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VOL. 70, NO. 3 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JULY 27, 1989
'89 -'90
Community
College Budget
Up 4.6 Percent
Gjames Dyce
Special Correspondent
It now appears that PCC will
receive its portion of the excess tax
money left over in the 1989 budget
that ended on June 30. Previously,
all money in excess of the Gann
spending limit left over at the end
of the fiscal year was returned to
the taxpayers under the Gann
amendment. This was the case in
1987, when Gov. George Deukme-
jian refused to sign the state
legislature’s spending plan for that
years excess tax money on the
grounds that is violated the Gann
amendment. The court subse¬
quently ruled in favor of Deukme-
AS to Collect
Food and Money
For PCC's Needy
Michael D. Nalick
Staff Writer
Students, staff and faculty are
gearing up for the 1989 LAR
(Leadership and Responsibility)
Drive which will provide food and
other materials to PCC’s needy
students.
Sponsored by the AS Board, the
drive will begin Monday, Sept. 18,
and is tentatively scheduled to
continue until Friday, Nov. 10.
However, if food and supplies are
still coming in after that date, they
will not be turned away.
Lana G. Fields, AS vice presi¬
dent of student services, said a
campus-wide effort to help PCC
students who struggle financially
will be the main goal of the drive.
Those chosen to receive the do¬
nated goods will include students
on welfare, out-of-state students
who have had trouble adjusting to
California’s high cost of living and
reentry students — single parents
and others who have returned to
further their education —
especially those with children to
support.
“I know that there are a lot of
pressures accompanying student
life,” said Fields, “and my intent
is to ease part of that burden.”
Although organizers hope peo¬
ple will donate non-perishable
foods primarily, other articles such
as toiletries, school supplies,
clothing and money will be
welcomed, too. “We’ll accept
anything,” assured Fields.
People wishing to contribute
can place their donations in any
one of the marked bins which will
be located around campus, bring
them to the student activities office
or any campus club meeting.
Questions regarding the LAR
Drive should be directed to the stu¬
dent activities office, the Alpha
Gamma Sigma(AGS) Honor
Society or any AS Board member.
jian s interpretation.
This year, however, the gover¬
nor appears to have changed his
mind on dispersing the windfall
tax money throughout government
spending programs. The leading
motivational factor for the gover¬
nor’s change of mind is believed to
be Prop. 98 which would have
allowed $2.2 billion of state excess
money to go to education, kin¬
dergarten through grade 14. The
other $300 million would have
been returned to the taxpayers.
Budget Negotiations
Eleventh hour negotiations for
dispersing the $2.5 billion
highlighted direct consultations
between state school chief Bill
Honig and state legislators over
Honig’s refusal to acquiesce to
Republicans' demands that he per¬
ceived would weaken Prop. 98.
By virtue of the fact that Honig
had already agreed to hold school
appropriation increases down to 41
percent of the states’ general fund,
he felt the $2.2 billion excess tax
money should go to education. The
plan to hold education funding in¬
creases down by allowing its fund¬
ing to increase only one percent
from 40 percent to 41 percent was
proposed by Sen. John Garamendi,
D-Walnut Grove. But Honig now
argued that Senate Republican
leader Ken Maddy’s (Fresno) plan
would have cut education to 39
percent.
Community College Share
After the final legislation had
been signed, Honig said, “For six
months the legislature has been
trying to gut education’s share of
the windfall tax dollars. They did
not succeed.” Sen. Gary Hart
(Santa Barbara), who handled the
drawing up of the final legislation,
released the following figures.
Education,
К
through 14 would
receive $1.4 billion dollars of the
windfall tax excess moneys.
Communities colleges would
receive $45 million. In addition,
They would also receive an in¬
crease of 4.6 percent in their yearly
budget for the fiscal year 1989-90.
This is an increase of about8.4
tenths of one percent above what
Honig had agreed to as a one per¬
cent annual increase to 41 percent
in the Garamendi plan.
A Day in the Sun . . .
