The top Los Angeles community college official leaned toward a colleague’s face like a U.S. Marine drill sergeant, then allegedly unleashed a stream of verbal abuse.

The alleged tirade by Los Angeles Community College District President Scott J. Svonkin against Trustee Andra Hoffman during a board meeting last month has prompted a proposed sanction measure that will be heard Wednesday by the district board.

Svonkin has issued a sweeping denial of the allegations.

• DOCUMENT: LACCD board Trustee Andra Hoffman’s motion for sanction of board President Scott Svonkin

• DOCUMENT: LACCD board President Scott Svonkin’s response to Trustee Hoffman’s motion

Hoffman’s resolution for a motion of sanction accuses Svonkin of engaging in a pattern of verbal threats and written harassment since she was elected to the Board of Trustees two years ago. After the June 7 meeting where the alleged incident occurred, she said a sheriff’s deputy offered to walk her to her car.

“Trustee Svonkin has violated our ethical code of conduct by exhibiting two years worth of threats, intimidation and verbal threats and abuse,” Hoffman told the Daily News. “I want to bring respect and decorum to this board, and to other women in this district.

“What happened last month crossed the line. I was intimidated, scared and I felt threatened. Bringing a motion to sanction sends a message: that this behavior will no longer be tolerated.”

The motion of sanction initiation, the first ever to be filed within the nation’s largest community college district, will require four of seven votes to move forward.

If the resolution passes, the motion of sanction would be considered at the next board meeting. It would then require five votes to either reprimand or censure the three-term president, an LACCD attorney said. It’s not clear what the consequences would be for either sanction.

“This has never happened before,” said Interim LACCD General Counsel Kevin D. Jeter. “The accreditation commission requires this policy — and a mechanism to address a breach (in behavior). This is all uncharted territory. I don’t know what it means.”

The trustees were already scheduled today to elect a new president of the community college board to replace Svonkin, who was elected to the board in 2011 and the first president since the district was founded 48 years ago to serve three consecutive one-year terms.

Svonkin, who recently stepped down as chief of public affairs and government relations for Los Angeles County Assessor Jeffrey Prang, is now running for a seat on the California Board of Equalization.

In a written rebuttal to accompany Hoffman’s motion, he vigorously denied the allegations.

“This is nothing short of a negative and politically charged smear attack,” Svonkin wrote, “the likes of which reminds me of what we see from Donald Trump on a near daily basis.

“We, here at this body, the governing institution for the most dynamic and respected community college district in the nation, can, should and ought to do better.”

Svonkin did not return a phone call requesting comment. He said in an email Tuesday that he was tied up all day in meetings.

The Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees oversees nine campuses of 240,000 college students, staff and faculty that costs more than $1 billion each year to run. It also watches over a $9.6 billion campus bond building program.

Over the years, its low-profile governing board has served as a springboard to higher office.

Former trustees include Gov. Jerry Brown, former L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich and various state lawmakers such as Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, elected three years ago.

Each trustee must now adhere to a district ethical code of conduct, Hoffman said, which she alleges Svonkin broke in “a pattern of harassment” in voicemails and text messages she says she has turned in as evidence to support her sanction motion.

She also pointed to two incidents in her sanction motion resolution that attest to the alleged verbal abuse.

During a closed session board meeting on March 8, her resolution said, Svonkin “yelled at me in a threatening manner claiming I was staring at him and if I did not stop I would be dismissed from the room.”

But it was following comments Hoffman made at a June 7 board meeting to oppose Svonkin being named “president emeritus” after his unprecedented three back-to-back terms that his anger got especially ugly during the break, she said.

In her resolution to sanction, she said the board president stood over her, put his face close to hers, and shook his finger saying she’d made the “biggest mistake of her political career” — adding that she’d “never be elected to political office again.”

The tongue lashing was so severe she said LACCD Chancellor Francisco Rodriguez walked over, put his hands on Svonkin’s shoulders, and reminded him that “we were in public,” and asked that he “cease his behavior,” Hoffman’s resolution said.

“As I got up from my chair on the dais, Scott appeared right in front of my face — less than 5 inches — blocking me in, wagging his finger, ticking his head, and raising his voice,” Hoffman, who works as an administrator and teacher at Glendale Community College, told the Daily News.

The lead attorney for the L.A. college district, however, said he never witnessed a confrontation.

“I sat in the front row and saw absolutely nothing,” Jeter said. “I didn’t see a thing.”

While former Trustee Mona Field didn’t witness it, she said she saw numerous examples of Svonkin bullying district employees and others in the four years she served alongside him.

“What’s really horrific is the verbal abuse,” said Field, who served on the college board from 1999 through 2015. “He created more negativity in the district than anything I’ve ever seen.

“I have many recollections of him publicly embarrassing and rebuking our employees and students, and even outside experts. A bully has got to be stopped. Someone has to call him out. It’s happened to too many people … I’m all for (the sanction).”

Svonkin, for his part, did not directly address each allegation of abuse. But he said in his response that everyone on the district board has their differences. He also said that history shows that “competing conversations” deliver the very best public policy and legislation.

He said he is vigorously fighting corruption, including politicians he claims work in the shadows to “advance the interests of corrupt entities that exploit and price [gouge] taxpayers and students.”

“These are the reasons why I simply won’t stand for this deceitful and malicious political retribution by my colleague,” Svonkin said.