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Scott Svonkin is an elected Trustee of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). Svonkin was elected as a trustee of LACCD in on May 17, 2011. He is one of seven on the Board of Trustees for the LACCD, the largest community college district in the United States. He currently serves as the Board’s President Svonkin ran as a candidate seeking to reform the bidding and construction policies of LACCD. Prior to his election the Los Angeles Times “investigation found tens of millions of dollars” from the LACCD’s $5.7 billion bond construction program “had been wasted because of lax oversight, questionable spending, poor workmanship and inadequate planning.” As this information came forward it was learned that the LACCD lacked formal policies on for spending the money from construction bonds. After he was elected to the LACCD Board, Svonkin pushed for a policy that would provide greater oversight to the use of bond funds. The LACCD Board approved this policy. The California State Controller’s Office also found that prior to Svonkin’s election the LACCD had failed to follow “its own bidding rules in choosing someone with no experience in audits or investigations over higher-rated applicants” when the district had hired its inspector general. “Scott Svonkin, one of two people who joined the seven-member board in July, was the only trustee to speak in favor of an independent investigation.” == Early life == Svonkin is a native of Los Angeles County and the son of a public school teacher. Svonkin fell in love with the sport of tennis at a young age. At 15 he attended the United States Tennis Association’s officiating school and was certified as an umpire. He was the youngest tennis umpire in the nation. By the age of 16, Svonkin umpired his first tennis match at the U.S. Open. Svonkin went on to umpire 8 years at the U.S. Open. During that time “Martina Navratilova smiled at him. John McEnroe screamed at him. When he called a foot fault on Hana Mandilkova, a fan threatened to kill him." As a child Svonkin suffered from asthma, which caused him to miss a great deal of school. In 2006, the Los Angeles Times featured Svonkin as an example of a person that was unable to obtain health insurance because of his childhood illness. “High-risk enrollees include people like Scott Svonkin, who make time for at least one tennis match each week…. After suffering debilitating bouts of asthma as a child, he clearly relishes the ability to exercise. He credits medications that were not around when he was growing up. But the very drugs that have allowed him to breathe freely for years may also cost him his health coverage.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scott Svonkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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