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1 The Mayor said he thought the Council owed it to its constituency to <br />2 listen to what the school offers, but at the same time also has the <br />3 responsibility of examining other options for housing the City's <br />4 services. <br />5 Judith Petrie, 3505 - 36th Avenue N.E. <br />6 *thanked the Council for letting them give their viewpoint on the <br />7 issue; <br />8 *admitted most of those present that evening had failed to try to <br />9 personally get in touch with Councilmembers; <br />10 *said they had found they had to dig out any information they <br />it got from the School Board; <br />12 *thought the School Board should have been "exhilarated" to see <br />13 all the young couples who showed up at the hearing and spoke so <br />14 passionately about the programs offered at Parkview; <br />15 *said many of them had indicated they had bought their homes in <br />16 St. Anthony because of these programs; <br />17 *thought the school district would be better off keeping control <br />18 of Parkview so they could continue to offer the programs to many <br />19 of the young people who were at the hearing who are renters but <br />20 who the school should have an invested interest in keeping in <br />21 the district; <br />22 *said she had found out that the school could legally only lease <br />23 to two affiliated school businesses but the City could rent to a <br />24 whole gamut of businesses from which it could probably get more <br />25 money than from a public agency; <br />26 *was concerned that, although the current City Council had <br />27 indicated it intended to uphold the Comprehensive Plan, a <br />28 different Council in five years might not underline its <br />29 importance; <br />30 *told the Councilmembers there's no place else for the early <br />31 childhood program to go because Wilshire is filled; it would <br />32 cost $277,000 to convert the empty room in the high school for <br />33 the program which was not acceptable; <br />34 *debated the assumption that there would never again be enough <br />35 students to fill the high school; <br />36 *agreed with the Mayor that persons like herself should be <br />37 dealing with the School Board; <br />38 *concluded by saying that was what they were doing and the Board <br />39 members "weren't too happy with them" as a result. <br />15 <br />