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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – The Signal Editorial: There’s Strength In Our Numbers

The following was an editorial that appeared in The Signal on March 28, 2010. There is strength in numbers, and Santa Clarita’s movers, shakers and decision-makers stood side-by-side in Sacramento last week to flex their muscles. It was the fifth annual Sacramento Road Trip, organized each year by KHTS AM-1220 radio station owners Carl Goldman and Jeri Seratti-Goldman. With scheduling ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – Santa Clarita Enterprise Zone Position

Located 35 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, the City of Santa Clarita encompasses 52-square miles, with a population of approximately 180,000 residents. Santa Clarita is a leading business community in North Los Angeles County, with numerous entertainment, biomedical, technology, and aerospace companies. The City of Santa Clarita is home to the largest master-planned industrial park in Los Angeles County, ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – College of the Canyons Position

The Big Picture Enrollment is surging higher at California Community Colleges, driven by fee increases at UC and CSU systems, and a high statewide unemployment rate of 12.5 percent (January 2010).While faced with increased demands for service, community colleges took $766.9 million in budget cuts in 2008-09 and 2009-10. Our share at College of the Canyons was $12 million in ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – I-5 Coalition Position

I-5 LOS ANGELES-SANTA CLARITA GATEWAY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The North Los Angeles County Interstate 5 project proposes to extend the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on I-5 from the State Route 14 (SR14) Interchange to Parker Road and to incorporate truck climbing lanes from the SR-14 Interchange to Pico CanyonRoad/Lyons Avenue. Caltrans is the project lead along with the ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – Castaic Lake Water Agency Position

2010 Legislative Water Policy Priorities Issue: Californians deserve a water supply that provides reliable, good quality water to its residents, sustains its economy and its environment. Background: All of these goals have suffered with the water stalemate of the past decades. In November 2009, California took an important step forward with the passage of a comprehensive water package that addressed ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – Saugus Union School District Position

Background Facts Saugus Union School District is an elementary pre-school through 6th grade district in the Santa Clarita Valley. We have an operating budget of approximately 110 million. We have 10,350 students housed in 15 schools. Our enrollment has been steadily declining over the past four years. We are the administrative unit for the Special Education Local Planning Area (SELPA). ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – Santa Clarita Valley Education Coalition Position

“School district board members, administrators, teachers, employees, parents and community leaders acting as individual entities lobbying the state for education funding that maintains the current mandated system.”   The SCV Education Coalition is composed of educational leaders, teachers and employees from the four elementary school districts, Castaic, Newhall, Saugus and Sulphur Springs and from the William S. Hart High School ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – Domestic Violence Position

Protect State Funding For Domestic Violence Programs ISSUEThe Domestic Violence Center of the Santa Clarita Valley, the area’s only agency serving a 250 square mile area, is facing significant challenges again this year as the Governor Schwarzenegger has failed to include funding for California’s domestic violence programs in the 2010/11 State budget. As a consequence of this action, the Santa ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010- COC Post-Trip Thoughts

The Sacramento road trip is consistently helpful to College of the Canyons, and the trip last spring was particularly timely and useful. Meetings with legislators, the Legislative Analyst Office (LAO), the Economic Development Division (EDD), the Employment Training Panel (ETP), and the California Workforce Investment Board were highly productive. As a result of these meetings, the College is working with ...

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Sacramento Road Trip 2010 – William S. Hart School District Position

ISSUE #1 – Impact of State Budget Cuts The Hart District’s State revenue has been slashed by $20 million, resulting in increased class size, less counseling support, reduced intervention programs, proposed reduction in instructional days, salary and benefit reductions for both certificated and classified personnel, and lay-offs for classified positions, handicapping our ability to maintain a quality educational program. Requested ...

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