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1.5 Community School Center A community school center, according to the Educational Facilities Laboratories report Community School Centers, has the responsibility of bringing together the "mix of services needed by the community" and providing coordination of those services. A center may include K -12 education, day care, senior citizen programs, job placement services, vocational and manpower training, a public library, adult education, performing and creative arts, family and youth counseling, and municipal services. Community centers vary in their organization and operations. Of sites visited, Eisenhower Community Center, Hopkins, MN; Westonka Community Center, Mound, MN, and Edina Community Center, Edina, MN, illustrate the community center concept. Westonka and Edina Community Centers both offer community education programs, various types of counseling services, and lease to theater, dance and produc- tion groups. Unlike a typical community school center, Westonka also leases to the business sector (Appendix D). The Center, developed largely through the cooperative efforts of school and community persons, tends to attract tenants that complement existing services. For example, a wholesale supplier of day care products joined the center after two other large day care operations were in place. Westonka uses a rental charge formula (Appendix E) that may serve as a guide for developing a leasing /rental formula. Edina has implemented complex, multi -use schedules for leasing spaces which benefits lessees (shared costs) and the center (increased rental income). For example, on a given day several rooms were scheduled as follows: Room 303 Room 203 8:30 -10:40 a.m. 10:50-11:50 a.m. 12:00 -1:00 p.m. 4:45 -6:45 p.m. - 6:45 -7:45 p.m. - - Aerobics - Slimnastics - Jazz Exercise Aerobics Slimnastics 9:30 -noon - Lutheran High School 12:30 -3:00 p.m. - Advanced Bridge 7:00 -8:30 p.m. - Explorer Past Auditorium 10:00 -11:00 a.m. 3:00 -6:00 p.m. 6:00 -10:00 p.m. Tap I Junior High Acting Park & Recreation Awards The Center operates Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. to midnight. Saturday and Sunday, 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Refer to Appendix F for the Community Center building directory. 1.6 Inter - Agency Agreement Inter- agency agreements between city and school officials should be in writing, reported Lathen and Canutillo in a 1982 American School Board Journal, and "should spell out the conditions for community use of school facilities and for school use of municipal facilities." St. Louis Park agreement with use though its School District, St. Louis Park, MN, through a joint powers the City of St. Louis Park exemplifies this type of alternative Lennox Community Center. The Center is governed by a Joint 51 6