COUNCIL OKS OFFICE SPACE USE.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - A newly formed nonprofit institute will use a portion of the former Palmdale courthouse as a base for its efforts to promote science and technology education among young people. The Palmdale City Council voted 4-0 Wednesday, with Mayor Jim Ledford absent, to lease 5,800 square feet of the former courthouse to AERO Institute for $1 a year. The institute plans to use the space for conducting classes and workshops and for office space. ``Not only does it promote education, but this supports our No. 1 industry - aerospace,'' said Mayor Pro Tem [Latin, For the time being.] An abbreviation used for pro tempore, Latin for "temporary or provisional." A person who acts as a temporary substitute serves pro tem. Jim Root. The institute will begin moving into the complex March 1, and will probably have 10 to 15 people staffing the building, said Susan Miller Susan Miller is the name of:
NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Dryden Flight Research Center The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. , one of the strategic partners involved in the institute. `` 'Elated,' I believe, is the word,'' Miller said of the lease agreement. ``The Palmdale City Council was so enthusiastic. We're looking forward to living up to their expectations.'' AERO - short for ``Aerospace Education Research Operations'' - evolved out of concerns over the lack of engineering and technical training opportunities in the 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 . The institute, formed about 18 months ago, is a strategic partnership comprised of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. ; the California Space Grant Foundation, a California nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. ; the California Space Grant Consortium, part of the NASA-sponsored National Space Grant Foundation with more than 800 affiliate colleges and universities; NASA Ames Research Center NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which covers 43 acres at the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California. This research center is most commonly called NASA Ames. ; and the California Space Institute of the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). . The institute hopes to begin offering programs out of the complex this spring. One expected immediate benefit of the new building is that NASA plans to bring its educator resource center from Dryden to the complex, making it more accessible for teachers. The center contains materials for use by teachers in their science and math curricula, such as publications, reference books, slides, audio and video cassettes, computer programs, CD- ROMs, lesson plans and activities, and posters. The lease agreement is for one year, with three one-year options. The agreement is similar to one the city had with Los Angeles County when it operated the complex for civil court proceedings. While the lease is only for a dollar a year, the institute will be responsible for the operations and upkeep of the complex, including utilities. The institute is working on programs aimed at inspiring students from kindergarten through high school to pursue science, math and technical careers, as well as providing technical, undergraduate and graduate training. Located at the southwest corner of 9th Street East and Avenue Q-10, the Palmdale courthouse opened in February 2001, bringing civil cases back to the Antelope Valley for the first time in 11 years. For lack of room in the old Lancaster courthouse at Avenue J-2 and 10th Street West, civil cases had been transferred out of the Antelope Valley, and half the valley's criminal cases are heard in courts in Van Nuys or elsewhere. Los Angeles County moved its civil court operations to the new Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San Antelope Valley Courthouse late last year, leaving the Palmdale complex vacant. The rest of the courthouse complex will be used to help consolidate city offices that are now located away from the Civic Center, including the city's personnel office. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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