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1 *these persons wanted to know how much interest there was on the 2 Council to involve the City in a joint City/School District #282 3 Community Services management; 4 *some of the incidents involving the use of the Wilshire Park School 5 had reduced the level of trust between the parents and the School 6 Board; 7 *she found the differences in figures quoted by the City and School 8 District officials to be very confusing. 9 The resident was told: 10 *the predecessor to the Community Services, which was known as the 11 Parks and Recreation Department, had been under the auspices of the 12 City until those programs were expanded to include educational 13 classes and the school decided to take over the programs; 14 *some of the candidates for the School Board appeared to be under 15 the mistaken impression that Community Services Daycare programs 16 were paid for by the state when, except for programs paid for by 17 special grants, they are all paid for by St. Anthony taxpayers and 18 with users fees; 19 *the Early Childhood program had been one for which Tom McMullen, who 20 was especially good at that sort of thing, had gotten a grant which 21 is no longer available, leaving a program no one wants dropped; 22 *there is a perception that the reason the City's child care costs 23 are so much lower than similar programs in other locations is 24 because the school is subsidizing those costs for both resident and 25 non-resident users; 26 *the Council had agreed to initiate discussions of a joint City/ 27 School Community Services which the School Board had proposed. 28 Mr. Childs indicated he perceived there had to be a distinction made 29 between community education and what's commonly thought of as parks 30 and recreation programs. He said the City is qualified to run the 31 latter because that involves cutting grass, taking care of the ball 32 diamonds and things of that sort which the City employees normally do, 33 but the City is not qualified to run educational programs. The 34 Manager said it was his understanding that the day care programs had 35 started as a part of the continuum in education philosophy that 36 education should be an ongoing process where everybody would be 37 involved in the school system from infancy through the years after 38 retirement. Cities have traditionally resisted involvement in 39 educational programs although St. Anthony had perceived supporting 40 the Chemical Abuse Information Committee and Youth Service Bureau 41 might be somewhat tied in with the services offered by the Police 42 Department. 15