Los Angeles Community College District Awards $8 Million in Construction Contracts for Upgrades at Three Colleges

Contracts will bring needed construction services to Los Angeles Harbor, Mission and Southwest Colleges as part of the $2.2 billion Proposition A/AA Bond program

Oct. 19, 2006 (LOS ANGELES) The Los Angeles Community College District announced today that its Board of Trustees awarded $8,787,049 in construction contracts during September 2006 to businesses for construction and upgrade projects at three of its nine colleges. Each contract is the result of formal competitive bidding and will be funded by the Proposition A/AA Bond program, the $2.2 billion bond measures overwhelmingly approved by Los Angeles voters in 2001 and 2003.

The Colleges’ Board of Trustees authorized the following construction contracts in September 2006:

Los Angeles Harbor College: The Trustees authorized a contract with RJ Daum Construction Co., a disabled-veteran business based in Garden Grove, Calif. to provide services for the Central Plant project in the amount of $8,643,049. This project will construct a new Central Plant for the campus to supply backup power and chilled water for the college. The Central Plant will consist of four cooling towers, three centrifugal chillers, one broad chiller and four micro turbines. This facility will be a single story building covering about 6,000 square feet.

Los Angeles Mission College: The Trustees authorized an agreement with Terrones Contracting, Inc., a business based in Rosemead, Calif. to perform landscape and erosion control services for the Temporary Parking Lot project in the amount of $115,000. This project will consist of cement work; installation of signs; painting parking stripes; removing existing weeds, and preparing the soil and planting new landscaping.

Los Angeles Southwest College: The Trustees authorized a contract with Absolute Abatement, a business based in Fullerton, Calif. for $29,000 to provide HAZMAT services related
to the demolition of bungalows for the Interim Parking Phase 1.2 project. This project will remove materials in preparation for the demolition of the campus bookstore.

The Los Angeles Community College District is one of the largest community college districts in the country and has embarked on a $2.2 billion construction and modernization program at its nine colleges. The LACCD has contracted 85 percent of the construction program's work to local and small businesses. Companies interested in participating in this $2.2 billion renovation and modernization program are encouraged to contact Donetta Pickett at DPickettAssoc@aol.com, and to visit www.PropositionA.org and click on “Doing Business with Us.”