DISTRICT AUDIT AID OFFER RAISES OLD GRIEVANCES.Byline: Rick Orlov Staff Writer A Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board member revived a number of past grievances about dealings with the city as he released a letter Wednesday offering to help City Controller Laura Chick audit the district. 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. Unified board member David Tokofsky, who heads the board's audits committee, released a Jan. 5 letter he sent to Chick outlining five areas where he believes the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) and the city have had problems. ``I am available to meet with you to focus on your efforts toward a scope of work that you feel will help bring, as you said, transparency and accountability to LAUSD,'' Tokofsky wrote. He then recommended she review several instances in which he believes the city shortchanged the district: a lawsuit the district filed against the Department of Water and Power, alleging it was overcharged; the effectiveness of the L.A. Bridges program; the amount the district needs to spend for police; city sales taxes paid by LAUSD; and joint-use agreements. Chick rejected the Tokofsky letter as irrelevant to her efforts to conduct a management audit of the district. ``I have already talked with him about these issues and suggested he talk to his own attorneys or the school district's Inspector General's Office on these issues,'' she said. ``I think he should know better than to ask me to help him in a school district lawsuit against the city and, quite frankly, his other ideas are not very relevant to my concerns on how the district is operating.'' The claim involving the DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection has been a hot-button issue Noun 1. hot-button issue - an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions gut issue issue - an important question that is in dispute and must be settled; "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss among LAUSD officials, but city officials have disputed the claim and said it has already won cases involving similar accusations that had been made by the state during the energy crisis of five years ago. Also, on joint-use agreements, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. and Superintendent Roy Romer Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. announced last week they were close to an agreement on how costs should be shared. In joint-use projects, schools are located near parks and libraries. Staff Writer Naush Boghossian contributed to this report. Rick Orlov, (213) 978-0390 rick.orlov(at)dailynews.com |
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