EDITORIAL : SWEATING THE DETAILS.TWO years into repairing Los Angeles' schools and work is going pretty much on schedule. It's not astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, news. Good news would have been that the district was ahead of schedule in installing air conditioners Conditioners used on leather take many shapes and forms. They are used mostly to keep leather from drying out and deteriorating. A very old and widely used conditioner is dubbin. so that children and teachers wouldn't have to suffer through another sweltering swel·ter·ing adj. 1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry. 2. Suffering from oppressive heat. swel year of classes. But the fact that work is back on schedule after a disastrous start is all due to the hard work and efforts of the citizens oversight committee - not the vast bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu swamp that passes for the district's leadership. About 22 percent of all the work expected to receive funding from the $2.4 billion bond measure is now done, compared with 9 percent at the end of the first year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the oversight committee's second annual report. About 15 percent of the bond money has been spent. The public should not forget that the school board betrayed its promise for citizen oversight a week after Proposition BB won passage and it took a court order for the district to abide by To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. See also: Abide the recommendations of the oversight committee. And the district for months fought all attempts to be responsive to taxpayers and the public. But perhaps now, with investigators breathing down their necks over the Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. fiasco, the district has finally learned its lesson. Cooperation can produce results. So, too, can accountability. Proposition BB officials have taken a tougher stance with some of the project management firms after complaints about their performance during the first year. Although none of the 10 management companies has been fired, four were given less work than others - and therefore less money - to force them to improve. The district also revamped its own in-house system following a first year with major problems. Projects that originally were handled by the district's facilities staff are now performed mostly by outside contractors outside contractor n → contratista m/f independiente . The district has designated a full-time coordinator for Proposition BB, allowing for better tracking of projects. Surprise, surprise, accountability is working. We congratulate the citizens oversight committee and Chairman Steven Soboroff for staying on the task of making sure buildings are repaired and updated in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Creating a better learning environment for the children is worth the hard work. |
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