AVC PACT FOR LARIOS EXTENDED CONTRACT TO RUN TO JUNE '06.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - For the second year in a row, the 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. board extended President Daniel Larios' contract by another year. Larios' contract was extended by the board to run through June 30, 2006. The action does not include a salary increase, leaving Larios' pay at $135,000 a year. ``We're pleased to have him,'' said board President Betty Wienke. ``We're glad to be able to give him an extension on his contract.'' Larios became AVC's president in July 2001, replacing Linda Spink, who left the college after four years to become president of Los Angeles Harbor College Los Angeles Harbor College (LAHC) is one of two community colleges serving the South Bay region of Los Angeles. LAHC serves mainly students from Harbor City, Carson, San Pedro, Gardena, Lomita, Wilmington and the Palos Verdes Peninsula. . Larios was originally signed to a three-year contract, but the contract was extended to 2005 last year. ``I appreciate the vote of confidence,'' Larios said Wednesday. Larios said he wants to work with the staff to expand the college's honors program; continue to expand the partnership with California State University Enrollment  , Bakersfield's 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 center; develop an alumni program; and expand outreach into area schools. The college also will create an Equal Opportunity Employment office within its human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. department. That will be done within existing funding, Larios said. The creation of the EOE EOE See: European Options Exchange office was one of the recommendations made by a state technical assistance team that reviewed the college's hiring practices last October. Larios' biggest challenges might be budgetary. On Monday, the 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 board announced the layoffs of three employees in the CalWORKs program, a job-training project that is one of the funding areas targeted by state officials for reduction as a result of the ongoing budget crisis. The layoffs are the first in at least 20 years, AVC spokesman Steve Standerfer said. As a result of the budget crisis, Larios voluntarily opted not to draw any funds from a $10,000 account allocated to him in addition to his salary for corporate and community outreach. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Daniel Larios Seeks AVC improvements |
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