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LWV League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Los Angeles County, CA March 5, 2013 Election
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Mike Eng
Answers Questions

Candidate for
Member of the Board of Trustees; Los Angeles Community College District; Office 2

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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles and asked of all candidates for this office.
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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?

The historic budget cuts must be reversed with increased funding for community colleges now that the economy is giving evidence of recovery

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?

Community colleges most do both at the same time

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

As a former mayor and city council member I have presided over and attended 4 years of budget hearings; as a state legislator I have faced 6 years of difficult "fiscal cliff" state budget management issues; as chair of the assembly business and professions committee, I co-chaired the historic oversight hearings on a state consumer affairs board that had been improperly managed in very serious ways.

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 will not prejudge this matter which may come up in the event I am elected. I would like to hear more about how this affects democratic governance as well as any budgetary issue.

Responses to questions asked of each candidate are reproduced as submitted to the League. 

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