COUNCIL LOOKS TO BORROW FUNDS SOUGHT TO BUILD RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, ROADS.Byline: Heather MacDonald Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA - The City Council on Tuesday endorsed a tentative plan to borrow money to build recreation facilities and roads in the next year. At the fourth meeting on the 2001-2002 budget, council members expressed frustration at the high cost of crucial roads, gymnasiums, sports fields and pools. ``We want all these amenities, especially roads and parks, but not the development that usually comes along with them,'' said Councilman Cameron Smyth. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how we'd catch up, unless we borrow money.'' City officials have identified more than $38 million worth of new and expanded programs they would like to see funded in next year's projected $95 million budget. City officials expect the city's revenues to be flat this year as the economy slows and construction levels off in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. . Though the city is financially healthy, the city's bills have grown by $3 million during the past year because of commitments to fund the Activity Center, to fight the proposed mine in Soledad Canyon along with increases in the cost of energy, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. services and maintenance of newly built parks and sports playfields. City Manager George Caravalho presented a plan to borrow $6.7 million from the state for additional money for the Aquatics Center, improvements to Golden Valley Road, Scherzinger Lane, Haskell Canyon Road and to buy open space. Caravalho's plan would use the city's $3.5 million of unallocated funds for road maintenance, a parking lot in downtown Newhall, additional sheriff's deputies for the junior high schools, the Aquatics Center, to preserve open space and to hire architectural design consultants. Councilman Frank Ferry said Santa Clarita's school overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. crisis makes it especially crucial for the city to build recreation facilities like the Aquatics Center. ``We're moving backwards,'' Ferry said. ``We've built four fields in the last year and lost three to portable classrooms.'' Commitments to the Aquatics Center and the planned Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. at 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. along with annual road maintenance and matching funds for grants from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority account for $11.7 million of the budget, Caravalho said. The City Council also endorsed plans to expand Valencia's auto row and to possibly relocate the William S. Hart PONY Baseball and Softball PONY Baseball and Softball is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping young people grow into healthier and happier adults, primarily through the organization of baseball and softball leagues. League from their fields along Valencia Boulevard. The council members also expressed support for plans to build a new City Hall on vacant land at McBean Parkway and Valencia Boulevard along with a new library and courts building on a new civic center plaza. Council members also said they were intrigued by a proposal that would add two anchor stores and two new parking structures to the Valencia Town Center Mall Town Center Mall may refer to:
High on the City Council's wish list for next year is $320,000 for two new school deputies who would patrol the city's four junior highs, freeing the current deputies to concentrate on Valencia, Saugus, Hart and Canyon high schools. |
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