Pacific Grove Unified School District
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Address any questions to the Superintendent, Dr. Jack Marchi, or call the District Office at 831-646-6510.

The Board of Education of the Pacific Grove Unified School District held a meeting on May 18, 2000 at Pacific Grove High School Library.

A. OPENING BUSINESS

1. Call Opening Session to Order: 7:35 p.m.

2. Roll Call: Members present: Debi Page
Beth Shammas
Jessie Bray
Rod Herndon
David Campbell
Administrators Jack Marchi, Superintendent
present: Robin Blakley, Asst. Superintendent

3. Identify Closed Session Topics:
a. Conference with labor negotiators Jack Marchi and Robin Blakley.
The employee organization: Pacific Grove Teachers' Association.
The employee organization: California School Employees Association
b. Liability Claim ­ Claimant: Wilson (Anderson)
Agency claimed against: PGUSD

4. Public Comment Period Regarding Closed Session Items: None.

B. RECONVENED IN OPEN SESSION 7:40 pm

11. Pledge of Allegiance: recited.

2. Adoption of Agenda: Request to Table Action Items G.3-10 and move Action Item G.1 to follow Consent Items. MOTION (Bray/Herndon) to adopt agenda as amended. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

3. Report Action Taken in Closed Session: No action taken. Will reconvene in Closed Session at end of Regular Meeting.

C. COMMUNCATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

D. Written Communications: Letter received from Alex & Colleen Greenlee regarding community service at the Middle School; e-mail from Mr. Rosheed, as well as letter from Laurie Sujan delivered to District Office today, about time differential at Forest Grove; letter and materials from Linda Smith regarding Early Release Time at the Middle School. Letters also received regarding the Libraries at David Avenue, Forest Grove and Robert Down.
11. Superintendent's Report: Commended John Spanton, District Bus Driver, on his handling of a blown tire on a field trip last week. John was professional, kept the children calm, used proficiency and communication to deal with the emergency.

11. Board Member Comment: Shammas: Would like to attend a Health Insurance Workshop on May 24th. Herndon: Enjoy being at the High School and seeing the students in attendance. Page: Welcome to the students. Bray: Welcome to Robert Andersen, Student Board Member; The Herald is spreading our good news: PGMS music awards, PGHS students honored by The Herald at dinner; Lea Gasperson and Jack Hendon, named top MTAL Softball player of the Year and Coach of the Year. Campbell: Violinist at PGMS; PGHS 3 music students were honored for outstanding musicianship awards at Reno Music Festival; Lea Houlette PGHS student to CCS in diving; Middle School Wizard of Oz and High School West Side Story. Andersen: Thank you for last weekend's Prom no student was under the influence of alcohol.

D. INDIVIDUALS DESIRING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD
None

E. CONSENT ITEMS:
MOTION (Bray/Shammas) to pull minutes of the meeting on 5/04/00 to review and correct and approve amended consent items. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

G.1 ACTION ITEM
Time Allocations Forest Grove/Robert Down: Tim Culbertson, Principal, FG, announced that his staff worked out a solution to the time allocations at FG. By using the reconfiguration to find time for small group reading and bolster the program, the addition of a Life Skills course will be included next year and Second graders will attend school all day. No action needed on this item.

E. INFORMATION/DISCUSSION

11. Evaluation/Recommendation Thursday Early Release Day at PGMS: Sherry Boyle, Principal, PGMS, gave an update on the survey. 128 responses from parents of 5th ­ 8th graders. 27% (35) in favor of late arrival; 66% in favor of current early release; 6% (8) had other ideas. The result is 2 to 1 in favor of keeping the current schedule. This item will return to the Board at the June 1 meeting as an action item.
12. Student Request for the Establishment of a Debate Class at PGHS: Teacher, Jeff Lanzman, students Kent Leatham and John Mothershead request a Debate Class be funded at the High School. Over 50 students signed a petition, which was presented to the Board and several other students voiced their hopes of a class next year. A few options were outlined: ask the high school administration to look at current offerings to see if a debate class could be accommodated, look at classes with limited enrollment and see if some offering should be dropped to accommodate this request or possibly approach MPC to see if a class could be offered via their onsite program. Students will be meeting with Superintendent Marchi in the coming weeks.
13. Subcommittee Reports:
Negotiations: Next meeting Monday May 22.
Policy Committee: Nothing to report.
ROP: Next meeting June 21.
Communications: Would like to generate final Board Update and possibly include articles about the Budget and a letter from Dr. Marchi covering the reconfiguration and bond updates; Jessie Bray will coordinate. Board participation is welcome. Regarding the District web page, David Campbell will meet with Bruce Cates to have an oversight of the current information procedure.
Community of Human Services: Shammas unable to attend meeting today (May 18). Tour of operations is planned. Also a meeting with Director regarding expectations defined.
Facilities: Would like to meet with new City Manager when possible.

11. Bond/Modernization Report Initial disbursement of a portion of funds is occurring as the design phase is in process. Initial project descriptions with site priorities and initial budgeting recommendations will be brought to the Board for review in June. Files documenting all expenditures of bond funds are being maintained. The project is on schedule at this point.
12. RHD/FG Reconfiguration Update Building of the modular buildings has started at the Lathrop factory. Site preparation is started and we are slightly ahead of schedule by a couple of weeks. Safety issue will be covered with contractor and administrators.
13. Changes to High School Handbook Copy of changes was distributed to Board members and will return to Board at June 1 meeting as an action item.
14. Tentative Budget 2000/01 The administration is putting together the budget based on the direction from the Board. Full 2000/01 budget will be prepared for consideration at June 15, 2000 meeting.
15. Superintendent's Evaluation MOTION (Page/Campbell) to table item for June 1, 2000 meeting. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

ACTION ITEMS

11. PG Fire Department/High School Project: MOTION (Herndon/Bray) to approve the proposed project to proceed subject to development of specific guidelines, defining responsibilities, operational times, liability, etc. that insure that the activity does not have an adverse impact on the school district. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.
12. 1999/2000 Child Development Fund Budget Revision #3: MOTION (Bray/Shammas) to approve the proposed budget revisions. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.
13. 1999/2000 Adult Education Budget Revision #4: MOTION (Campbell/Bray) to approve the proposed budget revisions. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.
14. 1999/2000 Cafeteria Program Budget Revisions #3: MOTION (Andersen/Bray) to approve the proposed budget revisions. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

F. FUTURE MEETINGS/AGENDA ITEMS
June 15, 2000 at Middle School (change from Robert Down School)

I. ADJOURNMENT at 9:39 p.m. of regular meeting.

RECONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION

Report Action Taken in Closed Session: MOTION (Herndon/Shammas) to accept the tentative agreement between PGTA and PGUSD concerning Community High School lead Teacher. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

MOTION (Herndon/Campbell) to reject the liability claim by claimant: Wilson (Anderson) against the Pacific Grove Unified School District. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

MOTION (Herndon/Shammas) to expel student. Motion CARRIED 5 to 0.

Submitted,

Jack Marchi, Secretary
Board of Education

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