BILL'S VETO FORCES COLLEGE OFFICIALS TO DELAY REPAIRS.Byline: Robert Monroe Staff Writer Valley College officials said Tuesday the sagging sag v. sagged, sag·ging, sags v.intr. 1. To sink, droop, or settle from pressure or weight. 2. wooden floors in some of the school's older buildings will have to hold up a little longer, and the louvered lou·ver also lou·vre n. 1. a. A framed opening, as in a wall, door, or window, fitted with fixed or movable horizontal slats for admitting air and light and shedding rain. b. windows will let precious air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. escape for a few more semesters. Valley is one of the decades-old campuses in the Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. that had hoped to benefit from renovation money that could have come from Senate Bill 1283, a piece of legislation vetoed by Gov. Gray Davis. District leaders said they would have to restrategize to find alternate ways to repair the more decrepit de·crep·it adj. Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use. See Synonyms at weak. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin d buildings on its nine campuses, including the three Valley schools. Members of the Board of Trustees' political action subcommittee met Tuesday to discuss what the district could do next. Kelly Candaele, president of the board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. , said that reintroduction Noun 1. reintroduction - an act of renewed introduction intro, introduction, presentation - formally making a person known to another or to the public of the bill is one option. ``One consideration is to go to the state chancellor and say `You were the main guy who opposed us on our bill and the main reason it was vetoed. So now what are you going to do to help us?' '' Candaele said. ``We are going to ask him to break free of the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. , which so far he has embraced.'' The bill would have restructured how the state funds projects with bond measure money. Candaele said that the legacy of former Gov. Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that , who he considers to have favored growth in suburban and rural colleges over big-city campuses, remains in Chancellor Tom Nussbaum and the state Community College Board of Governors. The board president said district officials might also consider putting feelers out into the community to see if voters would support a bond issue to raise money. Valley College President Tyree Wieder said she knew the bill would be a tough sell because it was competing for dollars from a limited pool of funds. Wieder said that her campus will try to get construction of a health sciences building higher on the priority list of state projects. It would replace bungalows on the south end of the school campus, the oldest and most deteriorated buildings at the 50-year-old school. Wieder said that those dangerous wooden floors will serve as the best evidence of need. ``Now it's become a health and safety issue,'' she said. Such emergency repair work might not be necessary at Mission College, one of the newest campuses in the district, but the college could suffer if funds that could be available for projects there must be diverted to repair hazards at older campuses, Interim President Tom Oliver said. ``It doesn't affect us so much, but it's really a shame because colleges like City and Trade-Tech, their infrastructure is so old, and they needed this to help them out.'' Candaele said the district may only have itself to rely upon for its modernization. The district has 9 percent of all full-time community college students in the state and only gets 3 percent to 4 percent of the funding, he said, vowing to find a way to close the gap. ``It's very clear with the status of the veto that we have to look for other ways,'' Candaele said. ``I'm not going to sit here for another two or three or four years and let this go on as a problem.'' |
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