COMMUNITY GROUPS ASSAIL LOSS OF FUNDING FOR MISSION.Byline: Yvette Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer A group of San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. organizations expressed anger Friday at Mission College President William Norlund's failure to use $4.7 million in state funds for expansion. ``We're very angry, and we have every right to be because it's the Latino community being affected the most by the loss of this money,'' said Xavier Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , president of Pueblo y Salud, one of the organizations in the collaborative that was created more than a year ago to work with Norlund to resolve various campus issues. The group of community organizations is scheduled to hold a public forum with Norlund today. 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. Councilman and state Sen.-elect Richard Alarcon said Friday that he is dissatisfied with Norlund's performance. Alarcon called for a management audit by the Los Angeles Community College District's board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. to determine what went wrong with the expansion project. ``There are some very deep concerns about what brought us to lose this allocation, so I'm not going to say that I don't have concerns about the direction of the administration,'' Alarcon said. ``But it would be premature to say that I'm calling for his ouster ouster n. 1) the wrongful dispossession (putting out) of a rightful owner or tenant of real property, forcing the party pushed out of the premises to bring a lawsuit to regain possession. .'' News of the community's discontent with Norlund came as a surprise to his executive assistant, Barbara Perkins. ``There's enough blame to go around for everybody on projects like this. You and I know it doesn't take one entity to pull off a project like this,'' she said. About 70 percent of Mission College's student population is Latino, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Flores, who organized the forum to see how the college can obtain funding for future expansion and to analyze why the college failed to create an expansion proposal before the Dec. 30 deadline the state imposed on the funding. ``We do want to figure out who was responsible for the fiasco, the fumbling of the funds,'' Flores said. Other organizations in the collaborative include the Latin American Civic Association, the Northeast Valley Health Corp., Comision Femenil of the San Fernando Valley and the Chicano studies department at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . The public forum will be held at 10 a.m. today at San Fernando City Hall at 117 MacNeil St., San Fernando. |
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