COUNTY INVITES PUBLIC COMMENTS ON PARK PLAN.Byline: Romy Jacobson Daily News Staff Writer 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. County officials are proposing to build a $1.5 million gymnasium gymnasium In Germany, a state-maintained secondary school that prepares pupils for higher academic education. This type of nine-year school originated in Strasbourg in 1537. suitable for basketball and volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. at Jackie Robinson Noun 1. Jackie Robinson - United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972) Jack Roosevelt Robinson, Robinson County Park. Using money from Proposition A, a parcel tax approved by county voters in 1996, parks officials hope to complete the gymnasium by the end of 1998. Residents of Littlerock will have an opportunity to voice their opinions about the proposal today at a 7 p.m. meeting at the park, 8773 E. Ave. R. ``My hopes are that the multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective gymnasium will meet a need that they definitely want, that they'll say yes, and we'll go forward,'' said park project coordinator James McCarthy
Bishop James F. McCarthy (born July 9, 1942) was an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of New York, who resigned from his parish assignment . At the meeting, people can suggest features for the gymnasium. They also can suggest other projects they believe the community needs more than a gymnasium. ``We really need the public input,'' added McCarthy. ``We don't want to just build something to spend the money. We want to build something that's going to serve the needs of the public,'' said McCarthy. The first Proposition A was passed in 1992 to improve and repair county parks and create jobs for high-risk juveniles through a new property tax. Voters passed the second phase of the proposition, also known as the Los Angeles County Park, Beach and Recreation Act of 1996, by almost a two-thirds majority countywide. That measure required property owners to pay $6 a year per parcel over 20 years. For more information regarding the meeting, call Jackie Robinson County Park at (805) 944-2880. |
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