COLLEGE OKS FUNDING FOR NEW CAMPUS WATER, SEWER LINES NEEDED.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - 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 College's board agreed to pay $5 million toward streets, water and sewer lines Noun 1. sewer line - a main in a sewage system sewer main main - a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage and other work needed to establish a Palmdale campus. The college will pay the $5 million to Western Pacific Housing Management Inc., which will pay the remainder of the $14.4 million to $17 million estimated for improvements on the 70-acre site at 37th Street East and Avenue V. ``We're looking at - hopefully - a temporary facility being ready in the fall of '07 or spring of '08,'' said 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 President Jackie Fisher. The college campus is part of the 540-acre College Park project, a proposed 800-plus-home development. In October, the college board voted to accept the donation of the campus site. The college is working with a company, AC Martin Partners Inc., to prepare a master plan for the Palmdale campus. The campus will evolve over time, with the initial campus expected to handle about 1,200 students. At completion, the campus will handle about 10,000 students. The college site had been owned by Bushnell Binoculars binoculars Optical instrument for providing a magnified view of distant objects, consisting of two similar telescopes, one for each eye, mounted on a single frame. In most binoculars, each telescope has two prisms, which reinvert the inverted image provided by the eyepiece founder David Bushnell Noun 1. David Bushnell - American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) Bushnell, Father of the Submarine , who died in March. The land for the campus is being donated by a development partnership of Bushnell Enterprises and Schoellerman Investments. The balance of the College Park land is being acquired by Western Pacific Housing, a division of DR Horton, the nation's largest home builder. Bushnell had first proposed providing the property as part of a housing development 13 years ago. Before state officials will allow construction of the second campus, the college must sustain an enrollment of at least the equivalent of 500 full-time students Full-Time Student A status that is important for determining dependency exemptions. An individual enrolled in a post-secondary institution may be eligible for certain tax breaks. Notes: The full-time status is based on what the individual's school considers full time. in Palmdale. The full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE) is a way to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or a student's enrollment at an educational institution. An FTE of 1.0 means that the person is equivalent to a full-time worker, while an FTE of 0.5 signals that the worker is only half-time. count stands at 114, said college spokesman Steve Standerfer. AVC now holds classes in part of a leased office building on Palmdale Boulevard. College officials said there is enough room at that site to build up to the 500-full-time equivalent threshold. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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