Van de Kamps Coalition
The Van de Kamps (VdK) Coalition is dedicated to the preservation and adaptive reuse of the
historic Van de Kamps Bakery building as the promised Community College Satellite Campus.
About the Van de Kamps Coalition
The Van de Kamps (VdK) Coalition is composed of community groups and individuals who came together in 1999 to save the 1930 historic Van de Kamps Dutch revival building in Northeast Los Angeles. The Coalition succeeded in preserving the historic building and securing a commitment from Los Angeles Community College (LACC) to place a Satellite Campus there. Seed money was secured by Senator Richard Polanco, voters passed bonds to fund it. As this is written, construction nears completion, but a terrible wrong is being perpetuated on our community.
The promised Satellite Campus to bring higher education to our Northeast communities, is in danger of disappearing, a victim of Community College politics. LACC has transferred the project to the Community College District Administrative (LACCD) offices under the pretext of the budget crisis. The truth is that the College and the District have taken advantage of the budget crisis and chosen not to exercise options that could provide funding, instead serving political interests and try to make money off of the site. The District is an “administrative only” institution of downtown bureaucrats who do not provide education. The District plans to rent the site out and use our precious community treasure to raise funds for the District bureaucrats, not even for education at a Community College campus!
This web site is dedicated to fighting this taking of a community bond funded project, to restoring the Satellite Campus and to providing information, history and documentation about this project.
This is a complex issue. We will post documents showing that bonds which we taxpayers voted on that specify that funds are to be used to benefit students and only students are, we believe, being misused. We will document the political machinations that were used to put these actions into motion, we will post documents and videos that show contradictory information being disseminated by both LACC and LACCD and provide information on what you can do to help right this wrong.
Contact us at vdkcoalition@gmail.com
Visit us on Facebook
www.facebook.com/VandeKamps
The Van de Kamps (VdK) Coalition is composed of community groups and individuals who came together in 1999 to save the 1930 historic Van de Kamps Dutch revival building in Northeast Los Angeles. The Coalition succeeded in preserving the historic building and securing a commitment from Los Angeles Community College (LACC) to place a Satellite Campus there. Seed money was secured by Senator Richard Polanco, voters passed bonds to fund it. As this is written, construction nears completion, but a terrible wrong is being perpetuated on our community.
The promised Satellite Campus to bring higher education to our Northeast communities, is in danger of disappearing, a victim of Community College politics. LACC has transferred the project to the Community College District Administrative (LACCD) offices under the pretext of the budget crisis. The truth is that the College and the District have taken advantage of the budget crisis and chosen not to exercise options that could provide funding, instead serving political interests and try to make money off of the site. The District is an “administrative only” institution of downtown bureaucrats who do not provide education. The District plans to rent the site out and use our precious community treasure to raise funds for the District bureaucrats, not even for education at a Community College campus!
This web site is dedicated to fighting this taking of a community bond funded project, to restoring the Satellite Campus and to providing information, history and documentation about this project.
This is a complex issue. We will post documents showing that bonds which we taxpayers voted on that specify that funds are to be used to benefit students and only students are, we believe, being misused. We will document the political machinations that were used to put these actions into motion, we will post documents and videos that show contradictory information being disseminated by both LACC and LACCD and provide information on what you can do to help right this wrong.
Contact us at vdkcoalition@gmail.com
Visit us on Facebook
www.facebook.com/VandeKamps
BREAKING NEWS
LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY FINDS LACCD ROUTINELY VIOLATES BROWN ACT PROMPTED FROM COMPLAINT FILED BY VDK COALTION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LETTER FROM LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY
COMPLAINT FILED BY VDK COALTION
EXHIBITS
ACTION ALERT
LACCD VDK OPTIONS POWER POINT
5-3-12 CEQA FINAL JUDGEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: VAN DE KAMPS COALITION NOTCHES NEW COURT VICTORY AGAINST COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD
2-8-12 VDK JUDGEMENT
MEMO FROM DR. LAVISTA RE: CONSTRUCTION MORATORIUM
LETTER FROM LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY STARTING INVESTIGATION REGARDING INSPECTOR GENERAL CHRISTINE MAREZ APPOINTMENT
LETTER FROM CIVIL GRAND JURY
LACCD VDK OPTIONS POWER POINT
5-3-12 CEQA FINAL JUDGEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: VAN DE KAMPS COALITION NOTCHES NEW COURT VICTORY AGAINST COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD
2-8-12 VDK JUDGEMENT
MEMO FROM DR. LAVISTA RE: CONSTRUCTION MORATORIUM
LETTER FROM LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY STARTING INVESTIGATION REGARDING INSPECTOR GENERAL CHRISTINE MAREZ APPOINTMENT
LETTER FROM CIVIL GRAND JURY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- COURT'S SUPPLEMENTAL EIR ORDER FOR VAN DE KAMPS MEANS LACCD BOARD MAY FACE AN ANGRY NORTHEAST PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS
9-12-11 CEQA 1 FINAL DECISION
GREUEL INVESTIGATION OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AT LACCD: INDEPENDENT OR MORE COVER UP?
LACCD BOARD OF TRUSTEES REFUSE TO ADOPT RESOLUTION TO RELEASE VAN DE KAMPS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT RECORDS TO STATE CONTROLLERS OFFICE
PRESS RELEASE: 9-8-11 CEQA COURT RULING
PRESS RELEASE: VDK COALITION FILES FORMAL REQUEST WITH LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND CIVIL GRAND JURY FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF THE LACCD BOND PROGRAM
LETTER TO LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND CIVIL GRAND JURY WITH EXHIBITS
VDK Press Release on State Controller's 8/10/11 Audit
Chaing Finds Poor Management of LACCD Bonds
LACCD Audit Report Prop. A/AA & Measure J Bond Expenditures
LACCD Board Must Terminate Its General Counsel, Camille Goulet (PDF)
Fulbright and Jaworski Report on Bond Use
Capstone Report on Bonds
9-12-11 CEQA 1 FINAL DECISION
GREUEL INVESTIGATION OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AT LACCD: INDEPENDENT OR MORE COVER UP?
LACCD BOARD OF TRUSTEES REFUSE TO ADOPT RESOLUTION TO RELEASE VAN DE KAMPS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT RECORDS TO STATE CONTROLLERS OFFICE
PRESS RELEASE: 9-8-11 CEQA COURT RULING
PRESS RELEASE: VDK COALITION FILES FORMAL REQUEST WITH LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND CIVIL GRAND JURY FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF THE LACCD BOND PROGRAM
LETTER TO LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND CIVIL GRAND JURY WITH EXHIBITS
VDK Press Release on State Controller's 8/10/11 Audit
Chaing Finds Poor Management of LACCD Bonds
LACCD Audit Report Prop. A/AA & Measure J Bond Expenditures
LACCD Board Must Terminate Its General Counsel, Camille Goulet (PDF)
Fulbright and Jaworski Report on Bond Use
Capstone Report on Bonds
LACCD OIG Van de Kamp Innovation Center report (PDF)
