good afternoon my name is Ann-Marie Gabel and I am the vice president of administrative
services here at Long Beach City College
it's my pleasure to welcome you to this
amazing new building likely until a
little bit cooler today than it was
yesterday so thank you for joining us
and enjoy your shade 122 he yesterday so
this is nothing anyways I would like to
introduce the members of our Board of
Trustees and the other elected officials
and dignitaries here with us today the
first we have our board president mr.
Delgado we have trustee Dr Virginia
Baxter
trustees any the vice president of the
board and our trusty just killer cannot
be with us today but they sent their
regrets we also have representing the
6th district for the city of Long Beach
council member D Andrews representing
the 7th district for the city of Long
Beach councilmember Roberto Luongo we
have the Chief of Staff of the city of
Long Beach representing the Mayor Robert
Garcia Mr Mark Taylor
we also have miss Alison Gallagher
representing assembly member Patrick
O'Donnell who has provided a certificate
for us we have a miss Alison Anderson
representing council member Stacy Mungo
certificate and honor today's
ribbon-cutting as well as congressman
Alan Lowenthal for sending a certificate
representing our district line Beach
Community College District we have our
superintendent president Eli Ortiz
Oakley executive vice-president Miss
louanne by a number
vice president human resources and audio
vice president student support services
dr. Greg Peterson and citizens Oversight
Committee with us here today we have Mr
Bill Marmion
John got David C John here and stellar
sOooo they weren't except for John they
weren't able to be here with us today
but they do commit a lot of time and
dedication to the college so we want to
thank them we also have two former
citizens Oversight Committee members
with this year mr Barry McDaniel
so now I'm pleased president who will
say a few words for his dedication to
historic preservation and Long Beach and
a member of the LBCC Hall of Fame has
served line Beach Community College
District Board representing area for
since his election in 2004 please join
me in welcoming board president Otto
here this is a tremendous occasion I was
driving down here this afternoon and I
said the school has even started yet but
an amazing accomplishment I was wrong we
have a tremendous crowd for a tremendous
reasons so good afternoon everyone on
behalf of the trustees of the Long Beach
Community College District the last time
that we gathered in this spot was in
September 2013 when we broke ground on
construction of the math technology and
culinary arts building I remember coming
up to the podium after the Bears were
over and I said yards in math technology
ok let's let's see how this one rules so
I'm delighted to be able to celebrate
this new addition to our Long Beach
Community College District facilities
both here and down at the PCC campus
well this combination here of
mathematics and culinary arts may sound
like an odd recipe the two or more
connected than you might think would be
a good chef you have to have good
good good math skills I don't think you
need calculus you need some math skills
in order to be a good shift six yet we
have many many people to thank today
about this project but first and
foremost we want to thank the residents
of the city the we want we want to thank
the residents because they're really
responsible for this in 2002 and 2008 we
passed on measures with over 70% of
voter approval to do six hundred and
sixteen 615 million dollars worth of
improvements and we're we're not done
with that money we're running it out
with facilities master plan that we put
together at the time and it is literally
transformed the campuses at Long Beach
City College if you go to the Pacific
Coast campus probably don't know he used
to be a junior high school is to be
Hamilton junior high school now looks
like a 21st century college campus and
the students down there are excited not
only by the construction and with the
new buildings are doing but by the
opportunities being provided to people
who predominantly live in that part of
the city but who also travel from this
campus and other parts of the city to go
there I'm proud to say that this project
has been rapid rep excuse me recognized
by the community college facilities
coalition with an Award of Merit and
project designed and in the category of
professional awards the total space of
this building is almost 74,000 square
feet which brings both culinary arts and
mathematics together and this is
important this is a LEED Platinum
building a benchmark for green buildings
the first and I think the last LEED
Platinum building in Long Beach was at
the Aquarium of the Pacific and since
then
green buildings have been apart
all of the construction that's possible
Long Beach other public construction and
we gotta give ourselves a hand having
done so I behalf of the Board of
Trustees I would like to thank everybody
who has been involved in this project I
would like to thank the the construction
team would like to thank the
administrators I'd like to thank
everybody that's pulled together over
the last the last year's to put this
project together in the last couple
couple of years if I was Rip Van Winkle
and fell asleep in 2013 and woke up
today and looked at what has happened in
Long Beach City College I would think I
was in the wrong place because this is
truly set a course for the future I
particularly like to recognize our
design and development team so on then
right architecture here with us today
where are you there
without further ado I'm going to turn
this over to our superintendent
president is going to talk to you a
little bit more about what this
afternoon everyone thank you for being
here another great day long beach first
of all let me recognize individuals who
also provided as certificates of
recognition for this day I want to thank
councilmember Roberto Luongo for
providing us the certificate of
recognition and of course Roberto has a
very special place year-long a city
college he was one of the board members
here for many many years who saw the
potential of this college through our
facility so thank you
council member for being here and for
your continued commitment to Long Beach
City College also want to thank Mayor
Robert Garcia for providing a
certificate of recognition as well and
of course they are going to CNN's chief
staffmark also have a strong tight Long
Beach City College to thank you for your
ongoing support although I was looking
for checks and parents well
perhaps you left them at the office and
mail check is always in the mail from
the city
ok now seriously thank you for your
support and all of you thank you for
being here this is truly a wonderful
