Nine years after being named vice president of administrative services at City College in October 2005, Robert Martinelli will retire in July.
According to Martinelli, he is ready to spend time with his family.
“It’s time to retire,” said Martinelli.
As he moves forward, students, staff and faculty will be reminded of Martinelli through the many contributions he will leave behind.
Through years of planning and executing renovations, upgrades and facelifts on ...
With the academic year winding down, I once again sat across from his desk, reporter’s notebook in hand. Binders filled with years of budgets, proposals, plans and agendas still sat on the built-in shelves surrounding the room. There is something about sitting across from Vice President Administrative Services Robert Martinelli that inclines me to straighten my posture. This time the subject of my report was not about construction timelines or cafeteria contracts—my assignment was about him. After almost 14 years at City College, the master planner was set to retire.
The first question was a simple one: “What did you do before you came to City College?” Always prepared, Martinelli quietly slid me a two-page biography that highlighted a long and decorated Air Force career.
In June 2013, a vintage City College building, known to students as the Student Services and Administration of Justice building, was torn down and a construction project to create a new student services building began.
According to City College Vice President of Administrative Services Robert Martinelli, the new two-story building, which will include 16,000 square feet of usable space, doubles the space of the original building, and is on schedule to meet its February 2015 completion goal, partly thanks to California’s recent dry weather.
GOV. JERRY BROWN CAME to City College last October and pitched a long shot proposition to save California’s schools. In November voters approved Proposition 30, officially titled “Temporary Taxes to Fund Education,” providing a temporary financial fix for the state’s community colleges.
Thanks to the proposition’s passage, many community colleges restored course sections, but so far Los Rios Community College District campuses have not seen an increase. City College has actually reduced its sections by 3.85 percent this semester compared to last fall, according to data in a survey by the California State Community College Chancellor’s Office.
City College will not see any significant course sections added during the 2013–2014 year. The LRCCD utilized initial funding from the proposition for deferred payment, capital fund reimbursement and to stave off continued benefit reductions for staff and faculty, according to Robert Martinelli, vice president of administration.
New bids will be available to extend or replace existing contract with district
THIS FALL LOS RIOS Community College District extended its food service contract with Aramark for another year. The food service contract gives the company exclusive rights to all food service, including any catering or concessions on campus.
New bids will be available to extend or replace existing contract with district
Will Owenby
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THIS FALL LOS RIOS Community College District extended its food...
With the national rise in obesity, many people, including college students, have become concerned about what they eat.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “more than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7 percent) are obese” and “obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death.”
For many, it can be inconvenient to bring their food or leave campus to eat. Because of time constraints or lack of transportation, often times, this leaves one option: the City Cafe.
But how healthy is the food on campus, what steps are the college taking to ensure healthy options for those who want them and who decides what food is served?
The bids to construct the Curtis Park footbridge on the eastern border of City College are being submitted, and the components of the long-awaited Curtis Park Village are finally coming together a decade...
A PROJECT AS LARGE as the new Student Services building, located in a heavily trafficked area north of the Rodda Halls and main quad, could easily be expected to be plagued by problems: construction...
A new Student Services building is scheduled to become part of the City College campus by early 2015.
According to Vice President of Administrative Services Robert Martinelli, the $8.4 million construction...
The numbers were fresh in Robert Martinelli’s mind from recently briefing the City College budget committee. The vice president of Administration had been juggling seven-figure numbers from the California...
Light rail regulars know that the area around City College’s campus can be dangerous for pedestrians because of high-traffic levels and a lack of safe places to walk.
These students will be happy to learn that as part of the 72-acre Curtis Park Village project, the city has plans to link the Land Park area with the Curtis Park area by way of a bike path on
