Los Angeles Private Industry Council

Mission College is slated to receive more than $100,000 in July to expand a training program aimed at increasing the number of skilled workers in several northeast San Fernando Valley communities. Kay Inaba, an adviser for the college's Quality Workforce Development Training Program, said the funding will allow the six-month-old program to train an additional 25 students. Students learn entry-level office skills, such as typing, filing and word processing, during the yearlong program.

The Los Angeles Private Industry Council board of directors met in a special closed session Thursday without deciding the fate of its embattled president, Dominick J. Ramos. Although a performance evaluation of Ramos was listed as the first agenda item, the board spent 3 1/2 hours discussing two other personnel issues involving Vice President Arthur P. Lawson.

Los Angeles city officials are investigating allegations of fraud in a poverty program headed by a former Bradley Administration appointee and housed in a building that was renovated with city funds while secretly owned by Bishop H. H. Brookins, The Times has learned. The inquiry focuses on Bi-Plex Corp., a now-defunct firm that received millions of dollars in city and county job training grants.

Faced with a choice of quitting his job or being forced out, Dominick J. Ramos submitted his resignation on Monday as president of the Los Angeles Private Industry Council. Last week, the Private Industry Council (PIC) board of directors voted overwhelmingly to give Ramos, who has been under fire for a variety of allegations, until Monday to resign, effective April 30. Mayor Tom Bradley issued a press release saying he had accepted Ramos' resignation and declined to comment further.

In an apparent vote of confidence, directors of the Los Angeles Private Industry Council said Monday that allegations against the agency's embattled president "have been exaggerated and are in many cases unfounded." That assessment came in a prepared statement released after a closed-door meeting to consider reports that PIC President Dominick J.

The Los Angeles Private Industry Council has approved spending government funds to grant a 4% salary increase to its embattled president, Dominick J. Ramos--after citing poor performance and persuading him last November to resign. Scheduled to leave his $73,627-a-year job late next month, Ramos has also traveled to Washington at public expense to try to restore his reputation, also with board approval. The troubled job-training agency has been paralyzed since Jan.

The Los Angeles Private Industry Council each year steers millions of dollars in federal funds to organizations that are run by community leaders who also sit on the council's Board of Directors, city records show. In the current fiscal year and last year, six agencies that employ PIC board members have received a total of $10.5 million in job training grants, according to the agency's contracts.

After 14 hours of closed-door meetings, directors of the Los Angeles City Private Industry Council have asked their embattled president, Dominick J. Ramos, to resign next April, according to several PIC sources who asked not to be identified. Board members voted overwhelmingly Monday against firing Ramos based on allegations that he mishandled government funds and made numerous false claims on his resume, the sources said.

Dominick J. Ramos, the beleaguered president of the Los Angeles Private Industry Council, made numerous false claims to embellish his career achievements in 1984 when he was hired by the city agency after a nationwide executive search, The Times has learned.

Following through on his pledge to revamp the troubled Private Industry Council, Mayor Tom Bradley on Friday appointed 18 new members to the job training agency's board of directors. Although Bradley said in January that he wanted to recruit chief executive officers of Los Angeles corporations, only four of the new directors are presidents of small firms.

The Los Angeles Private Industry Council has approved spending government funds to grant a 4% salary increase to its embattled president, Dominick J. Ramos--after citing poor performance and persuading him last November to resign. Scheduled to leave his $73,627-a-year job late next month, Ramos has also traveled to Washington at public expense to try to restore his reputation, also with board approval. The troubled job-training agency has been paralyzed since Jan.

In a stern warning to the Private Industry Council, Mayor Tom Bradley said he does not support a plan to fire a whistle-blower who filed a series of allegations against the president of the troubled job training agency, it was learned. Bradley, in a letter mailed Thursday to the board of directors, said he believed that any discipline against Private Industry Council Vice President Arthur P. Lawson would be considered "retaliatory," according to sources who disclosed the text of the letter.

The "questionable use" of federal job training funds by the Private Industry Council has prompted the state Senate Committee on Industrial Relations to schedule a special oversight hearing in Los Angeles, Sen. Bill Greene (D-Los Angeles) said Wednesday. Greene, who is chairman of the committee, said he intends to question city officials and Private Industry Council representatives about reports in The Times that federal job training funds were mishandled.

Mayor Tom Bradley said Tuesday he will dismiss most members of the board that oversees the troubled Private Industry Council and replace them with top business executives, signaling the virtual demise of the federally funded job training agency. Acting after a series of scandals were publicized, Bradley said he also will seek to strip the council of its $1.1-million budget, forcing the agency to close its office and lay off its dozen staff members, City Hall sources said.

Faced with a choice of quitting his job or being forced out, Dominick J. Ramos submitted his resignation on Monday as president of the Los Angeles Private Industry Council. Last week, the Private Industry Council (PIC) board of directors voted overwhelmingly to give Ramos, who has been under fire for a variety of allegations, until Monday to resign, effective April 30. Mayor Tom Bradley issued a press release saying he had accepted Ramos' resignation and declined to comment further.

The president of the Los Angeles Private Industry Council is under fire for allegedly mishandling a $160,000 marketing contract with a public relations firm, soliciting political campaign contributions from his employees and using government dollars to purchase a new 1986 Lincoln Continental, The Times has learned. Dominick J.

The telephones rang off the hook at the Los Angeles City Private Industry Council (PIC) last summer when radio and TV ads featuring Mayor Tom Bradley and celebrity Ed McMahon urged the business community and the unemployed to participate in the federal Job Training Partnership Act. The PIC's $160,000 marketing campaign was finally starting to pay dividends, after being pulled off the air months earlier by radio stations that had been owed $22,445 in advertising fees.

After 14 hours of closed-door meetings, directors of the Los Angeles City Private Industry Council have asked their embattled president, Dominick J. Ramos, to resign next April, according to several PIC sources who asked not to be identified. Board members voted overwhelmingly Monday against firing Ramos based on allegations that he mishandled government funds and made numerous false claims on his resume, the sources said.

The telephones rang off the hook at the Los Angeles City Private Industry Council (PIC) last summer when radio and TV ads featuring Mayor Tom Bradley and celebrity Ed McMahon urged the business community and the unemployed to participate in the federal Job Training Partnership Act. The PIC's $160,000 marketing campaign was finally starting to pay dividends, after being pulled off the air months earlier by radio stations that had been owed $22,445 in advertising fees.