Los Angeles Community College District Awards More Than
$23 Million in Local Construction Contracts to Build
New Child Development Center and Gymnasium

Contracts will bring two new buildings to Los Angeles Mission and Valley Colleges, funded in part by the voter-approved $2.2 billion Proposition A/AA Bond program

Feb. 26, 2007 (LOS ANGELES) The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) announced today that its Board of Trustees awarded local businesses $23,500,000 in construction contracts recently for a child development center at Los Angeles Mission College and a new gym at Valley College. Each contract is the result of formal competitive bidding and will receive funding from the Proposition A/AA Bond program, the $2.2 billion bond measures overwhelmingly approved by Los Angeles voters in 2001 and 2003.

“These local businesses are playing a vital role in helping build first-class educational facilities for our students,” said Warren Furutani, member of the LACCD Board of Trustees.  "Plus, the new child development center and gym will benefit kids and students alike.  The modernization efforts underway on the campuses of the L.A. Community Colleges will directly impact the next generation of students, providing them with the educational resources they deserve."

LACCD’s Board of Trustees authorized the following construction contracts on February 7, 2007:

Los Angeles Mission College:  EMMA Corporation, a local business in Los Angeles, will receive $9,100,000 to construct a new Child Development Center.  The project will provide a two-story, 27,000 sq. ft. facility that will also house classrooms and office space.

Amador Whittle Architects, Inc. of Moorpark, Calif. designed the new facility; Gateway Science & Engineering will oversee construction on the building as college project manager at Mission College.  This project has also received $4,483,000 in funding from the State Capital Outlay Program. 

Los Angeles Valley College:  The Trustees authorized a contract with Woodcliff Corporation, a local business based in Los Angeles, to provide construction services for the Gym Complex renovation project for $14,400,000.  Woodcliff will renovate two existing buildings on campus, the North and South Gymnasiums, and a 5,000 sq. ft. new addition to the North Gymnasium for the Disabled Student Program Services exercise room.

Construction on the project will also include the addition of a new pool complex, which will have one eight-lane, 50-meter competition pool; one six-lane, 25-yard training pool; one three-foot-deep warm-up pool; and one pool equipment building.  Accessibility improvements will also be made to complexes, adding ramps and railings.

The Los Angeles Community College District, one of the largest community college districts in the country, has embarked on a $2.2 billion construction and modernization program at its nine colleges.  The LACCD has contracted 86 percent of the construction program's work to date to local, small, emerging or disabled-veteran enterprise businesses.  Companies interested in participating in this $2.2 billion renovation and modernization program are encouraged to visit www.PropositionA.org and click on “Doing Business with Us.”

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