COLLEGE CHEERS BONDS VICTORY LOCAL, STATE FUNDS TO BOOST CANYONS.Byline: CONNIE
Connie is a British television drama made for ITV by Central Television and shown in 1985. LLANOS llanos (yä`nōs), Spanish American term for prairies, specifically those of the Orinoco River basin of N South America, in Venezuela and E Colombia. Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- After two months of arduous ar·du·ous adj. 1. Demanding great effort or labor; difficult: "the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language" Thomas Macaulay. 2. campaigning, College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. celebrated a big victory Wednesday after voters passed a local bond worth $160 million and a state bond that promises the college about $35 million more for renovations. Measure M, which also will cost the average property owner about $30 annually, was passed with 63 percent of the votes. The college also receive about $35 million from Proposition 1D, a state bond that will provide California's community colleges with $1.5 billion. The measure won with 54 percent of the votes. College of the Canyons spokeswoman Sue Bozman said the past two months were exhausting, but worth it. ``We were all doing our own jobs and in addition giving hundreds of volunteer hours to the college,'' Bozman said. Bozman said volunteers started Election Day working the polls and making ``nagging'' calls to voters to make sure they realized the importance of voting yes on Measure M. ``We needed to educate the community and let them know there was a huge need -- that is a huge job to do in two months.'' No formal opposition surfaced in the campaign. Measure M will cost taxpayers $9.73 per $100,000 of assessed property value and promises to add classrooms and upgrade aging utilities with considerable funds going to adding facilities for crowded study fields such as health care, law enforcement and computer technology. The bond also will build the first three buildings at the college's new Canyon Country campus, which is currently using portable bungalows as their classrooms. Bozman added that the college will start working strategies soon to form a Measure M Citizens Oversight
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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. bonds, the measure's victory was significant. ``I have never seen an election where there were so many endorsements; people from everywhere came to support it,'' she said. ``That is what made the difference.'' connie.llanos@dailynews.com (661) 257-5254 |
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