Host Agency:LACCD & PROPOSITION A/AA BOND PROGRAM

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the largest community college districts in the country, educating more than 110,000 students at its nine colleges each year. Over the past seventy-seven years LACCD served as educator to more than three million students. Affordable, accessible and practical, the LACCD offers opportunity to all. The District’s doors are wide open for a diverse student population eager for skills, knowledge and upward mobility. LACCD educates almost three times as many Latino students and nearly four times as many African-American students as all of the University of California campuses combined. Eighty percent of LACCD students are from underserved populations. Community colleges serve adults of all ages, meeting the needs of a society where "lifelong learning" is the rule and multiple careers and continual retraining are the norm. More than half of all LACCD students are older than 25 years of age, and more than a quarter are 35 or older. More than any other California system of higher education, community colleges offer a first - and a second - chance for anyone who wants to succeed.



LACCD is currently undertaking a $2.2 billion construction program, thanks to the passage of Propositions A and AA by Los Angeles voters in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Since the inception of the Bond Program through March 2006, LACCD has completed 95 projects totaling $363 million. There are an additional 145 projects included in the Bond program which still need to be completed totaling $1.99 billion. As part of the Bond program, the District is undertaking new construction and refurbishing projects throughout its nine campuses including new libraries, educational buildings, athletic fields, infrastructure improvements, maintenance facilities, parking structures, etc.

The Proposition A/AA Bond Program is making a positive impact on local and small businesses. As part of its commitment to promoting community economic development, LACCD is seeking the maximum possible participation by Local, Small, Emerging and Disabled-Veteran owned businesses with expertise in a variety of areas on construction and renovation projects funded by the Proposition A/AA Bond Program.

In addition, the Bond program is the largest public sector sustainable building program in the United States. Through these construction projects, LACCD has set the goal to self produce 25 percent of its energy needs with 10 percent utilizing photovoltaic cells. The construction and modernization projects are being undertaken at each of the nine community colleges.