League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Los Angeles County, CA March 5, 2013 Election
	Ernest Henry Moreno Answers Questions Candidate for Member of the Board of Trustees; Los Angeles Community College District; Office 4

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Questions & Answers

1. What is the single most important issue facing LACCD today? How, as Trustee, would you deal with it?

Student access is directly connected to efficiency of cost management at all educational institutions in the LACCD. I would work to open educational opportunities to all members of our community through the development of cost efficient policies.

2. What do you think should be the balance in LACCD between preparing students for transfer to four-year institutions and programs that provide workforce training?

Establish policies to provide for greater flexibility in allocation of college resources which in turn would allow for the development of academic or transfer courses and workforce courses as the demand for such courses is determine by our service communities. The balance should be determined by demand.

3. What experience in general management, fiscal management and budgetary oversight would you bring to the job of Trustee?

Every position which I have held in a more than 40 year career with the LACCD has involved budget management. In particular, as President of East Los Angeles College and Los Mission College, I was able to increase student enrollment significantly while providing budget balances at the end of each fiscal year.

4. AB 2572 (Furutani) seeks to give the LACCD Board of Trustees authority to make changes in the way Trustees are elected (e.g. by district instead of 'at large') and make it possible to eliminate one round of the two-round LACCD election. Where do you stand on this legislation and the issues involved?

I would not be in favor of alterting the current method of Trustee elections. "At large" elections allows the Board to focus on student success and fiscal efficiency issues as opposed to territorial battles and the compromises demanded by local constituencies.

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