Wednesday, February 1, 2006 THE LOMPOC RECORD A3 Hanco*ck Central CoastCalifornia trustees gear up for bond campaign I 1 7 By Michelle Hatfield STAFF WRITER Hanco*ck College trustees unanimously gave the go-ahead Tuesday night to placing a $180 million school bond on the June 6 ballot. The decision came at a special board meeting after 45 minutes of discussion from community members and trustees. All 12 people who spoke during public comment supported the bond. v. Speakers represented college staff, students, community agencies and activist organizations.
Voicing the Interests of young and old, they recalled their experiences with Hanco*ck or those of family members. Trustees and school administrators have been considering a bond for almost four years to repair aging buildings and construct new facilities. It will cost Hanco*ck $105,000 to put the bond on the ballot in three counties. While most of Hanco*ck's district sits in Santa Barbara County, a handful of voters fall within San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties. The district's next step is 120 days of fund-raising and campaigning.
Similar bond elections can cost $200,000 to $300,000, said Jose Ortiz, Hanco*ck College president. That money can not come from school funds, but can from private donations. More than 15,000 students of all ages take classes at Hanco*ck's four locations Santa Maria, Lompoc, Vandenberg Ed SauzaStaff Hanco*ck College spokesperson Rebecca Allarcio holds a rusted water pipe that was removed from the PCPA theater. A warning sign tells lavatory users not to drink the water. Air Force Base and Solvang.
Rose and Mort Russell spoke at the meeting, representing the community's senior citizens who take many of Hanco*ck's non-credit community programs. The couple said seniors appreciate and support the college's "ever-developing community programs, a staple of life-long learning," Rose Russell said. Ortiz presented a draft list of projects staff would like to complish with the bond money. The schedule includes a one-stop student services center, public safety complex, child-care center, fine arts complex, physical education addition, industrial technology modernization, technology center all at the Santa Maria campus and a Lompoc Valley Center science building. The goal is to update facilities that are behind the times and falling apart, especially for highly skilled career paths such as health care, police and fire.
During public comment, Steve O'Neill relayed his experience with Hanco*ck's wear and tear over his 36 years as a teacher, He said he's stood on a floor without linoleum and had ceilings and raindrops falling on his head. "Never have I ever seen an issue that is so one-sided. I've not met one staff member against this bond," said O'Neill, who was speaking on behalf of the school's Academic Senate. "You have the unanimous support from the faculty." Officials are hoping for $19 fense during a 1987 trial in Santa Maria. After a November 2004 evidentiary hearing, Garcia found that Biely ignored a possible alibi and potential inconsistencies in Alcox's confession to police.
Garcia did not rule on Alcox's guilt or innocence, instead focusing on the issue of inadequate legal representation. Alcox's alibi claim that he was with friends on Vandenberg Air Force Base at the time of the murder was not admissible because it was included in documents filed after the evidentiary hearing, prosecutor Franklin argued in a motion filed late Monday. "If the tardy claim that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to introduce evidence of the 'partying at Vandenberg' alibi is There is Port hueneme Beach reunion for airliner crash Clutching white roses, helium balloons and each other, about 40 friends and family members prayed Tuesday for the 88 people killed when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 spiraled into the sea six years ago. "It's where we want to be. We're glad to be here and visit," said Steve Campbell, the former Port Hueneme chief of police who helps the families on their annual treks to the beach eight miles away from the crash site.
They gather around a sundial-with-leaping-dolphins monument that cost $350,000, money raised through donations from the community, family members and Alaska Airlines. Family members and friends held white helium balloons and used a marker to scrawl the names of victims. A bell rang as each of the 88 names was read and a single white rose was placed on individual victim plaques that encircle the air crash monument. Many people exchanged hugs as they reminisced about their lost loved ones, rekindling friendships forged with other survivors after the tragedy. At 4:21 p.m., the time of the Jan.
31, 2000, crash the balloons were released after a moment of silent prayer. They then walked to the water's edge and left a rose in the surf. The Alaska Airlines MD-80 went down near Anacapa Island, one of the chain of Channel Islands northwest of Los Angeles, while en route from Puerto Val-larta, Mexico, to San Francisco and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. SACRAMENTO Former U.S. Treasurer tapped for position Former U.S.
Treasurer Rosario Marin was appointed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to head the State and Consumer Services Agency. Marin was appointed treasurer by President Bush in 2001 and served until May 2003, when she resigned to return to California. She lost a Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate in 2004.
Since then, she has been a member and chair of the state's Integrated Waste Management Board. The agency is responsible for civil rights enforcement, consumer protection and the licensing of 2.3 million Califomians in more than 230 different professions. It also buys more then $4 billion worth of goods and services, manages state real estate, oversees two state employee pension funds, collects state taxes, hires state employees, adopts state building standards, and runs two state museums, the California Science Center and the California African American Museum. From wire reports IS Bond money must be spent on construction and can not be used for administrator salaries. Schools are required to establish an independent citizens' oversight committee and perform annual audits.
For more information about Hanco*ck's bond, call 922-6966, Ext. 3280, ore-mail bondinfohanco*ckcollege.edu. Michelle Hatfield can be reached at 739-2216 or mhatfield lompocrecord.com. lice and prosecutors said was a botched robbery. Alcox and Richard Lothery were convicted of murdering Patel, and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the crime.
