AVC BOND ISSUE FOR EXPANSION ON NOV. 2 BALLOT.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Voters will be asked in November whether they will support a $139 million bond measure to pay for building new classrooms and laboratories and making repairs and upgrades at Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. . Saying they are pushed by a growing enrollment and state construction aid rules that favor districts with money of their own, AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C officials will place a bond measure on the Nov. 2 ballot. The bonds would qualify the college district for state aid that officials hope to be as much as $417 million in matching funds Noun 1. matching funds - funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money for the construction. College officials say they need the money to update the aging Lancaster campus, start a proposed Palmdale campus and accommodate rapidly increasing enrollment. ``We need this bond, and I think we should put our best foot forward inmaking sure this passes,'' said AVC Trustee Earl Wilson
The bond measure, which will require a 55 percent majority to pass, would cost property owners $19.50 a year per $100,000 of assessed value. The ballot question to appear before voters will be namedAntelope Valley College 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. , Job Training Measure. The voting will involve both Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Kern counties, since the college district's boundaries extend from Rosamond in the north to Acton in the south and from Gorman in the west to the San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. County line in the east. Among the projects the bonds will help finance are the establishment of a Palmdale campus; the construction of a science and allied health building to ease overcrowding in nursing and emergency medical training and other courses; the construction of a new high technology learning center; and the construction of an automotive technology Noun 1. automotive technology - the activity of designing and constructing automobiles automotive engineering engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry building. The bond financing will also help pay for more parking; upgrades and repairs to classrooms and labs; the repair or replacement of water, gas, and sewer lines; and the expansion of the student services building. Enrollment is expected to double to more than 26,107 students by 2020. AVC officials said the Lancaster campus already lacks classroom, laboratory, library and office space. The college also needs about 500 parking spaces, college officials said. At the same time it is experiencing rapid growth, the college is also coping with aging facilities, with much of the Lancaster campus more than 40 years old. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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