A.V. SCHOOLS' BUS AGENCY HAS NEW CHIEF EXEC JENE JANSEN OF WYOMING WILL REPLACE KEN MCCOY.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A Wyoming state legislator LEGISLATOR. One who makes laws. 2. In order to make good laws, it is necessary to understand those which are in force; the legislator ought therefore, to be thoroughly imbued with a knowledge of the laws of his country, their advantages and defects; to and school official has been hired to head Antelope antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats. The North American pronghorn is sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae). Valley's school bus agency. Jene Jansen, 56, resigned his part-time post as a Wyoming state representative and quit his job as transportation supervisor for the state's largest school district to become chief executive officer of the 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 Schools Transportation Agency. ``I'm in the largest district in the state. There's nowhere for me to go, and I'd like a change. This one came up, I went for the interview and felt comfortable,'' said Jansen, who was transportation supervisor for 18 years at Wyoming's Campbell County
Jansen starts today supervising the agency whose buses take youngsters to and from schools in the Antelope Valley Union High, Keppel Union, Lancaster, and Westside Union school districts. Other local school districts run their own buses. A joint-powers agency operated by the four districts, the bus agency has an annual budget of $9.6 million, 184 employees, and a fleet of 178 buses that daily carry more than 6,300 students. Jansen is replacing Ken McCoy, who is retiring after 14 years heading the bus agency. Jansen has a two-year contract that will pay $85,000 annually, down from McCoy's salary of $90,227. AVSTA board members said Jansen's salary was lower for a number of reasons. ``Mr. Jansen is unproven unproven Dubious, nonscientific, not proven, quack, questionable, unscientific adjective Relating to that which has not been validated by reproducible experiments or other scientific methods for determining effect or efficacy to this agency. If we give a large salary it costs the districts more money, and the districts felt it was a competitive salary,'' said Alan Arjo, board president and Keppel's director of business services. ``Given Mr. Jansen's ability to grow with the JPA JPA Java Persistence API JPA Joint Project Agreement (Department of Commerce) JPA Joint Powers Authority JPA Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (Public Sevices Department of Malaysia) JPA Joint Powers Agreement (joint-powers agency), we are looking forward to having him join us.'' Arjo said Jansen's legislative experience was an advantage. ``We thought it would bring an additional benefit to the JPA. Mr. McCoy has been successful in going after state and federal grants, going through Assemblywoman as·sem·bly·wom·an n. A woman who is a member of a legislative assembly. Noun 1. assemblywoman - a woman assemblyman representative - a person who represents others Sharon Runner's and Supervisor Michael Antonovich's offices,'' Arjo said. ``We thought someone who has legislative experience can quicker get into that mode with our local legislators.'' Jansen was serving his first two-year term as a Wyoming state legislator. He was up for re-election this year and was running unopposed. He said the move to Lancaster will put him and his wife closer to their daughter, who is in the Navy and stationed at Lemoore Naval Air Station A Naval Air Station is an airbase of the United States Navy. Such bases are used to house Naval Aviation squadrons and support commands. List of Functioning US Naval Air Stations
Jansen said he lived in California for a short time when he was an officer in the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton and lived in Oceanside. Jansen said his wife also is eager for a change. ``My wife's from south Texas and she's begging to go,'' Jansen said. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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