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• to allow for the geographic preference. The request for a waiver would be filed by the Santa Clara County Office of Education and if approved, granted by the State. Jones offered that this procedure had been investigated and reviewed the process with Council. LASD and PAUSD would support the State Board of Education waiver for preference. He hoped that the regional solution to the problem would assist in having the State approve the waiver. Jones reviewed the funding that BCS would receive from the Palo Alto Unified School District for PAUSD-Los Altos Hills children who attended the Bullis Charter School when the Los Altos School District was designated as a Basic Aid District. He qualified this by noting the PAUSD had stated their funding commitment publicly and it had been ratified by the Districts Board for providing the same amount of money as basic aid to basic aid inter-district transfer students ($5,000). 4) New playing fields and Community center for Los Altos Hills at the Bullis site. Jones noted that the LASD would begin renovations at the site in 2006 and have proposed to raise it to the quality of other LASD elementary schools. The LASD Board has voted to refinance their earlier bond to take advantage of lower interest rates. The Board has committed to spend approximately $10 million on facility improvements at the Bullis site. This is a phase one project. The District is seeking voter approval of a second bond measure for facility improvements that would include the Bullis site. Jones reviewed the proposal of Kerr and Jones for the Town to • provide funding to enhance the Bullis site with recreation facilities, infrastructure and solar panels. This participation would help to achieve the Council's goal for additional recreational facilities (playing fields) in Town. The estimated cost of the Town's participation was $500,000 for playing fields; energy efficiency $250,000 and $190,000 for infrastructure improvements. Also included in the renovation proposal was the approval of funding of the construction of new buildings on the Bullis site by the Bullis Foundation. 5) Bullis Charter School would receive support for a smooth transition. Currently, BCS is chartered by the Santa Clara County Office of Education. The "framework" plan called for the charter to be transferred to a LASD charter within five years of their rechartering as permitted by law. Sharing of the parcel-tax was an integral component of the remaining item (6) and the success of the solution. The Bullis site would be shared and access to the shared facilities would be managed by the BCS Superintendent and LASD Superintendent on an equitable manner. In addition, the Los Altos School District prior to January 2007, would provide additional portables for the Bullis Charter School at Egan, to support growth and the current educational programs. LASD would also provide access to the Egan multipurpose room on an as-needed and as- available basis to the BCS. • 8 City Council Meeting Minutes Apri127,2006