Schools
PHOTOS: Hillview, Eminent Domain Raised at Joint Meeting
The City Council and Los Altos School District have a frank exchange about eminent domain, and ideal school sites were either Hillview or somewhere in Mountain View, depending on who you were.
In the joint city-schools meeting in Los Altos Tuesday night, there were a few tense exchanges during the six-and-a-half hour session that covered traffic safety at Egan and Blach schools, prospects for a possible bond measure to build a new "10th campus," and possible sites for a 10th campus.
"I said before it would 'level the playing field,' and it has," said Mayor Val Carpenter, who presided over the joint meeting between the City Council and the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees to discuss issues that were almost entirely about how the district could provide facilities for the Bullis Charter School.
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"Everyone had the same information ...It moved us forward," she said, after the meeting ended at midnight.
The public, too, weighed in, asking the City Council to take an active role in helping craft a solution to the school district's need to provide bigger facilities for the charter school.
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By design, nothing was to be voted on. Mayor Carpenter suggested both bodies discuss a possible next meeting to discuss in greater detail what kind of collaboration might be explored in using city and schools land, including Hillview, Covington School, Rosita Park and Egan Jr. High School, for instance.
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