opportunity be able to stand before you
today and we've had many ribbon cuttings
and each one is special in its own way
and this one is truly special one of the
reasons it's truly special is because it
really exemplifies what we're trying to
accomplish in Long Beach City College in
this facility this facility has been
talked about plan for many many many
many years and it really is the fruition
of a vision that we haven't let up on we
had a vision that we were going to build
the very best career technical education
facilities that we can provide our
students as well as continue to focus on
those skills and all of our students
need to succeed and of course
mathematics is one of those skills that
we want to ensure every student has the
opportunity to master to be successful
in our society our students are going to
have the wonderful opportunity hanging
out in this very modern space in this
very modern college and how eighty-seven
years young and we're really looking
forward to the experience that they're
going to have it is truly the region's
premier culinary arts and math facility
now and we're very proud of that fact
but this bill they won't be here but for
the dreams of many many people for many
many years and one of those folks is
several those folks are here with us
today I want to recognize Chef Steve
going arrows here with us today
here for many many years and of course
someone who someone who had always push
for this facility chef remain pertain I
always joke with Romain that we would
build this as soon as he retired in a
few years later here we are no seriously
these these individuals have been
talking about it for silly for so long
that it's wonderful to be able to
celebrate with them here today to thank
you to you both for being here and of
course this dream is also been nurtured
by our current chefs and particularly
their department head of our culinary
arts program chef Pierre thank you for
all the work he gets to take all those
dreams and make them into reality we're
really looking forward to all the great
things that the department is going to
accomplish over the years and of course
I want to thank the community as well
board member auto mentioned all the
great support that we received from the
community and you know there have been
many times when the community and
rightfully so question how we plan to
spend their money and I hope in this
building so you can see that we have
committed to a vision for this college
and for the Pacific Coast College
despite everything that was going on
around us we're committed to a vision
there were many people who suggested
that we should go a different direction
or maybe perhaps we should abandon the
previous direction but one thing we
wanted to ensure that this campus and
the Pacific Coast campus maintain their
history within the city of Long Beach
maintain their architecture and we've
committed to that and I hope you see
from these facilities that not only are
they beautiful facilities that only are
the modern state of the art educational
facilities but they maintain that
history of Long Beach City College the
architecture of Long Beach City College
is not something that was very important
to us from day one of course many people
said well you're not going to be very
efficient if you stick to the
architecture you know it's not just
about being the most efficient but about
continuing to exude along which is all
about its history and its promise for
the future and that's what these
buildings are all about so thank you to
the community for all their support thus
far and for all their future support as
we continue to build out this college
into the premier college in southern
california throughout the state so
behind me are seven kitchens which
hopefully you'll get a chance to look at
a restaurant a bakery herb garden and
patio dining and of course in front is
the mass June success owner with a high
tech math classrooms that would be the
envy of any college and more than 45,000
square feet dedicated it to math
learning areas I am very proud of our
math department no rich Weber who was
the department chair of our math faculty
please rich behalf of all of us thank
you to you but this has really engage in
the notion of doing everything they can
to up in the way we teach me and the way
we measure learning so I want to thank
them for all their effort and I really
look forward to all the great things
that they're gonna do in this facility
for our students between our actual
instructors and needs new classrooms
labs and success enters a subject of
course you know we all have dreaded
going through college math is really at
the heart of this facility and I want to
thank everyone who has had a hand in
putting this together to putting the
curriculum together the thinking behind
our message Success Center together and
I really look forward for our students
the results of their gonna
have also want to thank a few other
folks are here of course you'll hear
from our teen
recent being here for many many years as
well and had a big hand bringing it to
fruition talked about a retired
sheriff's chef pertains to operate
Caballero and also chef Frank metric all
who's here with us as well we've also
had a couple of Dean come through and
have a big role in this former dean Greg
Schultz and ken starr who's here as well
can thank you for all of your smartphone
a member to the Administrative Services
staff who day-in and day-out do
everything we can to make our facilities
are very best of course they're fearless
leader vice president Marie gable
facilities director jim wooten deputy
directors met honey ephraim Cindy hangs
and Mark I just please join me in a
round of applause for them as well
and part of the great consistency that
we've had includes corporation our bond
management group and mr. George plot was
led to court over Corporation since the
beginning I want to thank all of them
for all of their hard work and for
helping them continue helping us
continue to move this vision forward so
please join me around plus for the
Cordoba country
you know I think former board member
also need to thank former board member
Tom Clark and former board member Mark
Bowen who were here also during the 2008
bombing campaign and who work hard have
a cohesive vision for this college and
it's very difficult to maintain a
cohesive vision because you know there
are different things that happened
throughout the years of the life of a
college that force you to rethink about
the direction that you're going but to
their credit they saw the potential
promise of what these facilities were
going to provide our students and they
stuck with it so please join me round of
applause for Tom as well as mark Bowen
another round of court after think the
current Board of Trustees and of course
I have to thank doubling think dr.
