Board of Facilities: 11/30/2022 meeting

Share: The Board of Facilities discussed the new plans on projects that are coming to Pasadena City College within the next school year.  As of November 18, The Sarafian Project remains on schedule since they just celebrated steel topping off milestone. A white circle piece of steel was signed by everyone in attendance then it was uplifted to be a part of the structure. They also evaluated an ongoing discussion on campus on what is going on with the mirror pools.  The mirror pools have …

Electrical damage in Lot 5 forces top floor closures until spring

Share: Pasadena City College’s parking lot five is currently undergoing renovations due to electrical issues uncovered during a rainstorm in early November.  A rainstorm caused a brief power outage on a couple floors in lot five, exposing some deeper electrical issues on level four and five. The power outage led to the PCC officials’ decision to close the levels off for electrical renovation.  “There was a power outage that basically took a couple of floors offline. It came on all of a sudden during a …

‘Andor’ shines bright in a galaxy far, far away

Share: Despite being announced in 2018, “Andor” was finally released on Disney+ on Sep. 21, 2022. The show follows Diego Luna’s character Cassian Andor in the years leading up to the film that originally introduced him, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”. To put it simply, this show kicks ass and is the best offering on Disney+. It’s enthralling, complex, and most of all, exciting. It’s the space political thriller I didn’t know I needed or wanted for that matter. Between its 12 episodes, the …

Sustainability trumps aesthetics in restoring PCC’s Mirror Pools

Share: For PCC students, faculty and staff, concerns about sustainability and water conservation trump aesthetics in the upcoming redesign of the campus’s reflecting pool.  On November 30, 2022 PCC’s Board of Facilities met to discuss plans for the rehabilitation of PCC’s reflecting pools. Thirty five years after the pools were last restored—some 50 years after they were originally built in 1937—they now require maintenance to the foundation to prevent further leaks and for repairs to be made to the pool’s pumping system. The plans, debuted …