Open session starts at 7pm in the LASD Board Room at 201 Covington Rd. The entire agenda can be found here.
Blach Intermediate School will present to the Board. They plan to discuss their implementation of "Learning for All" in the form of co-teaching. Mrs. Grinberg and her 3rd grade students from Loyola will present the Loyola School's Work for Inclusive Playgrounds both at their school and the broader community. This is a discussion item and requires no action. Jeff Baier will provide a brief update of the 10th Site Task Force. This is a discussion item and requires no action. Randy Kenyon will present the Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement with the LATA (Los Altos Teachers Association). This is a discussion item. The approval of this agreement will be an action item at the next board meeting. The agreement can be found as an attachment under agenda item I.3 using the link above. Mr. Kenyon will also present the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the CSEA (California School Employees Association, LASD's classified staff union). This is an action item. The agreement and its effect on LASD's bottom line can be found under agenda item I.4. As stated in my last blog post, it includes a 2% salary schedule increase, requires the district pay 90% of the staff member's CalPERS contribution, and requires the professional growth stipend be increased from $8 to $10 per unit. As if we will not have had enough of Randy, he will be back up to present a Resolution for the Procurement of an Energy Management System. This is an action item. The resolution can be found under agenda item I.5. Randy is asking the board approve this resolution so that the district may solicit proposals for a new district wide energy management system. This request is precipitated by the fact that the energy management systems at the different schools are getting old, cannot be managed in a central location (like the district office) and don't play well with new solar arrays at the schools. Jeff Baier will present the contract with Blach Construction for the Lease-Leaseback for Egan Fire Project. The net cost for LASD will be $10,000 (the insurance deductible. This is an action item and can be found under agenda item I.6. Jeff asks the board to approve the contract. After a small break, Randy will present all the Summer Facilities Projects the district plans to get done over the break. This is a discussion item and Randy's presentation can be found under agenda item I.7. The improvements include the periodic maintenance the district makes across all the schools, no new facilities at BCS and the roof and fire damage at Egan. Last, but not least, Jeff Baier will present a Resolution for the Order of Election, Specifications of the Election Order and Consolidation Request. This is the standard resolution made every two years to place the expiring Governing Board Member seats on the LASD Board of Trustees on the November ballot. This is an action item and the resolution can be found under agenda item I.8. Please note, this is just the highlights of what is on the agenda for 5/29/2018 meeting. You can inform yourself about the rest of the agenda at the link provided above. As always, feel free to email me with any questions. Open session starts at 7pm in the LASD Board Room at 201 Covington Rd. The entire agenda can be found here.
Santa Rita Elementary School will present to the board. They will present on their implementation of Writer's Workshop. Kristy Lisle, Vice-President of Instruction of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District will present to the board about their "Join the Conversation" Initiative. This is a discussion item and her presentation can be found under agenda item I.1. This initiative pairs students with service learning projects. The district's Demographer will present a brief update of expected enrollment trends. This is a discussion item and the presentation can be found under agenda item I.2. Randy Kenyon will present the Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement with the CSEA (the staff union) for 2017/18 school year. This is discussion item, with no action taken at this meeting. The proposed agreement can be found under agenda item I.3. The proposed agreement includes a 2% salary schedule increase, asks the district pay 90% of the staff member's CalPERS contribution, and asks the professional growth stipend be increased from $8 to $10 per unit. Randy Kenyon will present bids for the Egan Roof Project and ask that the board Award Bids to most of the contractors. This an action item and his presentation can be found under agenda item I.4. Most bids were in line with the estimates proposed to the board when the project was approved. One part of the project (glass work) will not be brought for approval as the bids submitted were 8x the estimate and it is believed the scope of the project was misunderstood by the contractors. Please note, this is just the highlights of what is on the agenda for 5/14/2018 meeting. You can inform yourself about the rest of the agenda at the link provided above. As always, feel free to email me with any questions. Open session starts at 6pm in the LASD Board Room at 201 Covington Rd. The entire agenda can be found here.
Randy Kenyon will present a Resolution Adopting Best Value Procurement Procedures and Guidelines for Lease-Leaseback Projects. This is an action item and the resolution can be found under agenda item E.1 linked above. In Plain English, Randy wants the Board to adopt this resolution so that fire damage at Egan can be repaired this summer. This resolution is a requirement of the Education Code and outlines the procedure for the District to follow when advertising, evaluating and deciding on RFPs for this construction project. Please note, this construction project will be paid for by District's insurance. Jeff Baier will present Anthony Shortland's application to the 10th Site Advisory Task Force. He asks that the Board approve his appointment to the task force. Anthony is a Mountain View and NEC resident and sent his children to Bullis Charter School. This is an action item and his application can be found under agenda E.2. That is the entirety of the agenda. Meeting will likely not last longer than 1/2 hour. |
Jessica SpeiserThanks to your support, I joined the Los Altos School District (LASD) Board of Trustees in December 2016. I finished my tenure as Board President after serving as such from December 2018 to December 2019. I am currently Board Vice President. As usual, I will use this blog to continue updating you on upcoming Board meetings and make you aware of upcoming office hours and community events. Archives
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