CUDAHY : City to Help Fund Satellite Campus

The City Council voted unanimously last week to help fund a satellite campus of the Los Angeles Community College in Huntington Park to provide adult education opportunities for residents in Southeast Los Angeles.

By contributing $6,000 to the effort, Cudahy joins six other cities that have agreed to support the campus, situated in a Pacific Bell building at 2675 Zoe Ave., in Huntington Park. “The idea was to provide a satellite campus more accessible for people who live in this area,” said Jack Joseph, Cudahy city manager. The East Los Angeles Community College main campus is eight or nine miles away.

Joseph said college officials intend to hold some general education as well as adult education classes there.

The community college, in fact, has operated spring-semester classes out of the building. But because the building is being leased and the college did not provide funds in its budget for that, the nearby cities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Maywood, South Gate and Vernon have pooled money to pay the lease for the first year.

The satellite campus also has to be remodeled and retrofitted with an elevator to meet fire safety standards. Those improvements should be completed by fall.