MISSION COLLEGE BREAKS GROUND ON NEW CHILD CENTER.Byline: SUSAN ABRAM Staff Writer SYLMAR -- Four youngsters in hard hats used golden shovels to pierce Pierce may refer to: Places
When completed in late 2008, the $9.1 million project is expected to care for 96 children at a time, free of charge for parents who enroll full time. "This is not only about increasing enrollment, but more importantly expanding the quality of education for the community," said Ernest Moreno, Mission's interim president. The two-story, environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] building will sit off Hubbard Street Hubbard Street is a road in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Where Hubbard Street passes over the Kennedy Expressway, the Expressway enters a tunnel made up of surface streets known as colloquially as "Hubbard's Cave. and will include six classrooms for children, ranging from infants to preschoolers; three observation rooms for parents, students and faculty; and four distinct outdoor play areas -- all on the first floor. The second floor will include three college classrooms for those taking child-development courses. The state funded part of the project, but most of the money comes from the $2.2 billion in proposition A/AA bond funds passed by voters in 2001 and 2003. Mission, the youngest of the nine campuses in the Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. , is still pursuing two more projects with its $176 million share of bond money. The campus is under a tight deadline to begin construction in April on its health and physical-fitness center because its share of bond funds will expire then. "We're going to make that deadline," said Larry Eisenberg, the college district's executive director of facilities, planning and development. Last month, college officials approved a master plan and a final environmental review for the project at the southeastern corner of Eldridge Avenue and Harding Street, land once owned by a Syrian church. Some residents have complained that traffic will worsen wors·en tr. & intr.v. wors·ened, wors·en·ing, wors·ens To make or become worse. worsen Verb to make or become worse worsening adjn , but college officials say they have found ways to help reduce any congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. . District officials also want to obtain another parcel, owned by developer Comstock Homes, through eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in . That process is still ongoing, Eisenberg said. Enrollment at the college, which has remained constant at just above 7,000 students, is expected to increase to 15,000 if all the construction occurs. susan.abram(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3664 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Children wearing hard hats took shovels to break ground for the new Child Development Center at Mission College in Sylmar on Monday. The center will provide free care for children whose parents who are full-time students Full-Time Student A status that is important for determining dependency exemptions. An individual enrolled in a post-secondary institution may be eligible for certain tax breaks. Notes: The full-time status is based on what the individual's school considers full time. . (2) Monica Moreno, director of the Child Development Center, shows a rendering of the new center. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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