COUNTY WILL KEEP LEASE ON SCHOOL; LEAVING CHURCH SITE WOULD BE COSTLY.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick 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 school officials said on Friday they intend to operate a school for teen-age probationers in a leased church building until another entity is found to lease the building from them. The Los Angeles County Office of Education has already signed a seven-year lease for property owned by the Faith Community Church, which is moving to new quarters, and officials say they can't afford to break the lease, even though neighbors and Palmdale school officials oppose the location. ``To break the lease would incur significant financial hardships for (the county) and create an unintended misuse of public education funds,'' Gerry Lopez, the agency's area administrator for court and community schools, said Friday. County officials said they will announce at a meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the church property, 39150 10th St. W., an aggressive relocation RELOCATION, Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation. 2. When a tenant holds over after the expiration of his lease, with the consent of his landlord, this will amount to a relocation. plan for the Palmdale Community Education Center. While they intend to operate the school temporarily in the church building, county officials have halted an architect's work on designing modifications intended to make the property function better as a school, a spokeswoman said. ``We're not making alterations in the site at all,'' spokeswoman Margo Minecki said. County officials said they hope the community meeting can generate ideas on the best and most expedient ex·pe·di·ent adj. 1. Appropriate to a purpose. 2. a. Serving to promote one's interest: was merciful only when mercy was expedient. b. ways to find a tenant acceptable to neighbors and allowed under city zoning laws. ``It could be another education program; it could be a church,'' Minecki said. Because the county doesn't intend to lose any money on the transaction, the new tenant must agree to pay the full cost of the county's lease: $5,450 a month. The lease was signed in February, after city officials convinced the county not to put the school downtown and after a plan to put it in a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into in the 2200 block of East Palmdale Boulevard fell through. Residents of adjoining Desert View Highlands and other neighborhoods gathered 475 signatures on a petition opposing the school after they found out last July about the county plans. The school would educate about 20 Palmdale teens furloughed from county probation probation, method by which the punishment of a convicted offender is conditionally suspended. The offender must remain in the community and under the supervision of a probation officer, who is usually a court-appointed official. camps after serving time for offenses like burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. , car theft, drug charges and gang-related crimes, officials said. Opponents say the location is too close to three elementary schools elementary school: see school. , an intermediate school and the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. , and they fear the county school's students would act as a magnet to draw other teen-agers who have had run-ins with the law. County officials said all the students are residents of Palmdale who have been released from probation camp to home. The majority will return to regular schools after showing they can function in the county school, officials said. 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 teens released from county camps now attend a school at Division Street and Avenue K-8, an industrial area in Lancaster. |
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