2 COUNCIL WINNERS CREDIT THEIR RECORDS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer PALMDALE -- City Council incumbents Mike Dispenza and Steve Hofbauer attributed their re-election victories to their records in office. "I ran on my record and ran a very clean campaign, and I'm very gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that our residents responded positively to that type of campaign," said Dispenza, who runs an insurance agency and is back for a third four-year term. "My record was a key factor," said Hofbauer, an inspector with the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. , who won a second term. "I got in on strong public safety and a commitment to listen to my constituents, and I did that." The campaign was marked by personal attacks, most notably challenger Shawny Barcelona calling candidate Edwin Sandoval unfit for public office. She alleged he pointed a gun at a woman's head in 1993, an incident Sandoval said never happened. Barcelona, who finished fourth in the balloting behind the two incumbents and Sandoval, said she didn't know whether her campaign tactics backfired. "I think in the end, the voters saw the incumbents were doing a good job," said Barcelona, a business owner and Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fair board member. "I'm going to give them a lot of credit for that." Dispenza said he would work to address crime and public safety, water issues and creating more jobs so residents don't have to commute TO COMMUTE. To substitute one punishment in the place of another. For example, if a man be sentenced to be hung, the executive may, in some states, commute his punishment to that of imprisonment. . Hofbauer said he wants better analyses of crime to better deploy law enforcement resources and wants to see through to completion the new Palmdale hospital and a proposed city power plant. In the Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale , a $240 million school construction bond measure failed in Tuesday's polling, the second unsuccessful attempt in two years. District officials pegged the measure's defeat to a number of reasons, including the housing market slump, anti-illegal immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. sentiment and low voter turnout. Without the bond, school overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. will increase, leading to the prospect of cramming The unauthorized addition of services to your telephone bill such as an 800 number that you never ordered. The charges are usually noted on the bill, but are identified in a cryptic manner and/or are printed in a place that is easy to overlook. See slamming. more portable classrooms onto campuses. Other options that might be reviewed include double sessions and year-round calendars, officials said. Measure E would have assessed property owners $30 a year per $100,000 of assessed valuation; the money raised would have helped pay for building two high schools, completing construction of Eastside High and paying for improvements at existing campuses. The measure got just over 50 percent of the vote, short of the 55 percent needed for passage. In 2006, the district's $177.7 million bond measure got 52 percent of the vote. karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com 661-476-4586 CAPTION(S): box Box: no caption (LOCAL RESULTS) |
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