Northeast Community Urged To Attend And Demand That the Bond Oversight Committee Ask For Intervention By California Attorney General Jerry Brown, State Controller John Chiang, and Economic Stimulus Inspector General Laura Chick
Citizen’s Bond Oversight Committee of LACCD has called a Special Meeting at the Van de Kamps Campus to continue its investigation of potential wrongdoing by LACCD officials in the alleged misuse of taxpayer bond funds to convert the Northeast Satellite Campus of LA City College into a leased tenant facility. A Satellite Community College Campus for Northeast’s students, promised to taxpayers of the Northeast for a decade, will be taken over by the Mayor’s unemployment programs, unless YOUR VOICE is lifted to demand a return of the campus.
Since April 2009, LACCD has falsely claimed that it cannot open and run the Northeast Satellite Campus because of the State budget crisis. This claim directly contradicts two LACCD market demand studies of the Northeast Campus establishing the fact that the demand for profit-making, fee-based courses would fully cover operational costs and subsidize a modest number of traditional community college classes. This claim of the State Budget crisis affecting the opening of the Northeast Campus is a pretense or excuse to hand the buildings over to the Mayor’s unemployment programs and a favorite charter high school, the Alliance for College Ready Public Schools.
The LACCD has done no outreach and no public disclosure of this Public Meeting of the Citizen’s Bond Oversight Committee. The job of this Committee is to carefully alert the public if it detects improper misuse of bond funds. The LACCD’s bond counsel released a report in March 2010 pointing out that over the last nine years, the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee has NEVER issued the annual report to the public required by state law.
The Committee should be urged to take some meaningful action to demand that the LACCD provide the Committee with its own independent financial analyst and independent legal counsel. The Committee should also be asked to issue press releases and/or letters calling for outside investigations of the wrongdoing by the California Attorney General, the State Controller’s Audit Office, and the Inspector General for Economic Stimulus Funds.
WHAT: LACCD Citizen’s Bond Oversight Committee Meeting
DATE: Thursday, July 8, 2010
TIME: Noon
PLACE: Van de Kamps Building, Second Floor Conference Room
For more information, please go to http://www.vandekamps.org/ or call Miki Jackson at 323-855-0764.
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