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PUBLIC HEARINGS There were no public hearing scheduled £or this meeting~ MATTERS CONTINUED FOR DECISION Request by Murray School District to annex certain property. West of Foothill Road to the.City for the developm.~nt of...a' SchOOl site Mr. Edgar presented the staff report regarding this item stating that the matter had been discussed at a study session between the City Council and Murray School District Board of Trustees on September 17, 1973. Councilman Reid asked if the overpass ramp for pedestrian. crossing was a part of the project and who pays for It. Dr~l Willjams seated he could not answer that, the School District would file. an application with the State but they did not very often pay for this kind of crossing. Mr. J. J. Comerford, 7886 Oakcreek Drive, stated that the residents in the area were concerned about the safety factor of the children, as evidenced by the petitions circulated at two different ~imes~ Mr. Ted Bogardus, 4491 Sandalwood Drive, addressed the Council stating that a school on Foothill Road would be a detriment to the environment, that school children would probably ignore safety fences and cross on busy Foothill Road, and that a more suitable location should be selected by the City Council, Murray School District and the developer. Mrs. Sharon Turner, 3838 Yosemite Court North, representing Donlot Parent- Faculty Club Board, read a statement from that Board as follows: "The Donlot Parent-Faculty Club, which represents the parents of Donlon's 1200 students, supports the Murray School District Board cf Trustees in the site selection on Foothill Road for the construction of a new intermediate school. The Donlon Parent-Faculty Club further wishes the school district to proceed as soon as possible with the construction of the school on the Foothill site. This resolu- tion was passed by unanimous vote at the Donlot Parent-Faculty Club Board meeting held at Donion School on Tuesday, September 25, 1973~" Mrs. Turner also presented the City Council with a petition, signed by 148 residents in the area, which reads as follows: "We the undersigned parents of , students at Donlon School, wish to express our deep concern at the possible delay in the construction of a new intermediate school at the Foothill Road site selected by the Murray School District Board of Trustees. Our intermediate school students have a great need for the facilities to be offered at the new school on the Foot- hill site. We support the concern of the Board of Trustees that further delay will deny yet another class of students the use of these facilities°" Mrs. Turner stated the residents strongly feel that Murray School District mok a responsible stand, and urged the City Council to support it. Mr. Pike Peel, 7898 Oakcreek Drive, expressed his opposition to annexation of this property for proposed school site because of the safety factor for children having to cross Foothill Road and in light of the City Council's recently adopted growth restriction policy regarding annexation. Mrs. Nancy O'Connell, 7647 Driftwood, former teacher in Palo Alto, expressed concern regarding the dangerous proposed location of the school and read an article which she had written to a local newspaper regarding the disadvantages of an overcrossing for school children~ Mrs. Margaret Tracy, 1262 Madison, Livermore, stated she felt a school should not be located on an earthquake fault and studies revealed there were two faults in the area of the proposed location. She also stated that annexation of the property would probably bring pressure of development of the adjacent hill pro- perty. Dr. Don Williams, Murray School District, stated that after considerable study and discussion, the proposed school site was felt to be the best site for an intermediate school~ 2. 10/1/73