Attended by Tom Dooher, Roberto Carrasquilla, Channelle Wells, Peggy Daley, Cindy Philapil, Lisa Twaronite, Angel Fontanilla, Monique Perez-Jones, LaChon Richardson
(1) ENROLLMENT/BUDGET
Tom: Enrollment is about flat. Current enrollment is 218, and we are budgeted for 213.
I would like to raise tuition about 9% to cover big jump in administrative costs and medical costs. The teachers' medical costs went up about 27%. They got a 3.5% raise, whereas the average in the Bay Area was 4.25%.
(2) NEW PROGRAMS
Tom: I want to expand our Spanish program, because parents want it. Annie [current part-time Spanish teacher] doesn't want to teach Spanish, she wants to be a resource person. I offered her the expanded Spanish job and she decided she doesn't want to take it. So I am looking to contract for 5 days/week, K-5, with IES. They provide their own materials and credentialed teachers.
New teachers - for the 6th grade, we will probably be hiring Vierika, our current part-time science teacher. Ms. Argenal is leaving, so the other teachers will have to teach Social Studies. If we rearranged their schedules, the teachers can do it. We're still working on it.
Vicky Bruce [currently in charge of afterschool care] wants an aide's job.
I want to extend Homework Club to 5:30.
(3) SURVEY RESPONSE
Tom: I got 92 responses to the WASC survey.
(4) BOARD RETREAT
Tom: I would like to do a formal retreat next year for parent board training.
(5) NEW DETENTION POLICY
Tom: Our detention policy didn't work, so I disbanded it this year.
I would like to start Saturday detentions, and charge $25 per student, with the money to go toward whoever monitors the kids that day. The teachers love this idea and all eight of them said they would do this.
(6) SPRING CONCERT
Tom: The date proposed is May 27th.
(7) CONCRETE WORK
Tom: The Guidrys removed old trees and planters and paved the area in the schoolyard, because it was a hazard.
(8) TARDYS
Tom: Our tardys are off the charts. What to do? It's not the kids' fault most of the time -- it's the parents who are getting the kids to school late.
(9) MOVIE NIGHT
Roberto: I talked to Dave Schwabe, and tried to get him to provide screen and projector. He's not sure yet if it will work or not. It will be free, but we will send refreshments. It will start at 7:00, and we're putting together a preliminary list of movies, and we can have the kids vote on which one they want to see.
Cindy: The school has a screen which is stored in the hall, and I can provide the projector.
