After more than two hours of emotional public debate about the future of the rapidly growing Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, school board member Laura Gonzalez wanted to make something perfectly clear – no decisions have been made.

Some parents, both at last night’s public forum at the charter school campus on Humboldt Street and at a school board meeting last month when the idea of sending kindergarten and first graders from the arts charter over to Doyle Park’s campus was first aired, accused the board of excluding parents from the planning process.

Not so, said Gonzalez.

“We are not doing things without them. This is the process,” she said.

The proposal has never been more than a discussion item at the board level and the response from parents last month prompted the board to schedule two public forums on the topic – one last night and a second at Doyle Park on Feb. 16.

The fact that arts charter parents largely do not want students pulled from the Humboldt campus to another location is coming through loud and clear.

“Come up with another proposal. Kill this one, nobody likes this, I don’t even think you like it,” arts charter dad Zach Bailey said Wednesday night.

“If your intent to was to come up with a real lousy idea, you couldn’t have done a better job,” said Greg Mills, another arts charter father said at Wednesday’s public meeting.

Gonzalez said concerns about the future of the school are understood, but bristled at the idea that the board was doing anything under the radar.

“I think we have really heard them, we get that,” she said. “We have heard their concerns.”

The next forum is scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 16 at Doyle Park Elementary School 1350 Sonoma Ave.

To read about last night’s town hall, click here : http://bit.ly/gzb0QQ