LAX on a Budget

One important consideration is missing from your Dec. 19 article on the proposed renewal of the LAX public relations contract. What about the airport’s in-house public relations staff? This group of city employees is experienced, well educated and well paid. So why aren’t the Airport Commission, mayor’s staff and City Council talking about these employees? Is it because, like most city employees, they’re focused on their work and not on political campaigns and contributions?

Why hire an expensive contractor like Winner & Associates when the existing LAX public relations staff can do the job? (I was the city’s public relations director at LAX from 1988 to 1994.)

Lee Nichols

San Dimas