Library cards, Coyote Valley and the new Sobrato High were the
hot topics at Friday
’s meeting of the City/School District Liaison Committee.
Library cards, Coyote Valley and the new Sobrato High were the hot topics at Friday’s meeting of the City/School District Liaison Committee.
Committee members – School District Trustees Shellé Thomas and Mike Hickey and City Councilmembers Steve Tate and Larry Carr, plus members of the city staff and district staff – voiced their approval of a program to put library cards into the hands of K-3 district students.
The Morgan Hill Library, in conjunction with the city and the School District, is launching a community literacy program in September, said Roseanne Macek, the children’s program librarian for Morgan Hill.
Funded by a $13,000 grant from Mervyn’s, fliers will go out to all K-3 students in the district inviting them to get a library card and offering prizes to students who do, as well as K-3 students who already have a card and come into the library.
Also on a back-to-school note, committee members were told by Morgan Hill Police Department Interim Chief Bruce Cumming that officers would be out in force around district schools next week and the following week, hopefully getting the message out to parents and students about safety around the schools.
MHPD Lt. Joe Sampson also announced that Officer Max Cervantes would serve as a School Resource Officer, or SRO, for the new Sobrato High and Britton Middle, and Officer Erin McNish will serve as SRO for Live Oak High and Central High.
Officer Andrew Jackson, formerly the SRO at Live Oak, will not be coming back from a job-related injury, Sampson announced.
The proposed development of Coyote Valley was another item of intense interest for committee members.
