LACCD update on Master Plan and the expenditure of Proposition AA money: The Daily News article, February 10, 2005 "College Efforts 'Satisfactory'" explains that the auditing firm KMPG rated 6 of 13 categories as "needs to improve". These areas to-be-improved were described in the article as covering the broad areas of "internal communication and accounting".

These findings of KMPG seem to acknowledge the Board's tendency to plan and act in an autocratic and cloistered fashion. True, the Citizen's oversight commission is convened, but, regrettably they meet only 4 times a year which, I contend, is not enough to provide "oversight". A committee that meets 4 times a year is a "rubber stamp". The choices and the plans of the board must be made in a manner that better involve the opinions and ideas of the taxpayers.


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Gerald Wayne Perttula is the candidate for seat #6
LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES

East L.A. College 213-265-8650 http://www.elac.cc.ca.us
Los Angeles City College Los Angeles 213-953-4340 www.lacc.cc.ca.us
Los Angeles Harbor College Wilmington 310-522-8200 http://www.lahc.cc.ca.us
Los Angeles Mission College Sylmar 818-364-7600 http://www.lamission.cc.ca.us
Los Angeles Pierce College Woodland Hills 818-347-0551 http://www.lapc.cc.ca.us
Los Angeles Southwest College Los Angeles 213-241-5225 http://www.lasc.cc.ca.us
L.A. Trade-Tech College Los Angeles 213-744-9058 http://www.lattc.cc.ca.us
Los Angeles Valley College Van Nuys 818-947-1200 http://www.lavc.cc.ca.us
West Los Angeles College Culver City 310-287-4200 http://www.wlac.edu

To pull in thousands of more students, I propose that each California Community College become a portal to American citizenship. The colleges would offer a certificated program to "naturalize" immigrants (legal and illegal). This would be a contractual 2-year program partnering with the Immigration and Naturaliztion Service (INS) . The classes would be typical of the naturalization process: the Justice system, American History, English language, and the Constitution. Undocumented applicants who breached this "Naturalization Contract", and left the program without appropriate explanation, would be subject to arrest and deportation. This plan addresses many social issues, and would be a natural complement to the "Dream Act" (AB 504). Foreign nationals who love the freedom of AMERICA must be encouraged to become American citizens, and streamlining the process will make America safer.