Eureka City Schools Board of Education
3200 Walford Avenue, Eureka, CA
SPECIAL MEETING
April 6, 2011
5:00 P.M.
MINUTES
A. CALL TO ORDER OF OPEN SESSION
President Anderson called the special meeting to order at 5:00 p.m.
Members Present : Anderson, Taplin, Fullerton, Davis
Members Absent : None
Staff Present : Haulk, Lanning, Hartsell, Davis
B. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
Member Taplin led the Pledge.
C. DISCUSSION - The Board is asked to receive
( 1) Opening of Bid(s) and Call for Oral Bids on Purchase of Jefferson School Site
Member Fullerton announced there was one sealed bid received for the Jefferson Elementary School Property. The bid was $610,000 from the Westside Community Improvement Association.
President Anderson cited pursuant to Resolution #10-11-022 and Education Code Section 17472, the floor was opened for oral bids. The oral bid must exceed, by at least five percent, the highest written bid of $610,000. There were no oral bids made and the final bid was received for $610,000 from the Westside Community Improvement Association. There was one public comment from Emma Nelson who said, “I think it’s great!”
D. DISCUSSION/ACTION – The Board is asked to receive/discuss/act
( 2) Award Bid for Purchase of Jefferson School Site
It was M/S by Davis/Taplin that the Governing Board accept the bid of $610,000 made by the sole bidder Westside Community Improvement Association for the purchase of the Jefferson Elementary School Property and to direct and authorize the Superintendent to take further action as necessary or appropriate to complete the sale of the property, including but not limited to execution of a Purchase and Sale Agreement and Joint Escrow Instructions approved by the District’s legal counsel.
Governing Board: ayes: Davis, Fullerton, Taplin, Anderson 4; noes 0, absent 0. Motion carried with a super majority vote.
E. ADJOURNMENT
President Anderson adjourned the meeting at 5:08 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
ORIGINALS SIGNED
Gregg Haulk
Secretary of the Board of Education
Recording Secretary, Micki Davis CLERK OF THE BOARD
Eureka City Schools Board of Education
3200 Walford Avenue, Eureka, CA
REGULAR MEETING
April 6, 2011
7:00 P.M.
MINUTES
A. CALL TO ORDER OF EARLY SESSION FOR PURPOSE OF CLOSED SESSION
President Anderson called the regular meeting to order at 6:30 p.m.
B. PUBLIC COMMENT ON CLOSED SESSION ITEMS
There was no public comment on closed session items.
C. CLOSED SESSION ONLY (closed to the public)
President Anderson moved the meeting to closed session.
Members Present: Anderson, Taplin, Fullerton, Davis
Members Absent: None
Staff Present: Haulk, Lanning, Davis
( 1) Employee discipline, dismissal, release, appoint, accept the resignation of, or otherwise affect the employment status of a public employee (GC Sec 48918(c) or 76030)
( 2) Conference with Labor Negotiator Superintendent Haulk Regarding Eureka Teachers Association and Classified Blue and White Collar Units and Unrepresented Employees (GC Sec 54957.6)
( 3) Conference with Real Property Negotiator: Winzler Property (AP#009-044-005), Jefferson Property (APN: 004-094-007 and APN:004-102-003), Worthington Property (APN: 016-151-15), and District Office Property (AP#17-015-034 & #17-041-008), for Price and or Terms of Payment(GC Sec 54957.6)
7:00 p.m.
D. RECONVENING OF OPEN SESSION
President Anderson reconvened the meeting at 7:00 p.m.
Members Present : Anderson, Taplin, Fullerton, Davis
Members Absent : None
Staff Present : Haulk, Lanning, Lentz, Davis
E. REPORT OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION
Fullerton reported there was no action taken on C(1) and C(2) and no action to report on C(3).
F. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG – Zoe Barnum High School
Zoe Principal Sheri Jensen introduced student community service Interact Club members who led the Pledge. Each student spoke of the caring staff and open atmosphere of the school and the accomplishments of the Club. Zoe Barnum fine arts teacher Lee Roscoe-Bragg thanked the Board for the opportunity to show the student’s art at the district office. Ms. Roscoe-Bragg spoke of the value of creative arts in education.
G. ADJUSTMENTS TO THE AGENDA
K(24) Job Description: Instructional Coach, was pulled from the agenda.
H. INFORMATION
( 4) Student Representative Report
There were no student representative reports.
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( 5) Citizens’ Oversight Committee Annual Report to the Community
The Citizens’ Oversight Committee’s annual report to the community showed that in the year ending June 30, 2010, a total of $1,441,993 was expended for bond measure projects; $94,468 from Bond Measure T for the elementary schools and $1,347,465 from Bond Measure S for the middle schools and high school. As of June 30, 2010, Bond Measure T projects were completed; the remaining balance in Bond Measure S is $900,828. The COC will continue to serve for one year when Bond Measure S projects are expected to be complete.
( 6) Superintendent’s Report
· The district office was the location for this spring’s first extended Walking Wednesday. Today about 30 students met in the parking lot and were escorted by staff to Washington Elementary. Walking Wednesday will continue each Wednesday in April in honor of Earth Day and the first Wednesday of May and June.
· For the last couple days, representatives from EL Achieve have been visiting EL Achieve classrooms at Alice Birney and Grant. EL Achieve is the program being used to raise student achievement in English language arts. Feedback was very positive.
