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along the river. Mr. Cox thanked Mr. Albert for his input. was referred to the Planning & Zoning Commission. This Community School: Mr. Stewart: He is supervisor of the Community '~chOoI Program for Dist. 11. He said no decision was made in Decem- ber because it was not clear where the funding was coming from or what the support was in the community. He asked Mr. Reifenberger to speak first. Jan Gohman presented a petition to the Council with 893 names in favor of the Community School signed by adults. Mary Gilman said they had gotten overwhelming response for the Community School. A teenager, Barbara Lewandowski, spoke about the programs in the Community School for children. Mrs. Donovan Czech spoke about the programs for adults. Joan Johnson spoke about the advisory com- mittee and their activities. Mr. Reifenberger said this school build- ing is closed over 50% of the year. The school should be used by the children and residents of the community all year round. He said they need a coordinator and he said he just does not have the time to coordinate such a program. He said children are constantly ask- ing him about activities of a community school, so he said he was voting for a community school. The community school coordinator from Franklin School spoke. Mr. Stewart passed out a revision of the budget. Total cost was $1~,~00 for an 11 month period. The District has 10 full time community schools. They asked the Council to fund $3,300 from June 16th thru the first week of August and he was asking for fundin$ at this time, for the rest of the year from August 1st on. The school mows the lawn and repairs the school equip- ment. The Legislature gives $5,000 a year toward community schools. This bill ends next year. The School Board was allowed to levy $85,000 for expansion of the community school. Mr. A1 Eempf said the Lions Club would install the playground equipment they had pur- chased at a cost of about $9,000, as soon as the weather permits. Mr. Gotham asked if the ball fields and playgrounds would he ready in time for s~mer school. Mr. Cox asked what size ball fields they were planning. Mr. Kempf said one regulation size ball field. It could be divided up ~nto 3 or ~ smaller ones. Mr. Cox said Mr. Kempf should try to get as much donated help as possible to get these ball fields ready. Mr. Stewart thinks R~msey would qualify for $3,000 from the School Board on the first of July. Mrs. Oli- phant spoke about her ideas on community school. Motion: Mrs. Oli- phant moved due to the central location in the community and the energy shortage, that the Ramsey City Council appropriate funds for adopting a summer program for $3,300 and also for funding a full time community school beginning August 1st at $10,53~. Motion died for lack of a second. Mr. Cox asked Mr. Steffens about the amount budgeted for a community school. Mr. Steffens replied $10,O00 and $3,300 other anticipated income. He also discussed the cash flow problems. He said net bud- get for 1975 for community school was $10,000. Mr. Cox spoke about the duty of the five person Council isto represent all the people in the community. Mrs. Oliphant restated her motion with the hope, she said, that"'her fellow Councilmen would be responsive to the residents of the com-