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MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by O'Malley, seconded by Mordo and <br /> passed unanimously to adopt Resolution # 34-06 "In Support of the Santa Clara County <br /> Initiative for the Conservation and Preservation of Hillsides, Ranchlands and Agricultural <br /> Lands" <br /> 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS <br /> 5.1 Town Goals <br /> 5.1.1 Implementation of Strategic Conservation Goals <br /> Considered as agenda items 11.1 and 11.2. <br /> 5.1.2 Bringing Public Education Back to the Hills <br /> The agenda was reordered by consensus of the Council to permit discussion of this item <br /> out of agenda order. <br /> 5.1.2a Status Report on the Re-Districting Alternative Negotiations- <br /> Mayor Kerr and Councilmember Jones <br /> Mayor Kerr introduced this item to Council. He reviewed the informational packet of <br /> materials that had been provided to Council by the Ad Hoc Council Subcommittee of <br /> • Kerr and Councilmember Jones. The Mayor summarized the recent negotiation meetings <br /> and the effort to achieve an alternative to redistricting. Kerr advised Council of an email <br /> he had received from Palo Alto Unified School District representatives expressing their <br /> regret that they would be unable to attend the City Council meeting due to a previous <br /> commitment to appear in Sacramento. They expressed their support for the negotiations <br /> and explained that their absence should in no way reflect adversely on their commitment <br /> to the proposal. <br /> Kerr provided an overview of the negotiation process. All stakeholders had been <br /> included in the negotiations. This included Superintendents from the Palo Alto Unified <br /> School District, Los Altos School District, Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School <br /> District and the Bullis Charter School. Meeting participants also included District and <br /> Charter School Board members, Councilmember Jones, Mayor Kerr and Duncan <br /> MacMillan, Public Education Committee Chair. <br /> Kerr reviewed his letter to Superintendent Callan, Palo Alto Unified School District dated <br /> March 29, 2006 and identified key points of the solution that the Ad-Hoc Committee was <br /> seeking to achieve. They included: 1) a change in the relationship between the LASD,the <br /> Town of Los Altos Hills and the Bullis Charter School; 2) a true neighborhood public <br /> school for the Los Altos Hills community at the former Bullis-Purissima School campus <br /> with routing and predictable provisions for attendance by willing Los Altos Hills children <br /> from LASD and PAUSD; and, 3) provisions to insure relative permanency of the solution <br /> • including guarantees of at least one (1) public school within the boundaries of the <br /> community. <br /> 6 <br /> City Council Meeting Minutes <br /> April 27,2006 <br />