· The auditors will be at the district office and school sites the week of April 25, 2011.
· Three candidates have filed for the Trustee 2 position: Henry “Hank” Beck, Sharon Pierson, and Gregory Elvine-Kreis. Interviews will be held April 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the district office.
· The Superintendent will be attending the Small School District Annual Conference April 13-15 in Sacramento. This is the first year that ECS has qualified as a small school district.
· Tuesday of next week at 6:00 p.m. the Athletic Boosters Club will hold their annual fund raising event at Cheri Heights Casino.
· The State of California’s budget is still in a state of flux with $11.2 billion made in cuts and another $15.2 billion to go. Brown’s attempt to place the tax extension on the ballot has met with partisan politics. The Proposition 98 funding guarantee is still unknown and the Legislative Analyst feels the reduction to education will be more than anticipated.
· The district is in the process of preparing the 2011-2012 budget for June adoption. This budget includes the anticipated reduction of $350 per student in Proposition 98 revenue.
( 7) Board Member’s Report
The Board had nothing to report.
I. PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
There were no visitor comments.
J. CONSENT CALENDAR - The Board is asked to receive/act
It was M/S by Taplin/Davis to approve the following Consent Calendar items:
( 8) Approval of Personnel Action: Report #15
( 9) Minutes of the Regular Meeting of March 23, 2011
(10) Declaration of Curriculum Materials as Surplus and Authorization to Sell – Outdated Language Arts and Math Curriculum
(11) Short Term Position – Painter Asst/Summer Maintenance
(12) Resolution #10-11-035, Elimination of Classified Management Positions
(13) Quarterly Report to the Governing Board as Mandated by the State In Regard to the Williams Lawsuit
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J. CONSENT CALENDAR - The Board is asked to receive/act (continued)
(14) Board Policy/AR 6142.4, Service Learning/Community Service Classes
(15) Textbook Adoption: Geometry
(16) Annual Report of the Eureka School District Financing Corporation
(17) Approve Correction of Response to Audit Finding
(18) Declaration of Equipment as Surplus and Authorization to Sell
(19) Resolution #10-11-036, Recognizing May 15-21, 2011as "Classified Employee Week"
(20) Resolution #10-11-037, Recognizing May 11, 2011as "Dia del Maestro/Day of the Teacher" (21) Resolution #10-11-038, Revised Date for Observance of Abraham Lincoln's Birth Date
(22) Field Trip: NJROTC Orientation Trip to San Diego
Governing Board: ayes 4, noes 0, absent 0. Motion carried.
K. DISCUSSION/ACTION - The Board is asked to receive/act
(23) Board Policy/AR/E 6174, Education for English Language Learners
It was M/S by Fullerton/Taplin to adopt Board Policy/AR/E 6174, Education for English Language Learners. Governing Board: ayes 4, noes 0, absent 0. Motion carried
(24) Job Description: Instructional Coach
This item was removed from the agenda. Action was taken at the March 23, 2011 board meeting to approve the job description.
L. DISCUSSION - The Board is asked to receive
(25) Report on ECS Student Information Management Systems [SIMS] PowerSchool
Some of the PowerSchool reports that are used on a daily basis include enrollment, attendance, bell schedules, student schedules, and limited access to student discipline logs. PowerTeacher provides seating charts for attendance, grades, lunch information, individual student information, class reports, and web assignments. The Parent Portal allows parents access to their student’s classes, grades, and attendance. Some of the advanced capabilities available that should be used include advanced scheduling and reports, standards-based report cards, full integration with other databases, incident management/health, parent communication, integration with the phone dialer, and web assignments. Some of the issues the system is currently facing are a lack of database consistency from user input errors, possible database corruption, interfacing with CALPADS, orphan records from two PowerSchool databases, custom fields, and user accessibility issues/rights. Staff intends to address these issues through interaction with Pearson PowerSchool specialists, possible reentry of data, in-house training, a new data entry position for new students, and a major mandatory upgrade of hardware/software this summer.
(26) 2011 Summer School Programs
Each summer there is a traditional credit recovery summer school program for secondary students, but with additional Title 1 funds available, elementary principals have developed an elementary summer school remediation program. Kindergarten Academies, a jumpstart program for incoming kindergarten students, will focus primarily on literacy, math, school procedures, and CELDT administration. Grades 1-5 will serve students that scored Below Basic or Far Below Basic on the 2010 California Standards Test. Sessions will be held the first two to three weeks of August, Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The teacher-student ratio will be approximately 12/15-1 and will use only ECS teachers. Since each site’s teacher participation is voluntary, if there is not enough interest, the program will not be held. Bag lunches will be provided, but transportation will not be available.
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(26) 2011 Summer School Programs (continued)
There will also be a summer school program for incoming 9th grade students identified for intervention by placement tests in math and language arts. These classes will be a 15-1 student teacher ratio. The traditional credit recovery model for grades 7-8 will offer math and language arts on campus and science and social studies through either independent study or distance learning classes. Grades 10-12 will offer credit recovery in math, language arts, science, and social studies. The district is required to offer summer Special Day Classes with transportation.
CLOSED SESSION (CONTINUED)
The Board did not continue closed session.
M. REPORT OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION
N. ADJOURNMENT
President Anderson adjourned the meeting at 8:10 p.m.
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