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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 /> 11 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 /> 920 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 />