Safe Routes at Mill Valley School District
Mill Valley Establishes Policy for Safe Routes to Schools
The Mill Valley School District adopted a new policy codifying the existing Safe Routes to Schools program in Mill Valley schools at its regular meeting on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.
The policy, which is broken into board and administrative policies, will ensure that the Safe Routes to Schools activities will be recognized as district policy regardless of staff and parent turnover. This includes identifying school site volunteers and teams, participation in the Mill Valley Safe Routes to Schools Task Force, and continuing the traffic safety classes at the schools.
Board Member Raoul Wertz wrote the policy in cooperation with councilmember and SRTS Task Force chair Stephanie Moulton-Peters and staff from the Transportation Authority of Marin’s Safe Routes to Schools program.
You can view the policies by clicking these links:
Edna Maguire Wins Green Ways to School Award
Principal Lisa Zimmer receives award from Deborah Cole
Edna Maguire Elementary took top honors in this year’s Green Ways to School awards, a program run by Safe Routes to School that aims to encourage more students and parents to walk, bike, scoot or carpool to school and back.
Out of a group of 30 Marin schools participating in the program, Edna Maguire had the highest overall achievement, earning the school a $2,000 award and first-place accolades.
“We’re thrilled,” said Edna Principal Lisa Zimmer. “We’re going to present the award at our life skills assembly so the whole school will know at once — they get really excited about this stuff.” read more at Mill Valley Hearald
Mill Valley Student Rides Rain or Shine
Mill Valley Middle School Student Jack Lowenstein is determined to be named commuter of the year. He rides his bike to school in all weather and has come up with some clever ways to stay dry.
Edna Maguire Principal, Lisa Zimmer
recorded a video promoting
International Walk to School Day.
You can view it here.
MEETINGS
Mill Valley Task Force
Thursday April 26 2012, Mill Valley City Hall Conference Room
MINUTES
Minutes from meeting February 2, 2012
Minutes from meeting September 8, 2011
Minutes from meeting February 2, 2011
Minutes from meeting November 4, 2010
Minutes from meeting September 9, 2010
Minutes from meeting April 28, 2011
TASK FORCE INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATES
Evergreen Project Letter from DPW
Mill Valley Project list
Traffic Signal Upgrade Grant Received for
Redwood Hwy Frontage Rd and DeSilva Island Intersection
Marin County DPW-Traffic Operasions Staff applied for a State grant to upgrade the traffic signal at the subject intersection and received a grant in the amount of $389,000. The grant for adding a northbound left turn prototected phase signal for traffic heading to the freeway and upgrading ADA related improvements such as new curb ramps in all four corners of the intersection. This project will take several years to complete and coordiante with Caltrans who owns and operates the traffic signal.
TRAVEL PLANS
Edna Maguire
Park
Old Mill
Mill Valley Middle School
