March 8th 2005

Vote for Gerald Wayne Perttula on March 8th, 2005, date of the BIG LA City Municipal Election.

The candidates for Seat # 6 for the LACommunity College Board are:

Nancy Pearlman (incumbent)

Maria Grunwald-Agazaryan (education activist)

Gerald Wayne Perttula (Curriculum Specialist)


Why Vote for Gerald Perttula? The present LACC Board needs to be "reigned-in" from their unaccountable spending spree that has gutted a Bond measure AA (passed by voters in 2003), spending money meant for existing campuses, into an unnecessary facility at 770 Wilshire Blvd, draining needed funds away from student instruction.

The waste does not end there: the LACC Board sold the 4050 Wilshire Building for a $6 million loss, to help pay for 770 Wilshire.

The waste continues: The LACCD Board pursued the 35-year lease on a downtown Golf Course...and for what purpose?

And why does the LACC Board spend its time passing socially-activist resolutions? (e.g., asserting their stance AGAINST the recall of Gray Davis?)

Gerald Perttula will look for the "smart cuts" necessary to meet Governor Schwarzeneggar's latest Budget Reforms.

Gerald Perttula agrees with Governor Schwarzeneggar that teachers should be compensated on the basis of measurable student performance. Educational Excellence is possible in California!

Let's spend Bond AA money on the students of the LA Community Colleges, as stipulated.

Quality Education (with more vocational classes) can be delivered at the Community Colleges!

It can be done!