Issues

• It takes COD students four years to earn a two-year degree.
• For too many years, COD leadership has promised solutions, but the solutions never come.
• In both 2004 and 2016, Desert Community College District voters approved $947 million in bonds to build and improve COD campuses in the Coachella Valley.
• COD leaders promised a new Palm Springs campus would open in 2022.  This project has been abandoned.
• COD leaders promised the new Roadrunner Auto Tech School in Cathedral City.  This project has been cancelled.
• Needed Mecca campus improvements have been abandoned.
• COD’s focus and our resources to new plans for a Coachella campus – with no public input!

Who is to blame?

• New COD President Martha Garcia and the new leadership of the COD Board of Trustees have broken the promises made to Coachella Valley voters, taxpayers and students.
• COD leaders have thrown away up to $60 Million on these cancelled projects – with NO accountability.
• Coachella Valley students have lost essential education assets and opportunities.
• Community College District taxpayers continue paying to support these misused COD bonds.

What is the solution?

• Stop the COD Trustees and President Garcia from using COD as their political hostage.
• Demand accountability of our COD leaders.
• Make COD leaders reveal what they have done with the millions they have wasted and the millions they are shifting to pet projects to buy political power.
• Replace the COD Trustees and President Garcia with leaders who respect the needs of our students and the trust taxpayers have placed in COD.
• Restore COD as an essential educational asset in the Coachella Valley and our local economy.

Let your voice be heard!

Join Promises Made – Promises Broken, a coalition of Coachella Valley students and taxpayers fed up with the failures of COD leadership.