3 VALLEY SCHOOLS TO GET ANTI-GANG AID.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer Three middle schools in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. would be targeted for gang intervention through $1 million in contracts recommended Monday by a City Council panel as part of the new L.A. Bridges program. The council's Ad Hoc Committee ad hoc committee A committee formed with the purpose of addressing a specific issue or issues, which theoretically is disbanded once its raison d'etre is finished on Gangs and Juvenile Justice recommended that a consortium headed by the group New Directions for Youth receive $680,000 to provide anti-gang services at Maclay and Pacoima middle schools, three weeks after the same panel balked balk v. balked, balk·ing, balks v.intr. 1. To stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump. 2. at endorsing the contracts because of a poor proposal by the provider. Councilman Mike Feuer said he was prepared Monday to recommend the contract because the consortium rewrote its proposal to the city, improving its rating from 58 to 77 out of a perfect score of 100. Feuer had been concerned that the consortium's first competitive bid fell short of the 70 rating that the city had set as the minimum fundable score. ``I'm comfortable with that,'' Feuer said of the new proposal's rating. ``As I said before we have to meet minimum criteria, but when you satisfy those it's important to move forward.'' In addition, the council panel recommended Monday that a consortium headed by the social-service group El Centro El Centro (ĕl sĕn`trō), city (1990 pop. 31,384), seat of Imperial co., SE Calif., near the Mexican border; inc. 1908. It is a processing and shipping center for a heavily irrigated agricultural region (vegetables, grain, cotton, de Amistad be given a $340,000 contract to provide gang intervention at Fulton Middle School Fulton Middle School is a school in Fountain Valley, California, in the US, serving grades 6-8. The principal is Chris Christensen, and the assistant is Chris Mullen. . Linda Gallegos, an administrator for the group, said the program will include youth counseling, after-school recreation, mentoring and mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, for young people. ``We're going to target the school's students and prevent them from getting into gangs,'' Gallegos said. The recommendations for the contracts now go to the full City Council, which is expected to approve the pacts in the next few weeks. |
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