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Additional duties would include attendance and reporting of the Districts Board p g meetings. 4) The exploration of territory transfers. Jones noted that he was not seeking Council action on this recommendation at tonight's Council meeting. Hesuggested that the Council wait until the negotiating team had an opportunity to continue their dialogue with the Districts and evaluate what future actions were taken by the Districts to implement the verbal promises that had been made. Jones explained that the option of territory transfers would not have the numerous obstacles that confronted district reorganization. He suggested that if the Council did move forward with exploration of the option in the future, the first logical step would be a survey of the Los Altos Hills residents in LASD as to their interest in being part of PAUSD. Jones added that this was a potential long term solution to the education issue and there was no urgency associated with the recommendation. He suggested it would be appropriate to revisit the suggestion after the attendance boundaries were fmalized by the LASD in June. MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Mordo, seconded by Jones and passed unanimously to disband the Ad Hoc Committee on District Reorganization. Council concurred with the recommendation to establish a new Education Standing Committee chartered with monitoring education issues in Town. OPENED PUBLIC COMMENT Jill Jensen, resident, expressed her concern that the proposed plan for Bullis school did not include the Bullis Charter School. She offered that the school had provided an excellent educational opportunity for residents and she wanted assurance that they were treated fairly. Jensen questioned the projected enrollment for Bullis and wondered what the future plans were for the extended Kindergarten. She believed that the district would move slowly to establish a true K-6 at the campus. Jones concurred with her concern about housing the all day Kindergarten permanently at the site given the tight constraints of the resource and the inability to accommodate the additional grades with the program. He noted that he was not aware of a calendar for the District's decision on the program. Duncan MacMillan, Natoma Road, urged the Council to adopt the "Go Plan" as the platform/framework for the negotiating team. The document's wording had been authored by people on both sides of the education issues and advocated that the parties think beyond Bullis for a long term solution. Kathy Evans, La Loma Drive, concurred with Council's decision to disband the AHCDR and supported the creation of a new Public Education Standing Committee that would be tasked with attending School District meetings and keeping the City Council informed. Evans urged the City Council to investigate the details of the re-opening of the Bullis school. The proposal had been amended and cut back and she was concerned that the 6 City Council Meeting Minutes February 8,2007