HomeMy WebLinkAboutMarch 26Final
–
approved
4/23/15
Education
Committee
Special
Meeting
March
26,
2015
1. Roll
Call
Meeting
was
called
to
order
at
7:05pm
by
the
Chair,
Ms.
Rose.
Present
were
committee
members
Jennifer
Carlstrom,
Duncan
MacMillan,
Heather
Rose
and
Karen
Schuster.
Steve
Hubble
was
present
as
a
guest.
Council
liaison
was
not
present.
2. Enrollment
Report
with
Steve
Hubble
Why
Town
Needs
the
Enrollment
Report
• Insurance
to
keep
a
public
school
open
in
town
that
all
residents
of
LAH
can
attend.
• In
2006,
all
the
public
schools
within
the
city
limits
of
LAH
were
closed.
The
Town
had
enrollment
data,
so
the
County
granted
the
Town
a
meeting
to
discuss
the
issue
of
having
no
public
schools
located
within
the
Town
borders
and
having
public
school
students
split
between
school
districts
(LASD/BCS/MVLA
&
PAUSD).
As
a
result
of
these
meetings,
the
County
got
LASD
and
PAUSD
to
agree
to
the
current
MOU
that
allows
PAUSD
students
to
attend
a
common
“in
town”
school
as
a
7-‐year
transfer.
The
MOU
transfers
operating
funds
from
PAUSD
to
LASD
for
these
students.
In
2006,
the
LAH
application
to
create
a
school
district
was
denied.
The
County
needed
LAH
to
demonstrate
that
students
were
at
a
disadvantage
with
not
having
a
LAH
public
school
district.
• Today,
the
data
could
be
used
for
routes
to
school
planning
by
studying
numbers
of
students
by
tax
district
area.
The
report
could
be
used
to
renegotiate
MOU
payments
between
PAUSD
and
LASD.
The
report
could
be
used
to
negotiate
a
new
MOU
between
BCS
and
LASD
for
payments
above
LCFF
levels.
Enrollment
Report
Process
• The
letter
sent
to
Superintendents
constitutes
a
non-‐disclosure
agreement.
No
personal
information
is
reported.
No
student
names
have
ever
been
requested,
nor
disclosed.
• Steve
Hubble
checks
address
information
provided
by
school
districts
against
the
most
recent
tax
assessor
data.
Each
year,
he
finds
60-‐70
addresses
do
not
match
county
assessor
records.
He
corrects
the
minor
issues
such
as
street
name
misspellings
“Avenue,
Lane,
Road,
Court,
etc.”
After
those
corrections,
he
finds
about
10%
of
the
addresses
submitted
are
not
within
the
city
limits
of
LAH.
Also,
Steve
calculates
the
total
amount
of
public
money
provided
by
all
properties
in
LAH
to
school
districts
by
adding
up
property
and
parcel
taxes
with
bond
revenues
and
how
much
goes
to
each
K-‐12
school
district.
Final
–
approved
4/23/15
• The
process
Steve
goes
through
is
rigorous
and
constitutes
an
“audit”
to
verify
the
number
of
LAH
residents
in
public
schools
by
tax
district,
school,
and
grade
level.
This
is
high
quality
data
for
the
Town
to
use.
BCS
History
of
Participation
• In
2007-‐8,
2008-‐9,
2009-‐10,
BCS
reported
Enrollment
Data
as
the
other
school
districts.
• BCS
did
not
respond
to
the
October
4,
2011
letter
with
their
2011-‐12
data.
And,
has
not
responded
since.
3. Part
of
Education
Committee
Charter
Our
charter
states
we
will
keep
records
of
students
from
Los
Altos
Hills
on
which
schools
they
attend.
4. Discussion
Points
• Does
the
Mayor
need
to
recuse
herself
from
the
enrollment
report
because
her
children
attend
BCS?
We
may
need
to
ask
the
opinion
of
the
city
attorney.
• Why
do
we
need
the
Tax
Rate
Area
(TRA)?
The
TRA
provides
gross
geographic
information.
This
information
allows
the
committee
to
audit
that
the
students
are
in
town
of
Los
Altos
Hills
vs.
Unincorporated
or
Palo
Alto.
The
TRA
information
allows
us
to
find
out
what
the
tax
rate
is
and
therefore
find
out
how
much
money
is
going
with
the
student
to
the
school
from
LAH.
• It
is
preferable
to
have
address
information
so
that
we
can
provide
the
council
with
accurate
information
in
order
to
keep
a
neighborhood
school
in
town
available.
5. Motion:
That
the
City
Council
instruct
the
City
Attorney
take
the
following
actions,
things
in
parallel:
1.
Write
and
send
a
letter
to
Bullis
Charter
School
again
requesting
enrollment
data
as
provided
in
the
letter
dated
September
25,
2014;
2.
Render
a
legal
opinion
supporting
this
request,
should
further
action
be
required.
D
MacMillan
moved
to
approve
the
motion.
Duly
seconded.
Motion
Carries
unanimously.
6. Motion
to
make
Steve
Hubble
an
associate
member
of
the
Los
Altos
Hills
Education
Committee.
Jennifer
Carlstom
moved
to
approve
the
motion.
Duly
seconded.
Motion
Carries
unanimously.
There
being
no
further
business
the
meeting
was
adjourned
at
8:40pm