A LOOK TOWARD FUTURE COLLEGE MULLS BOND TO GROW.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer VALENCIA Valencia, region, Spain Valencia (välān`thēä), autonomous region (1990 pop. 3,902,429) and former kingdom, E Spain, on the Mediterranean. It now comprises the provinces of Alicante, Castellón, and Valencia. -- With enrollment increasing, College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. officials are looking at whether residents might support a bond measure to help the school expand. The college recently paid for a telephone survey of hundreds of residents, asking if they would support a bond measure. The last time the college did that was before the 2001 Measure C, which generated $82.1 million for the school. ``It would almost be fair to characterize that we constantly consider bonds as a funding mechanism for future planning,'' said Michael Wilding Michael Wilding could refer to one of three well-known people:
Wilding declined to release the results of the survey, saying the college is only at the preliminary stage of planning for a possible bond measure. No figure has been set for how much money the college could ask for if it put a measure on the ballot, Wilding said. With about 17,000 students, College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. Enrollment has increased about 9 percent annually for the last five years. The college is grading 70 acres in Canyon Country for a second campus. Measure C funds will pay for buying the property and building portables, but the college could use another bond measure for the total build-out Build-out is an urban planner’s estimate of the amount and location of potential development for an area. Build-out is one step of the land use planning process. Evaluation of potential development impacts begins with a build-out analysis. of the campus, Wilding said. More than $51 million in Measure C money already has been spent. Construction continues on two projects -- an expansion of laboratory facilities using $12.8 million in Measure C funds and a high-technology center supported by $11 million from the 2001 measure. If the college goes to voters with another bond measure, an expansion of facilities to train nurses would be on a short list of projects, Wilding said. Bob Stern, president of the Los Angeles-based Center for Governmental Studies, said government entities considering bond measures put a lot of stock in polls. ``It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have always good to go to the voters when you have a good economy asking for more money,'' Stern said. ``But you also have to worry about what else is on the ballot, so it's a real balance.'' Voters might be cramped cramped adj. 1. Uncomfortably small or restricted: cramped living quarters. 2. Difficult to read, especially for being crowded into a small space: cramped handwriting. for money, with rising gas prices and energy costs, said Kris Vosburgh, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association helped sponsor Proposition 13, the property tax-cutting initiative in California in 1978 which slashed property taxes by fifty-seven percent and initiated a national tax revolt. It was founded by California republican Howard Jarvis. . ``People are feeling uncertain about the economy,'' he said. ``And they're they're Contraction of they are. they're be not willing to go along with the bond tax increases that they might have approved just a few years ago.'' alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Construction has begun on the new College of the Canyons campus along Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling in Canyon Country. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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