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MEMORANDUM
DATE: October 19, 2000
TO: City Council
FROM: City Manager
SUBJECT: Dublin Unified School District/City of Dublin Liaison
Committee Meeting
Attached to this memorandum is the agenda for our recent Liaison Committee Meeting with the Dublin Unified School District.
At that meeting, Mr. John Ledahl presented his request for the Committee to consider discussing with their respective legislative bodies the development of a community-wide taskforce
to look at child and traffic safety in and around Dublin Unified Schools. He indicated that he had observed that parents disregarded traffic rules, especially in the vicinity of Wells
and Frederiksen Schools. The elected officials at the meeting indicated that rather than a taskforce, the Superintendent of Schools and the City Manager and their respective staffs
should work together to address issues at the various schools where there seem to be problems. Vice Mayor Lockhart also suggested that the School District may want to look at developing
a bus pass program with Wheels. Mr. Ledahl indicated that he may still go to the Council and the School Board to request that this issue be placed on future Council and Board agendas.
The School District clarified that Laurie Olander was the contact at the High School for community use of the High School.
Eddie Peabody discussed the status of the various annexation proposals that would be submitted to the City in the near future. The Superintendent mentioned that the School District
was revising its enrollment projections in order to determine whether or not school sites and locations were still adequate.
The School Superintendent asked if the City would be interested into looking into providing second language classes through the After School Recreation Program. It was agreed that the
Parks & Community Services Director would look into this with School District Staff.
The School District indicated that it would be interested in having the schools participate, to some extent, in the Eastern Dublin Banner Art Program.
A report was given on the status of the Technology Program. The School Superintendent reported that there were 1,200 computers on the network and the goal of one computer for every
three students should be reached by the end of the fiscal year. He also indicated that a contract is being evaluated with Las Positas to utilize advanced computer students for technical
support. The City Manager reported that a total of 304 computers, 5 printers and furniture for computers had been acquired during Fiscal Year 1999-2000, at a total cost of slightly
less than $300,000.
The Superintendent reported that the new Executive Director for DPIE, Anita Huster, is spending most of her time contacting businesses and planning the DPIE luncheon on October 26th.
Our Community Development Director discussed the status of our Housing Implementation Program and how it applied to the District’s interest in having the City consider giving preferential
treatment for teachers and other City workers for affordable housing.
The School District presented a conceptual design for the new middle school within the Dublin Ranch Development. The School District also indicated that they were contemplating leaving
a footprint within the middle school for a potential performing arts center. They indicated that they did not have any funding for this $4.5 million structure and wondered if the City
might be willing to investigate that in the future. City representatives indicated that they might be willing to investigate it and that one of the issues that would need to be looked
at besides funding would be the appropriateness of the location.
If you have any questions regarding this meeting, please let me know.
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