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May 23, 2014 Dr. Richard Vladovic President, Board of Education Los Angeles Unified School District 333 South Beaudry Street, 24th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 RE: LAUSD School Construction Bond Citizens’ Oversight Committee Dear President Vladovic:

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|LA) hereby affirms our nomination of Stuart Magruder, AIA, for a second two-year term on the Los Angeles Unified School District School Construction Bond Citizens’ Oversight Committee (BOC). We understand that on May 20, 2014, the LAUSD Board of Education chose to table the nomination. Therefore, we respectfully resubmit Mr. Magruder as our nominee and look forward to having the Board appoint him at their June 10, 2014 board meeting.

AIA|LA supports the mission of the LAUSD Bond Oversight Committee, which is to oversee the expenditure of money for the construction, repair, and modernization of schools. According to section 3.1.8 of the Charter and Memorandum of Understanding, the School Board shall appoint to the 15-person Oversight Committee one member nominated by the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter. Stuart Magruder, as the past-President of AIA Los Angeles, serves this role as a successor to our previous nominees: Chester A. Widom, FAIA – who is now serving the State of California as the State Architect; Virginia Tanzmann, FAIA – who is now serving as a Vice President of Architecture for Parsons Brinckherhoff; and Michael Lehrer, FAIA of Principal of Lehrer Architects. Each of AIA|LA’s appointees has served the BOC with honor, grace and an ongoing commitment to the Los Angeles architecture and design community. Therefore, we are confident that LAUSD will continue to receive valuable insight and expertise from an architect appointed to the Citizens’ Oversight Committee. Vis-à-vis our nomination of Mr. Magruder, the AIA|LA Board of Directors upholds the values, merits and principals of a bond program, which is intended to build and maintain schools that promote the full development of the child and, through qualities of design excellence, serve neighborhoods as community centers. Furthermore, we welcome clarification as to whether or not purchasing technological applications such as computer tablets is a permissible use of bond funds. We are confident that this legal clarification will help the Oversight Committee exercise more precisely the duties of its mission. When the passage of Proposition 39 in 2000 led to the provision of the Education Code that required that the Board of Education appoint all BOC members, we and the other stakeholders agreed to the Memorandum of Understanding between the District and the BOC that, while the formal appointment would be done by the Board as a receive and file, the Board would faithfully

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appoint the nominee of each stakeholder group. For AIA|LA, this is memorialized in the MOU as follows:

• 3.1.8. The Board shall appoint one member nominated by the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter.

Therefore, the AIA|LA respectfully requests to have Mr. Magruder recognized as our appointee for a second term at the first available Board meeting. If the Board is unable to recognize Mr. Magruder as our appointee, then please contact AIA|LA immediately with additional clarification and instructions on the most effective path forward. Respectfully, AIA|LA welcomes the opportunity to serve LAUSD with the leadership to improve the built environment and we trust that the Board of Education intends to execute its duties in a transparent and equitable manner. Very truly yours,

Nicci Solomons, Hon. AIA Executive Director, AIA Los Angeles cc: Daniel Hwang

Bond Oversight Committee 333 S. Beaudry Ave. 23rd Fl. Los Angeles, CA 90017