POLLS OPEN TILL 8 FOR COLLEGE ISSUE, RUNOFF RACES.Byline: Daily News Polling locations will be open until 8 p.m. today as voters pass judgment on nearly $1 billion in new borrowing by 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. and four runoff elections. The races include two runoffs for the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. and one runoff apiece for the 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 and the Community College District's board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. . Proposition AA, if approved by 55 percent of voters, would authorize the college district to borrow $980 million to be repaid by higher property taxes. The money would finance renovation and construction of facilities at the nine campuses in the district. In the Northwest San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , Greig Smith and Julie Korenstein are running for the council in District 12. Longtime incumbent Hal Bernson will leave the council in July due to the city's term limits ordinance. In the Mid-City area, Martin Ludlow and Deron Williams are battling for the 10th District seat on the council, which Nate Holden is leaving due to term limits. In the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , incumbent David Tokofsky is fighting a challenge from Nellie Rios-Parra, who has backing from former mayor Richard Riordan's Coalition for Kids. The college district runoff pits incumbent Mona Field against challenger Joyce Burrell Garcia. Voters can find the address of their polling places by looking on the back cover of the sample ballot that was sent in the mail. They also can check the Web site at www.lacity.org/clk/election or call the Election Division of the City Clerk's Office toll-free at (888) 873-1000. |
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