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employs 95 officers and 15 sergeants to patrol a total of 1,440 square miles using a beat system. The nearest (and only) station is located at French Camp, south of the project site. The average response time to the project area depends upon the priority of the service call and the location of the beat officer at the time of the call. Burglary is the major crime in this area. The County Sheriff's Department is presently understaffed and a study is being prepared to determine the extent of staffing needs (Stewart, 1987)• The sheriff's department indicated that no new stations are planned for the immediate future and that the department shares mutual aid agreement with all cities in the County and with neighboring counties (Stewart, 1987). Fire Protection. The Tracy Rural Fire District is responsible for fire protection and emergency medical service within unincorporated areas of San Joaquin County. Station 4, the Jefferson Station, at 7700 Linne Road is located approximately one quarter mile from the proposed project site and the Banta station located at Grantline and 7th Street. Approximately 15 volunteers serve a 200 square mile area (Olivera, 1987). Emergency response time is from approximately one to three minutes for the Jefferson Station and a range of three to seven minutes from the Banta station (Olivera, 1987)• Because fire service is provided by volunteers, response times may vary. If needed, both the New Jerusalem and Lammersville stations will respond to major structure fires. The fire district reported that no new stations were being planned (Olivera, 1987). The service area of Station 4 has an Insurance Service Office (ISO) rating of Class 6 when fire hydrants are within 1,000 feet of each other for rural residential land use. Fire department service levels nationally are rated on a scale of one to ten (best to worst) in an effort to determine the cost of fire insurance for property owners. A rating of eight is the best possible rating in a rural area. In 1986, the Tracy Rural Fire District handled 1,000 calls: 247 emergency medical needs; 276 auto accident related calls; 23 structure fires; and 165 grass fires (Thienes, 1987). Schools. The Jefferson (Elementary) School District serves the City of Tracy and its unincorporated areas. This school district provides one school (Jefferson School) for grades kindergarten through eighth. Jefferson School is located adjacent to the project site at Linne and Chrisman Roads, and serves 320 students. At present, Jefferson School uses six portable classrooms which enables the school district to adjust the available capacity as needed (Hawkins, 1987). Tracy Public (High) School District serves the City of Tracy and its unincorporated areas as well. This district has a total of 2,200 high school students. These students are educated at either Tracy High School (approximately 2,000 students) or Duncan Russell School (a Continuation High School teaching approximately 200 students) (Blakley, 1987)• Both Tracy High School and Duncan Russell High School are at capacity. The school district has plans to construct a new high school located in Tracy at the west end of Lowell Avenue between Lincoln and Corral Hollow (Blakley, 1987). The proposed new high school is still in preliminary planning, costs and funding methods have not yet been identified (Schantz, 1986). 3.4-2