Pacific Grove Unified School District
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The Board of Education of the Pacific Grove Unified School District held a meeting on May 2, 2002 at the Adult Education Center.

I. OPENING BUSINESS

A. Call to order: 6:30 pm

B. Roll Call: Members Present: Jessie Bray
Anne Hall
Debi Page
Beth Shammas
Richard Schramm

Student Rep: John Mothershead

Administrators Patrick Perry, Superintendent
Present: Robin Blakley, Assistant Superintendent

C. Identified Closed Session Topics

D. Public Comment On Closed Session Items: None present

E. Adjourn to Closed Session: 6:32 pm

II. RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION: 7:10 pm

A. Pledge of Allegiance: recited.

B. Adoption of Agenda: MOTION (Shammas/Bray) to adopt agenda. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

C. Report Action Taken in Closed Session: No action taken.

III. COMMUNICATONS:

A. Written Communications: All Board members received invitation to Adult School Graduation and Band Award Night.

B. Superintendent Report: Ellen Coulter, High School Teacher has received the Griffin Award and will be honored at a ceremony on May 29th at the Monterey Plaza Hotel.

C. Board Member Report: Mothershead ­ Saturday was Prom, "Paris in Springtime" at CSUMB Ballroom, tomorrow is Shakespeare Day at the High School; Andrew Anderson is putting on a play that is opening tonight, Thousands Clowns. Bray ­ attended Annual Dinner & Organizational Meeting of the Monterey County School Boards Association April 30, 2002. Ms. Bray also attended the District Library Committee Meeting and reported the committee is preparing a report to be presented at the next meeting regarding the Library Improvement Evaluation. Hall ­ thanked Adult School for invitation to graduation.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENT: None

V. CONSENT AGENDA: MOTION (Hall/Bray) to adopt consent agenda.

Out of County Activities
Acceptance of Donations
Certificated Personnel Assignment Order No. 16
Classified Personnel Assignment Order No.15
Minutes of April 18, 2002 Meeting
Warrant Schedule No. 409
Revolving Cash No. 10
Cash Receipts No. 10
Award of Consultant/Material Testing Contract for High School Modernization Project
Approval of Middle School Governor's Performance Award Expenditure Plan
Approval of Driver Training Agreement 2002-03
Approval of Revision to Bylaw/Exhibit 9150­ Student Board Member and Approval of Resolution 695
Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

VI. INFORMATION/DISCUSSION:

A. Sub Committee Reports:
City/District (Page): Nothing to report.
Negotiations (Bray): Next meeting Monday, May 6. President of CSEA has invited the Board to attend their negotiations and Ms. Bray asked for a discussion and direction. Beth Shammas will attend the CSEA negotiations that are scheduled for May.
ROP (Schramm): Mr. Schramm attended ROP Board Meeting in King City on Wednesday at the new Hartnell College Extension facility. It was a brief agenda but two things of importance to us may be the report on legislation regarding work force proposal and concern regarding State Budget COLA 1.6% and keeping up with rising costs.

B. Maria Nunez, Principal and Cathie McAweeney, Assistant Principal of Adult School gave the Board a presentation about the Adult School and a short tour of classes currently in progress.

C. 2002-03 Budget Review: Robin Blakley reported there is no new information at this time. There will be some recommendations based on the Board identifying the Technology Support allocation, which will come to the board as suggestions on how to use these funds as support.

VII. ACTION ITEMS:

A. Approval of Revisions to Pacific Grove High School Student/Parent Handbook: MOTION (Hall/Schramm) to approve revisions to the 2002-03 High School Student/Parent Handbook. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

B. Award of the High School Modernization Phase II Project Contract ­ Alternates: MOTION (Bray/Hall) award Alternates 8 and 10 to Baptista with funding from previously approved GPA and High School Phase II Measure A Funds as indicated and defer Action on Alternate 2 to a future meeting. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

C. Resolution No. 693 California Day of the Teacher: MOTION (Hall/Shammas) to approve Resolution No. 693 proclaiming the Day of the Teacher May 8, 2002. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

D. Resolution No. 694 Classified School Employee Week: MOTION (Bray/Shammas) to approve Resolution No. 694 proclaiming Classified School Employee Week May 20-24, 2002. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

E. Board Calendar/Future Meetings: MOTION to approve amended Board Calendar May 16, 2002 start at 5pm and Open Session start at 7:15 pm at Forest Grove School. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0. Board was asked to keep in mind that the scheduled Board Meeting on December 5, 2002 is at the same time as the CSBA Annual Conference, this meeting will need to be rescheduled.

F. Future Agenda Items: No future agenda items mentioned at this time.

VIII. ADJOURNMENT: 9:00 pm

Patrick Perry
Secretary, Board of Education

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