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MOUNTAIN HOUSE PROPOSED ALTAMONT HEIGHTS TENTATIVE MAP 4. ENVIRONMENTAL CHECKLIST 4.13 PuBuc SERVICES Law Enforcement The San Joaquin County Sheriff provides law enforcement services to the Mountain House Community under contract with the MHCSD. The County Sheriff employs 124 uniformed deputies who serve people in the unincorporated areas of San Joaquin County. There is a sheriff's office at the Mountain House fire station. The project site is located in Beat Area 8, which includes the unincorporated areas near Tracy bounded by the Alameda County line to the west,the Stanislaus county line to the south and east,and the Old River to the north. These same officers act as deputy coroners by responding to unattended deaths in San Joaquin County(EDAW, 2005b). Public Schools Lammersville Elementary School District The project site is located in the service area of the Lammersville Elementary School District (LESD), which serves kindergarten through 8th grade (K-8) students from the unincorporated area of the County to the north and south of Interstate 205 (I-205). LESD currently operates two public elementary schools, Lammersville and Wicklund. Wicklund Elementary School, located along Legacy Drive in Neighborhood F of the Mountain House Community,was designed with a capacity for 875 students. Enrollment in August 2006 was 659 students (Machado Checklist, 2006). LESD plans to construct and operate two new K-8 schools in the Mountain House Community area in Neighborhoods E and G of the Specific Plan I project area. Construction of the Bethany Elementary School in Neighborhood E began in August 2006, and it will open in August 2007 (Machado Checklist, 2006). These two schools would serve students in the Specific Plan Ili area (where the proposed project is located) until the schools planned to specifically serve the Specific Plan III area are constructed(EDAW, 2005b). Tracy Unified School District The Mountain House Community is located in the service area of the Tracy Unified School District(TUSD), which provides public high school services. TUSD currently serves approximately 5,400 high school students at two comprehensive high schools and one continuation high school. The closest comprehensive high school to the project site is West High School, located at 1775 West Lowell Avenue in Tracy, approximately 6 miles from the Mountain House Conununity. In August 2006, 123 students from the Mountain House Community were enrolled in TUSD high schools. Almost all Mountain House Community high school students currently attend West High School (Machado Checklist, 2006). This school was originally designed for a capacity of 2,400 students,but current attendance is approximately 2,900 students. West High School utilizes rented portable classrooms to provide the additional classroom space. The second comprehensive high school operated by TUSD is Tracy High School, which has a capacity for 1,800 students. Tracy High School currently accommodates 2,500 students and also uses rented portable classrooms for additional classroom space. In 2006,TUSD plans to begin construction of a new school facility along Lammers Road to accommodate students in grades 6 through 12. TUSD also plans to begin the first phases of 4-63