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CITY COUNCIL MINUTES - March 3, 197G SPECIAL REPORTS (Cont'd): progress to date of the Committee, stating that it had been formed as a result of parent concern after notification at the beginning of this school year that bus service would no longer be provided for children within the District. Mrs. Balkenhol stated that the Committee would like to find long- term solutions to the problems of safety for the school children. Mrs. Balkenhol noted that the Committee had prepared a questionaire for school children in grades 4-6 which should be completed in April, asking for their comments on problems they were encountering on bikes, or along paths. This would include chuck holes in roads, over -grown paths, dogs, etc., which the Committee could use to pinpoint problem areas and then attempt to solve them. She also noted that the Committee would work toward bicycle safety in the schools, and they were looking at public bus routes with the County in an effort to determine how public busses could be utilized. She stated that her Committee would like to work with the Town, since the Staff might have better ideas of handling some of the problems than the Committee. She requested direction from Council as to how the Committee could best work with the Town. After questions relating to the Committee and their efforts to date by Council Members, Councilman McReynolds thought the charges of the Committee e were parallel to those of the Town's Traffic & Public Safety Committee. v Mayor Grabowski suggested it might be in order for Council to assign three members of the School District's Committee to the Traffic & Public Safety Committee as Advisors who could work together toward the safety of school children. He suggested the possibility of Staff's negotiating with bus companies and charging the parents of children who rode the bus chartered for the purpose of bussing children to school. ,After further discussion, Council concensus was to name three members of the School District's Committee as .Advisors to the Traffic & Public Safety Committee, and Mayor Pro Tem Helgesson requested that City Manager Robert Crowe advise each Committee of the meeting dates, and the names of the Committee Members. Mrs. Balkenhol said she would confirm the names of her Committee's members and inform Mr. Crowe. Mrs. Goldsmith, Chairman, Traffic and Public Safety Committee, stated that she and her Committee would enjoy working with the School District, as they had with others. 4. Presentations from the Floor: a) Dr. Harold Schick, Heston Road: Addressing his comments to Mayor Grabowski, Dr. Schick, cited the efforts of the Mayor on behalf of the Town during his term of office, among which were included the questioning of assessment practices of the County Assessor's office as they related to the Town, and efforts to relieve the burden of financing environmental services to Foothill College through appropriate legislation. Dr. Schick presented the Mayor with a silver tray as a token of esteem from some of his friends. -3-