EXPERT TO AID BOND DRIVE.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
LANCASTER - In a step toward preparing for a $139 million November bond measure, supporters of Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. will hire a consultant who worked on two successful school bond campaigns in the high desert. Friends of Antelope Valley College, a committee formed to push for the bond, is hiring political consultant Chris Jones to help guide the campaign. Jones worked on successful recent bond campaigns for Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. and Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale . ``Chris Jones has been involved locally with bond campaigns,'' said AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C spokesman Steve Standerfer. ``He knows the local community. We thought that was very key.'' Jones will be paid $30,000 for his work. The will come from the campaign, not from the college, Standerfer said. After initially looking at the March primary, college officials opted to hold off until the November election to put the $139 million bond measure before voters. Supporters of the bond said more time was needed to properly prepare their case to earn public support. AVC officials say the bond funding is needed to update the aging Lancaster campus and to start the proposed Palmdale campus. College officials are seeking bond funding to supplement state revenue that officials hope to get toward 35 projects, totaling $368.5 million, to accommodate rapidly increasing enrollment. Under the state's scoring system Noun 1. scoring system - a system of classifying according to quality or merit or amount rating system classification system - a system for classifying things for determining priority for funding, local matching funding can count for as much as 25 percent of the point total. ``If we don't have matching funds Noun 1. matching funds - funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money , we're automatically going to be at the bottom of to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. - J. F. Cooper. See also: Bottom the list,'' said Tom Brundage, AVC's vice president of business services. College district enrollment is expected to double to more than 26,000 students by 2020. College officials said Lancaster facilities are aging, and the campus lacks lab, library and office space. The college also needs about 500 parking spaces. The bond issue would help establish a Palmdale campus at an initial cost of about $38 million, including $16.2 million in locally raised revenue. The Palmdale campus would be part of the 540-acre College Park housing development proposed south of Barrel Springs Road between 37th and 47th streets east. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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