ARTS CENTER'S FUNDING QUESTIONED.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer State Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys, said Monday night that he supports a proposal for a $750,000 cultural arts center project at San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Middle School, but feels the funding should go through the city of San Fernando rather than the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . ``I would trust San Fernando more than LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) ,'' Alarcon said, expressing concern about the school district's handling of money for other projects. The city is working with the school district and Time Warner on the first phase of the cultural arts center project at the middle school auditorium, which is slated to contain a state-of-the-art computer graphics laboratory and other cultural arts facilities. San Fernando officials met with Alarcon on Monday to solicit his support for the cultural arts project and other city needs. Some of the other projects of special concern in the city include a retail shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into at the site of the San Fernando Swap Meet swap meet n. An informal gathering for the barter or sale of used articles or handicrafts. , development of an entertainment center, and various public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. and capital improvements in the city expected to cost about $50 million. For the cultural arts center, Alarcon recommended that the city team up with entertainment studios to give San Fernando more leverage in getting the needed funding. ``I think it's a great project. This region definitely needs a cultural entertainment program,'' he said. ``This (entertainment) is the top industry in the region.'' In the meeting Monday night Alarcon said another 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. project he supports is a proposed $200,000 memorial to firefighters and law enforcement officers at the Van Nuys City Hall. He also outlined some of his pending legislation, including SB 510 for a bond measure that would provide $980 million for affordable housing. The funds would help first-time home buyers with down-payment assistance and provide low-interest loans for construction of apartments for senior citizens, the disabled, working families and farm workers. |
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