Virginia Baxter who before she was a
trust C champion our bond measure so
thank you Jenny for all of your
continued work address he was bringing
her experience to help us continue to
make this the best bond program in the
state and of course to all of you this
community who continue to support us and
for making this continue to be your
community college we look forward to
having you back here in the very near
future to enjoy our food to take part in
various activities that we're going to
have here in this building to enjoy our
working Restaurant when it's ready or
not ready yet but chef jeff is gonna
give it up pretty soon and thank you for
continuing to make this a very best
college then it can be so I want to hand
it over now please join me in welcoming
dr Park recent up to the podium and he's
going to tell you a whole lot more about
building me
good afternoon everybody I would like to
tell you how excited we are in the math
area to get into this new building it's
it's really a great facility and that
the technology I'm gonna tell you a
little bit about its excellent first I'd
also like to acknowledge a few people
I'd like to acknowledge that the math
faculty that are here today please wear
your family of products already
acknowledged whatever our department
head we've got new math faculty here
today it's a really exciting time we
also had some significant help from our
bond management team I'd like to
acknowledge Lisa Hernandez bill Valadez
algebra D and Molly Grasset thank you
very much for everything is helping us
plan to discuss over the and of course
facilities in IITs nothing can be done
around here without their dedication and
they've been buzzing around for months
and months particularly the last couple
weeks making sure that we have this
facility ready to go on Monday so we're
really excited about that
thank you very much and I also want to
acknowledge our biking cheer squad over
there how about a shout out from Long
Beach City College
so I'm gonna tell you a little bit about
this new facility and we are gonna be
offering some tours right after this
ceremony so you'll get a chance to check
out some of the space some of the
faculty and myself will be touring as
well as some of the the culinary faculty
so we have a new math success center
complete with seventy computer
workstations and five study and math
workshop rooms and that's over here on
the corner there are 15 new math
classrooms with charging stations and
expanded capacity for wireless computer
assisted instruction we have four
dedicated math computer lab classrooms
we have an all new faculty office suite
with large study rooms near the offices
so students and faculty can interact
outside the glass and during faculty
office hours it's so wonderful space and
what will this facility due from the
math department
well the way that math is changed its an
organic process innovations such as
flipping the classrooms and integrating
technology have allowed faculty to the
chain to change the way content is
delivered this facility has the
technology to promote and support
innovation our math labs and new
wireless ready classrooms will allow
methods to enhance the student's
comprehension and ultimately achieve
higher success rates in the classroom
the math faculty are very happy and
excited to enter this new facility
during an exciting time in the field of
mathematics teaching and learning is
transforming and wireless more
classrooms include charging stations for
students to use their laptops tablets
and phones and allow faculty to
integrate more technology to help
students learn
as I mentioned faculty led innovations
have resulted in students who who are
succeeding at a higher rate this is an
exciting time for department according
to our department had mister rich Weber
this department currently is like the
wild wild west that's a quote from rich
if it if it's gonna work to help
students succeed
go for it and that's the culture of that
this facility is helping to provide for
our math department I wanted to mention
that we do have a math for culinary arts
course on our curriculum which is pretty
exciting and as president openly
mentioned they are very interconnected
as far as success in in those fields we
are also concentrating on growing our
engineering program here at Long Beach
City College and I know that we have
partners from Long Beach Unified and Cal
State Long Beach that are here with us
today but our engineering program
continues to grow and we have excellent
connections and this facility is going
to help us create an engineering lab
that will help grow those programs so to
conclude what I'd like to say is that
are excellent faculty in this new
facility has all the tools necessary to
continue to help bail BC students
succeed and be better at math and be
more successful in all the courses that
require so I along with the math faculty
would like to thank everybody for
helping with this wonderful facility
thank you all very much
corporation construction and architects
for both designing and building such a
wonderful facility that we can't wait to
start utilizing next week thanks to all
of you for being here today so we're
going to do the ribbon cutting the
ribbon cutting you're all invited to
join a guided tour through the
building's just past the hour trying to
my left over here you'll see two guys in
black shirt he will lead you through the
buildings and explain how they will be
used to enhance the student experience
as a going away gift and help you to
learn how to measure better using your
math skills or chrome take the class
registration still going on so if you
want out of class feel free
board president Otto Porter Virginia
Baxter and then easier to join me in
cutting the ribbon
failing the black thank you for coming
