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• 6. NEW BUSINESS 6.1 Consideration of Council Representative as Votinq Delegate for a Special Meeting of the League of California Cities General Assembly MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Motion by O'Malley, seconded by Kerr and passed unanimously to designate City Manager Maureen Cassingham as Los Altos Hills' voting delegate for the May 15 Special Meeting. 6.2 Consideration of Proposed Resolution: Public Education in Los Altos Hills and Bullis Charter School Craig Jones, 27297 Byrne Park Lane,thanked the Council for its earlier support and noted that the Bullis School is scheduled to close as of June 2003. Many residents from Los Altos Hills got together to form the Bullis Charter School and submitted a petition to the Los Altos School District asking for approval of the charter petition. Jones noted that Los Altos Hills was the only town with no public school and a charter school would be an asset to the school, a way for neighbors to get to know each other, and a way for parents to be involved in the education of their children. He explained that the goals of the charter school are to meet the children's needs and provide a wholesome community experience, focused on the Los Altos Hills area. The only opposition to the idea of the charter school has to do with fiscal impact. Jones asked the Council to declare its support for public education,to declare that the charter school was a good mechanism for keeping public education in Los Altos Hills,to plead with the Los Altos School District Site Advisory Committee to give public school the highest priority for the former Bullis-Purissima site, and to declare that the Bullis public school would be a great asset to the community. Dick Hasenpflug, 279 Jardin Drive, spoke on behalf of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Finance (CACF) for the Los Altos School District, and addressed financial implications of a charter school. He mentioned three problems created by a charter school: (1) loss of rental revenue from the Bullis site; (2) loss of State funding for students in the district who attend the charter school; and (3) once the Los Altos School District becomes basic aid,the $4,500 per student that the charter school got, no longer came from the state. Mayor Fenwick asked what affect the Council's approval of the proposed resolution has on the District. Mr. Hasenpflug responded he was told that if the District did not agree with what the charter school proposed, the Los Altos Hills City Council will block any efforts to lease the charter school out to a third party. Mr. Jones said the Council had no say in the matter of the District's approval or disapproval of the Charter. • Commissioner Kerr asked whether it was fair to say, from a financial point of view,the alternative is to turn Bullis into a private school because that would pay rental income. 4 City Council Meeting Agenda April 17,2003