Though he confessed to police, Alcox has since claimed he is innocent. At the evidentiary hearing, Lothery testified that Alcox was not involved in the killing. Lothery said that he and a man named Sanjay Patel entered the motel on the night of the killing, and that Sanjay Patel killed the motel owner. Sanjay Patel, a family friend of the victim, has never been arrested or charged in the Lompoc Motel case. Quintin Cushner can be reached at 739-2217 or qcushner lompoc record.com.
would not prosecute Garcia. Prosecutors said they reached their conclusions based on police findings, statements from witnesses and forensic tests. Final motion in Alcox case filed with appeals court million in matching state money. Ortiz acknowledged that since some projects aren't slated to be finished until 2013 and inflation and construction costs are only going up, not all projects will get done. The bond would be collected based on assessed not appraised property value.
For property owners within the college district's boundaries, it would increase taxes $25 for every $100,000 of assessed value. The average assessed value no sufficient showing that Attorney Biely was prejudicially ineffective in his representa tion of Joel Alcox at trial," Franklin wrote. Defense attorney Drous said that Judge Garcia did not initially permit her to ex-f plore the ali i Alcox bi issue. Franklin has also argued in past motions that Biely had no reason to dispute the confession because he correctly viewed it as true. "That is ridiculous," Drous said.
"The Sixth Amendment right to counsel is not just window dressing to get someone to court. There are cases with Although the car Brown was driving had been reported stolen, Garcia and his partner didn't know that and were trying to pull him over because they suspected him of drunk driving. Bratton, who had ruled in Garcia's favor, said the matter will be reviewed next by the department's three-member of homes in Hanco*ck's district in 2005-06 is $241,922, meaning the average homeowner would pay approximately $60.50 each year, according to Hanco*ck spokeswoman Rebecca Alarcio. During public comment, Jim May admitted that $180 million was a lot but said investing in education was worth the taxes. If approved, the first lump of bonds would probably be issued in August and would tax property owners as soon as the 2006-07 year.
false confessions." While the appeals court weighs Judge Garcia's decision, Alcox is in Santa Barbara County Jail with bail set at $1.1 million. He spent more than 18 years in prison after he was convicted of murder. If the appeals court affirms Garcia's ruling, the District Attorney's Office can file for a review of the case with the California Supreme Court. If prosecutors decline further appeal, the Alcox case may go to trial this year. If the justices side with prosecutors and find that Garcia's decision was wrong, the original conviction would stand and Alcox would be sent back to prison.
Thakorbhai Patel was fatally shot Feb. 16, 1986, at the Lompoc Motel in the 1500 block of North Street during what po Board of Rights, which will determine if the officer's actions rise to a level of misconduct that requires discipline. If the board finds Garcia guilty of misconduct, discipline could range from an admonishment to dismissal. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office announced last month that it rules L. A.
officer violated policy when he killed teen BY QUINTIN CUSHNER SENIOR STAFF WRITER The Santa Barbara County District Attorney's office has filed its final motion with a Ventura appeals court that Feb. 9 will consider whether a man convicted of murdering a Lompoc innkeeper almost 20 years ago deserves a new trial. The three-justice panel at the 2nd District Court of Appeal next week will consider arguments from Senior Deputy District Attorney Gerald Franklin and Alcox's attorney, Juliana Drous. The justices will decide within 90 days whether to affirm or reverse a June 22 ruling by Superior Court Judge Art Garcia, who ordered a new trial after finding that Alcox's former attorney, the late Ken Biely, mounted an inadequate de Commission by Paul Chavez ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES The officer who shot a 13-year-old boy to death after the youth rammed the vehicle he was driving into a patrol car violated Los Angeles Police Department policy, the civilian-run Police Commission ruled Tuesday. While the commission determined that Officer Steven Garcia acted properly when he drew his weapon at Devin Brown, commissioners said he violated policy when he fired 10 rounds, striking the boy six times.
The 4-1 ruling was at odds with that of Police Chief William Bratton who determined Garcia had followed use-of-force policies. The Feb. 6, 2005, shooting inflamed tensions in South Los Angeles, and the Police Commission's ruling was being closely watched by community activists who have accused the department of racism. Brown was black and the officer is His- panic. More than two dozen black spectators stood in silence inside a police auditorium as the commission announced its "The sadness of this incident cannot be overstated," said The Lompoc RECORD Commission President John W.
Mack. "For those of us who are blessed with children, the loss of a child is unimaginable. We all share in this loss and tragedy." The police union's president said he was "angered and dismayed" by the ruling. "The lesson that should be learned from that night is that at 4 a.m. kids like Devin Brown need to be safely home in bed," said Bob Baker, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
"The community needs to work to keep kids away from drugs, gangs and stolen cars." Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa issued a statement saying he recognized "there are strong feelings about this case." "And while some may disagree with the outcome, they should do so with the understanding that a full and complete investigation and consideration of the facts has taken place," Villaraigosa said. The shooting occurred after Garcia and his partner attempted to pull over a 1990 Toyota Camry Brown was driving and he led them on a brief chase that ended with him crashing into a fence. His passenger fled, but Brown threw the vehicle into reverse and rammed a patrol car, prompting Garcia to shoot. OPEN NOW 1 15 North Lompoc, CA 93436 P.O. Box 578.
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