An odd one out of Long Beach California on a settle ment of criminal misdemeanor charges for noise violations by the airline. JetBlue was paying $90,000 in fines, and the fine was being given to the Long Beach Public Library Foundation to buy new books and materials.
Then a JetBlue executive handed a big commemorative check to appreciative library officials in front of the council and the sparks flew.
Not that the library wasn’t a deserving beneficiary, council members Dennis Carroll and Val Lerch said, but the pair bristled that Reeves chose to allocate money collected from a criminal prosecution at his own discretion and without consulting the council.
Carroll called Reeves’ decision “a serious misjudgment,’ and said it’s the council’s job to determine where funds are spent or sent. Here’s The Full Story.
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