility to sell the property intended for an expansion. This failure to enforce the court-ordered sale of the Lockheed B-6 property after the city spent millions of taxpayers dollars, which would have put an end to most airport expansion fears, was, in my opinion, orchestrated by the City Council led by Dave Golonski, and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority commissioners led by Bill Wiggins.
Laurell goes on to credit Wiggins for various projects and "improvements" yet fails to hold him equally responsible for all the negative impacts that have come along with this so-called progress: nightmare traffic (Burbank/Victory boulevards), parking problems, high-density housing, airport noise and pollution, etc., caused by a lack of forethought and planning.
Laurell claims that Wiggins is "endorsed by Burbank firefighters and police officers."
The fact is he is only endorsed by the unions' leaders, not individual police officers and firefighters, and as was pointed out at the recent candidate's forum, none of the city employee union leadership ever bothered to contact or interview any other candidate to discuss their positions on the issues. Finally, and most laughably is the notion that Wiggins is "a new man for the new year." I assert that Wiggins is nothing more than a tired old man with the same tired old ideas he had more than a decade ago.
