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Good-Bye, Seniors “I Did Approve It Once Speed demons Racers compete in city’s first Soap Box Derby | P.5 JUNE 15, 2007 VOLUME 15, NO. 24 INSIDE: ARTS & EVENTS | PAGE 33 650.964.6300 mv-voice.com Child care center squeezes through NEARLY $2 MILLION COST OVERRUN DOESN’T DETER MAJORITY OF COUNCIL By Daniel DeBolt need for this,” said council member urther cementing the future Margaret Abe-Koga, later adding of the long-debated child care that “we’re not going into a deficit Fcenter proposed for Rengstorff to do this.” Park, the City Council approved This year, 27 families became $1.9 million in unforeseen project qualified to receive subsidized child costs Tuesday before the city’s care from the county, Abe-Koga 2006-07 budget was approved. said. By building this facility that During several weeks of discus- number could double, she argued, sions, a majority of the council because 30 percent of the spaces are said the project had veered from guaranteed as subsidized spots. its intended goal of providing a Council member Nick Galiotto substantial amount of subsidized said Abe-Koga had convinced him child care to low-income families in that the center would be a good NORBERT VON DER GROEBEN the neighborhood. But in the end, idea because it could provide free Mountain View High graduates Monisha Hill and Nhi Huynh race to see their friends before throwing members approved the funding or discounted child care to city their caps in the air at Tuesday’s commencement program. 5-2, with Jac Siegel and Matt Pear employees in the future. Galiotto’s opposed. opinion was quite a change from a I feel very strongly that there is a previous council meeting, when he said the center might become one of those projects that he “might very much regret being the swing Boundary vote” on. Good-bye, seniors “I did approve it once. I guess HAPPY CROWD OF NEARLY 900 GRADUATE FROM MVLA HIGH SCHOOLS options I’ll go ahead and do it again,” Galiotto said. By Alexa Tondreau Several members said that, once dous transformation that has and credit card bills” they hold on down to loans are paid off in eight years, occurred,” Moody said. to their sense of individuality. the child care center is expected to or the almost 900 students Moody recommended that as “As Hallmark and cliche as two generate about $200,000 a year in graduating from Moun- students go forward in the world it sounds, high school allowed revenue for the city, which could Ftain View and Los Altos they “value what you do for oth- me to push beyond what people subsidize even more child care for high schools, Tuesday evening ers as much as the size of your wanted me to be and allowed me SCHOOL BOARD either low-income families or city was the last time they’d ever paychecks.” to find myself,” she said. CLOSER TO A DECISION employees. stand together as a class. “I wish for each of you to win But Mark said she was also Community Action Team mem- A sea of gown-clad seniors, the your own personal Super Bowl,” aware that she and her peers had — SWITCH LIKELY FOR ber Volga Mela was one of three Class of 2007 appeared giddy Moody said, to loud cheers. just begun their long journeys of MOUNTAIN VIEW KIDS residents who spoke through a with excitement as they stood Valedictorian Elizabeth Mark self-discovery, and assured her translator in favor of the project. before a football field filled with began her speech with some classmates that they weren’t alone By Alexa Tondreau She said there has been a lot of dis- parents and friends. much-needed sympathy for if they hadn’t yet figured it all out. cussion about gang problems in the Mountain View High School the band students, who played “My name is Elizabeth Mark,” n an effort to close in on neighborhood, and that preschool principal Keith Moody, officiat- “Pomp and Circumstance” for she concluded, “and I have no idea a controversial change in could be one more way to prevent ing the school’s 105th graduation what seemed like hours as the what I want to do with my life.” Ielementary school bound- gang activity by preparing children ceremony, reminded students of graduates filed into place. aries, the Los Altos School to do well in school. just how far they had come over “I played trumpet during three Freestyle Academy District board on Monday “Our children deserve a good the course of their high school graduations. I hate “Pomp and wraps up first year narrowed its choices to two education,” Mela said. “These chil- careers. Circumstance,” Mark said.” Previously, the district’s multi- options, both of which would dren are going to be our future.” “If you can think back to your Mark advised that as students media program, Freestyle Acad- force 100 or more Moun- The center will be operated by the freshman days four years ago, enter “the adult world of coffee- you can recognize the tremen- drinking, nine-to-five schedules See GRADUATION, page 16 See BOUNDARIES, page 14 See COUNCIL, page 8 INSIDE GOINGS ON 29 | MARKETPLACE 37 | MOVIES 26 | REAL ESTATE 43 | VIEWPOINT 20 apr.com REDEFINING QUALITY SINCE 1990 Reading between the emotional line makes the difference between finding a house and a home. Jack Earl Jack Earl Derk T. 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