Hills2000, a non-profit community group in Los Altos Hills, has scheduled an educational forum 6:30-9 p.m. Aug. 2 addressing the city council’s recent actions to assist the Bullis Charter School is purchasing a site for its campus in Los Altos Hills.

The forum will be held at the home of residents Sue and John Sullivan.

The council voted last week to investigate kicking in up to $2.5 million toward a site for the charter school. The council also approved spending up to $12,000 on a consultant to help locate a suitable site for the school’s future campus.

The charter school’s foundation has offered $1 million toward a land purchase and $4 million toward developing and operating a school.

The educational program is intended to provide information for those planning to run for the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees and community members on public school issues that are relevant to town residents.

This program is intended to encourage interested candidates to consider running for the school district’s open seat.

Forum participants will include Roger Burnell, chairman of the town’s public education committee, Ken Moore, president of the Bullis Charter School board, and Wanny Hersey, principal of Bullis Charter School.

The event will also provide a history of public education in town, as documented by members of the town’s public education committee.

“Hills 2000 … recognizes the need for better understanding of the educational issues and choices in Los Altos Hills,” according to a statement from the non-profit. “Since the 2002 closing of the Bullis-Purissima Elementary School by the Los Altos School District (LASD), the Los Altos Hills City Council and many other organizations and groups have undertaken efforts to return a public education site to Los Altos Hills. … There is a need for a Hills candidate who lives in the Los Altos School District to run for the opening on the LASD board.”

Los Altos Hills lost its last remaining public elementary school in 2003 when the Los Altos School District closed Bullis-Purissima Elementary School, transferring about 218 students to schools within Los Altos city boundaries.

The district has declined to lease the closed Bullis site to the charter school. The council sued the district last fall for leasing the site to three preschools.

In May, the charter school’s foundation announced it had raised $5 million toward purchasing and building a campus within the town’s boundaries.

For more information, visit www.hills2000.org.