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Sacramento Press / Johnson aims to link city services with schools

Sacramento Press / Johnson aims to link city services with schools

Johnson aims to link city services with schools

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said Thursday he is organizing an effort to link city services with Sacramento school districts.

At a press conference at American Lakes Elementary School in Natomas, Johnson laid out a plan for how local schools can benefit from a relationship with city government.

Sacramento schools and the city should explore methods to share city facilities and to boost public safety and after-school efforts for schoolchildren, he said.

“We’re talking about the need to create a partnership in a way that we have not done in the past,” Johnson said to an audience that included a group of third graders.

City Hall and the school system need to bolster their relationship because both entities are experiencing