Jennifer Landis/ The Courier
By the Mirror Pools, Yolanda Bohanee gets her feet wet while studying Marine Biology with
Patrick Lewis.
Gangs Violate the Poo! Rules
Gang Activity
-related violence broke
out at PCC's pool July 7. Just
after 3:30 in the afternoon, the
lifeguard on duty called
Campus Police to report that
“two Hispanic juveniles were
fighting over gang affiliation,”
according to the police log.
Apparently, a 16-year-old
boy started the fight, and the
other, 18, fought back. Both
were ejected from the pool.
The boy who started the fight
was “advised not to return to
the pool for the rest of the sum¬
mer,” while the other was told
to stay away for three weeks.
Female Harrassment
Among other police items, a
female student arrived at the
Campus Police department on
the night of July 1 1 reporting
that “a man had tried to touch
her without her consent.”
Officers Nicholas O.
Hoekstra, Steven L. Lester,
Ronald W. West and Theresa B.
Carrillo responded and found
the suspect “with a radio and no
books behaving very strangely
toward females.”
The suspect, 38-year-old
mentally handicapped non-stu¬
dent, was harassing females in
the Quad.
After telling officers that he
was supposed to meet his
mother at Carl's Jr. and had just
stopped at PCC for a while, he
was released and advised not to
return to campus.
Illegal Parking
Margaret J. Strong, Campus
Police Senior Dispatcher, said
that criminal activity at PCC
slows down considerably dur¬
ing the summer months. “Less
kids, less crime,” she said. One
officer with time on his hands
last week requested warrant/
want checks on two different
vehicles in less than 14
minutes, according to the log.
The first one did not have cur¬
rent registration tags, but turned
out to be registered and, conse¬
quently, was not cited. The
other car could not be checked
for outstanding warrants
because the Pasadena Police
Department’s computer system
was not working; it was,
however, cited for illegal park¬
ing.
— Michael D. Nalick
Asbestos Clean-up Starts
College Adheres to EPA Standards
Gigi Hanna
Editor-in-Chief
The Board of Trustees has
awarded Marcor of California
the contract for the continuing
asbestos abatement from
campus buildings. On May 4,
1989, the Board authorized the
District to “advertise and
solicit” offers for the projects.
Marcor's $224,849 bid was the
lowest of the four received.
According to the Environ¬
mental Protection Agency,
more than 20 percent of U.S.
commercial and public proper¬
ties are believed to contain
asbestos. Once regarded as a
magic mineral because of its in¬
sulating abilities, asbestos was
severely restricted by the EPA
in 1973 after high doses of it
were to found scar human
lungs, causing cancer and other
diseases. Removal of the
mineral from community col¬
lege campuses began three
years ago, and PCC has been
involved in ongoing removal
projects since then.
Current projects involving
asbestos removal include the
Facilities Monitoring and Con¬
trol System (FMCS) to be in¬
stalled in the R building. Before
any installing or wiring can be
done on the temperature control
system, the asbestos present in
crawlspaces must be cleared to
avoid any danger to the
workers. Marcor began work
yesterday to replace the
asbestos ceiling tiles in the top
floor classes of the V building
with safe tiles. The classrooms
being treated will be tented dur¬
ing the process. According to
Ernest Church, manager of
maintenance and grounds ser¬
vices, there is no danger of
asbestos contamination to stu¬
dents during removal work
because “the air is cleaned,
vaccumned and monitored
before and after each job. If the
air doesn’t meet city and state
standards, we don’t allow peo¬
ple in the building.” The U
building will also be undergo¬
ing asbestos-removal work.
According to Dr. James
Kossler, assistant superinten¬
dent of administrative services,
the board will soon be taking
bids for a general asbestos
removal contract. Currently,
each asbestos removal project
must be bid separatly, as the
need arises. The process as it is
now, is lengthy and retards the
progress of each project. The
board hopes to end this with a
contractor that will handle all of
the asbestos removal on
campus.