By School district to set tax parcel amount

The Los Altos School District Board of Trustees was scheduled to decide Monday night after the Town Crier press deadline the amount of the new parcel tax up for vote on the November ballot.

District officials talked about the possibility of raising the tax to $664 annually per resident at the board meeting June 3.

The district plans to use the tax money to restore school programs back to where they were before voters defeated a similar ballot measure last March that would have raised $4.4 million. District residents would have paid $597 annually.

Los Altos

Open space district to release coastal plan

Los Altos

The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District is scheduled to release an initial plan for extending its boundaries into San Mateo’s coastal region.

The district, headquartered in Los Altos, has worked over the past four years to develop the plan that could add 35,000 constituents to an area two-thirds the size of the current district.

The initial documents will serve as the basis of its application to the San Mateo Local Agency Formation Commission for approval of its Coast Annexation.

The district has also launched a campaign to raise $200 million to acquire lands within the acquisition area.

The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District includes more than 45,000 acres of open space in 26 preserves that extends from San Carlos to Los Gatos.

The board of trustees is scheduled to discuss the annexation plan at 7:30 p.m., today at the district office in Los Altos.

For more information, call 691-1200.

- Town Crier Staff Report