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8 Tkxj Mor. 1 1 978 HI Six to Seek Seats on New Long Beach College Board Ready or Not, Cerritos Will Dedicate New $3.8 Million City Hall Saturday be hardi in the Jr-er here tr.e nchar.al er.t ts as well as the telephone ani trash A napr element here is the Emergency OperaLons Center with communicaiions paraphernalia and dormitory space and other facilities for those lucky enough to survive a catas- trophe. City officials are hoping that of all these facilities, at least the council chamber and the riain lobby, will be ready by Saturday's dedicatioa The 1 pjn. ceremony will begin with a ribbon-cutting, continue with commendations and other speeches and conclude with coffee, punch and a cakelike replica of the new City Hall Bowersox says what residents will be seeing is a new building that will be conducive to good municipal government "Also," adds Mayor Robert Witt, "I think it reflects the philosphy of the city insofar as concern for the environment and concern for aesthetics. "It certainly will be an improvement" That is unless you happen to love strawberries.

BY ROXJLVE ARNOLD CERRITOS Five years ago, it was a strawberry patch, a sea of sonie of the best fruit to be had in these parts. But Saturday, March 18, a new era officially begins for the plot of land at 183rd St. and Bloomfield Ave. when city fathers perhaps somewhat prematurely dedicate their new City Hall, a rain-delayed building that is still two to three months from com-pletioa The second phase of a civic center LONG BEACH Six candidates have filed for two vacant seats on the first, and history-making Board of Trustees for Long Beach City College. The unusual election will be on the June 6 ballot and the college's new board will begin its regime July 1.

The candidates are Dorland Drury, who lists his occupation as school bus driver; Edward F. Gallagher, a business investment consultant Weckf ord Morgan, listed as businessman; Carl Schiermeyer, community planning analyst Donald Scott, college educator, and Ruth Todd, who did not listanoccupatioa Mrs. Todd and Weckford are both members of several Long Beach boards and agencies and are well known as community leaders. Schiermeyer also is active in the community. Scott is a political science teacher at Long Beach College.

They will compete for two seats on the board, the other three already claimed by members of the Board of Education of Long Beach Unified School District hich until now has been the college's governing body. David Burcham. Jeral S. Jaccbs and James Crawford have volunteered to be on the new college board However, they also will continue to serve on the LBUSD Board of Education until their terms end in 1979. At that time they will decide which board, if either, they will continue to serve oa Meanwhile the other LBUSD board members, Elizabeth Wallace and James Zarifes, who have three years remaining on their terms, will serve only on the district board.

It has become almost standard for community colleges to have their own boards and to separate themselves from other school districts. However, previous efforts to do this failed in Long Beach, partly because of added expenses and partly because of Gov. Brown's veto last year. ager Jim Bowersox. will be the showcase of the community.

"To this point in time," Bowersox says, "the City Council to their credit has biult everything else in town. This is the last element It becomes a cornerstone, the last element to round out the city." Bowersox describes the new building as a "one-stop shopping center" for community service, a building "that reflects the attitude of Cerritos, an open building." Visitors enter the brown-toned brick and concrete building on the second really the main floor. Once inside, they face a three-sided counter that provides information from all municipal services, from building and safety to planning, from engineering to public works. Residents can pay their water bills there, purchase a business license or inquire about the City Clerk's Office or the Finance Department A free-standing staircase leads to the third floor where a public terrace will be open to the community once it is landscaped and furnished with lounge chairs. a SAlWfcAltedlWbUs 1 -i INVITES YOU TO There, visitors can catch a glimpse of the bank of solar collector panels, an array of solid black panels framed in bronze aluminum.

The more than 1,400 square feet of paneling is designed to catch the sun's thermal energy and carry it to tanks, where project that began five years ago with the construction of the adjacent Cerritos Public Library, the $3.8 million City Hall, like its neighbor, was built with the help of redevelopment funds. Unique for being the nation's first solar energy-equipped City Hall, the building sprawls across a man-made knoll on more than nine acres of land. Wide windows open onto a garden of walkways and tree-dotted lawns that one day will encircle the building along with fountains designed to spray spirals of water. Although a bank of rooftop solar panels is the structure's most noteworthy feature, its most noticeable are the hanging plants and greenery that decorate the building, both inside and out Inside, the atmosphere is one of spaciousness. Ceilings are high, colors are warm and movement from area to area is easy.

But city officials say the key to the new building some five times larger than the old is increased efficiency. For the first time in years, the use of temporary trailers as a scene for conducting city business will be discontinued. The cramped and musty City Hall that has long since been outdated can be abandoned. But because of the recent rains, the long-awaited two-mile trek to the new quarters has been jarred off schedule. Ironically, when plans were formulated some six months ago for dedication ceremonies, sunny California skies were being blamed for a drought But as the new City Hall took shape, the rains began, forcing city officials to push the opening date further and further back on the calendar.

The move is now set for April 29. "We are about 85 to 90 completed," says Frank Gutierrez, the city's director of public services. "We're doing the finishing work now. What we will be dedicating is an incomplete building." Although workers are hammering, drilling and otherwise laboring in haste to make things ready for the public's first look, their task seems almost insurmountable. Not all the windows are in nor do the walls have paint or paneling yet Ceilings are uncovered and concrete floors bare.

The wooden planters are empty and a second-floor atrium barren. "This is premature," says Gutierrez. "This has been a good project but we've had problems with rains and the delivery of some of our materials. In about three months, youH see the real thing." That real thing, says Asst City Man al vmw HAS EVTOfTKl the heat is transferred to stored water. for jogging, mnmm From our acres of shoes, we feature: Eventually, the heat can be pumped to blowers in the new City Hall's many offices.

mmei qb hmt! Compton Plans to Sign Accord With Developer COMPTON The signing of an exclusive right to negotiate between the city and a development group is the next step to be taken in launching a downtown redevelopment project, according to City Manager Allen J. Parker. Parker said he hopes to put such an agreement before the City Council for its consideration shortly. In redevelopment matters, the council sits as the Urban Community Development Commission. At the time the agreement is presented, the identity of the limited partnership in the proposed redevelopment project will be made public.

CONTRACT Continued from First Page fund revenue. Parker said Compton could save in excess of $1 million by switching over to county fire protectioa Savings in police costs resulting from a change to the county Sheriff havent been computed. The city manager said the key consideration, which needs to be evaluated, is whether there would be a reduction in services with the elimination of local departments, and if so, what would be the extent of such reductions. The Police Department has a total staff of 268 people, including uniformed and'support personnel The complement at the Fire Department is 87. In conversions to contract services, local personnel are absorbed into the county force, Parker said.

Not only does the $40,000 solar energy system provide enough energy to cover almost 60 of the building's SPORTSWEAR: heating needs, but it also provides for cooling and it is excess heat from the system that propels the spiraling water in the ponds outside the build JOGGING SHIRTS Pullover Sweatshirts Tank-Tops Sport T-Shirts ing. RUNNING SHOOTS cottons doubleknits nylon ALL SIZES COLORS STYLES With both heating and cooling measured by an electronic control system, waste is at a minimum, city officials PUMA ABBAS NUCI noa say. Read Opposite the terrace are third-floor offices that house the city's administrative team along with its city attorney, finance director and others. City Council members also maintain ACCESSORIES: STOP-WATCHES ANKLE-WEIGHTS SWEAT BANDS TOTE-BAG ALL STYLES OF WARMUPS offices there. Garden Below their offices, in a separate alcove off the main floor, is the City Council Chamber, an oak-paneled room with seating for more than 200.

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