Application 06-12-005 et al. Exhibit Date: August___, 2008 PREPARED TESTIMONY 1 OF : STEVE BAGBY ! Q. Please tell us your name. A. Steve Bagby. Q. Where do you live? A. Ilive in Monterey Hills. Q. Where did you grow up? ‘A. [grew up on Mansfield Avenue, which is one block west of La Brea, roughly one-half’ mile from the Dorsey High School campus. Q. Where did you go to school? A. Tama proud graduate of Dorsey High School, class of 1965. Q. Please describe your ongoing connections to Dorsey High School. ‘A. am the president of the Dorsey High School Alumni Association, member of the Motivated Men organization, and the Dorsey Complex representative for the District 3 Community/Parent Advisory Council. Q Please describe the Dorsey High School Alumni Association. A. The Dorsey High School Alumni Association is the official organization for Dorsey Dons alumni throughout the country. The Vice President of the Dorsey Alumni Association, Andrea Canty, is a member of the United Community Associations board of directors.Q. Please describe Motivated Men. A. Motivated Men is a recently created organization that coordinates with members of the alumni association, school staff and the neighboring community to place a significant number of minority male role models on the Dorsey campus The group’s goal is to make the neighboring community a stronger partner in our efforts to tackle some of the problems on campus and in the process provide positive adult minority male role models for the students. We ask the volunteers to commit one day a month to do little, but significant, things such as greeting the students in the hall to make sure they get to class on time and just being around and showing that we care. Q. Please describe the Community/Parent Advisory Council A. The LAUSD Local District 3 Community/Parent Advisory Council is composed of representatives from the schools, who regularly meet with the superintendent of the local district to discuss and strategize about the impact of district policies on our schools. As the Dorsey Complex Representative, I represent Dorsey, and its feeder elementary schools, Q. Please deseribe the extent of your work with students at Dorsey High School. A. Asamember of Motivated Men and president of the alumni association, I’m on Dorsey’s campus at least 3 times a week representing the interest of the alumni, assisting the parents and teachers, and doing whatever the administrators and students need to help provide the children with the tools and support they need to make it out of Dorsey with a diploma, and ideally, with a college acceptance letter. We have to “reach one-teach one,” one student at a time, and | and other committed volunteers are trying to do our part.Q What is the purpose of your testimony? A. The purpose of my testimony is to describe my concems as President of the Dorsey High School Alumni Association about the impact of the at-grade Farmdale Avenue crossing and the Expo Line project on Dorsey High School. Q. Please describe your involvement in this Expo Line issue, A. When I was first approached to assist the parents and community on this Expo Line issue in mid-2007, I became involved in the campaign to “Fix Expo” with the community group now known as United Community Associations. As the former long-time senior staffer for the late Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald, | know how difficult any political struggle can be, especially fights for additional resources for South Los Angeles. In my capacity as the Congresswoman’s Transportation Deputy I oversaw, on her behalf, the construction of the Alameda Corridor project, and was her liaison to MTA. Q. How was the past experience helpful? ‘A. There are some striking similarities between the Alameda Corridor project and the numerous community groups’ concerns about the Expo Line. The Alameda Corridor was a massive public works project to grade separate tracks that transported cargo from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles. That project was instrumental in addressing the air quality and health impact issues and other adverse impacts that were created by the traffic back up from the at-grade freight line. The hallmark of the Alameda Corridor project is the 10-mile long, three-track trench, which cost roughly $700 million to construct. On one of the tours of the light rail lines sponsored by the West Adams Neighborhood Council with the leaders of some of the community groups around the Expo Line, we stopped by the