Our community suffers when students and working families don't have bold leadership representing them, this is why Christon-Pope will fight for term limits to be put on all College Board members, to ensure that our leadership is always full of new ideas.

Organized Labor and Unions are the way we make the American workforce stronger, and that starts at AVC which is why Christon-Pope will always be an ally with AVC Unions to protect teachers' rights while holding our administration accountable.

While crime both on and off campus continues to surge, given Christon-Pope’s track record of keeping students safe, he will ensure to come up with restorative crime prevention strategies that keep Westside students safe on campus.

• Christon-Pope seeks to ensure Trustees aren’t self-evaluating and will limit closed session Board of Trustee meetings. . He will establish an integrity watchdog on campus to keep your College Board accountable to Westside students and Working Families.
  • Our students deserve great leadership that is accountable and transparent, Christon-Pope will fight for policies that ensure Board Members are accountable to the students and working families they represent.
  • The Brown Act is California’s Sunshine Law which states that when local government entities such as the AVC Board of Trustees, meet, they must conduct their meetings in a manner that is accessible to the public. This law is made to ensure that decisions are made with public input and thus public trust is had in the institutions that represent communities all across California. For far too long the Board of Trustees has used a loophole that allows for major items in the public interest to be discussed in private without community input. At the Board of Trustees, Christon-Pope will fight to ensure they’re Brown Act Compliant and will build trust between the Board of Trustees and the AV community.

• Under Giovanni’s agenda to promote an era of fiscal responsibility at AVC, he will ensure that an outside firm is hired to conduct an audit on all AVC spending, and new construction projects, this will eliminate all wasteful spending currently occurring. Commissioner Christon-Pope will ensure all pending lawsuits are settled to prevent the public from having to pay for AVC’s legal missteps.
  • Westside students and working families need to be able to trust that their representatives respect their hard-earned taxpayer dollars, Christon-Pope will see to it that money is distributed accordingly that is within the best interests of our students and staff.

• The current Board of Trustees has failed to meet the needs of students for too long. Christon-Pope will bring back intersession classes and increase the number of virtual classes; as Commissioner Christon-Pope understands education is the pathway for students to succeed in life and will ensure students have the proper support and resources to ensure their success.  
  • To ensure education is equitable for all Christon-Pope will fight to roll back the board policy that canceled intersession classes, and commit to increasing the number of virtual courses available to students.

Christon-Pope knows educators are the backbone of our society and therefore will respect and incentivize the work of teachers by working to provide benefits such as increased salaries and mileage reimbursements.