Present: Sarah O’Keefe, Jane McLaughlin, Gail Heckemeyer, Gail Cooluris, Midori W., Patrick McGrew, Tom McHale, Heidi Loper, Jean Meyer, Matt Best, Amanda E., Rachel P.

Guest: Patrick Donlon

1. Approval and review of minutes.
The minutes of the March 25, 2004 meeting were approved as written.

2. Attendance presentation by Patrick Donlon, assistant principal.
Patrick summarized the attendance policy at the school and the levels of absence at which letters are sent to parents/guardians, contracts written or meetings held.

Level 1 Truancy: 21 – 41 periods of unexcused absence. Attendance 1 letters sent, counselor-student conference advised, parent conference held if requested.

Level 2 Truancy: 42 – 62 periods of unexcused absence. Attendance 2 letters sent, SART (school attendance review team) Conference held, contract signed. Discipline is involved.

Level 3 Truancy: 63+ periods of unexcused absence. Police Department may be involved at this point, DMV may be involved, monthly diversion programs sometimes assigned. The police department has just assigned a truancy officer.

For the 2003-04 school year so far: 290 level 1 letters sent; 130 SART level 2 conferences; approximately 20 level 3 truancy meetings.

Patrick would like more incentives for good behavior to reward outstanding attendance.

3. Bylaw Changes.
Gail Cooluris and Tom McHale presented revisions to the bylaws with new language in Article III, Membership, clarifying who votes and clearing up language, and adding the required Article V, Section 7, which has to do with public Notice of Meetings. The California Education Code requires this language. In Article V, Section 8 (would be renamed Section 9), the proposal is to delete subsections 1 and 2, pertaining to privacy of some meetings. Other changes are minor and clarify language. The committee made a few additional language changes.There was a motion to approve the changes as discussed. It was seconded and passed.

4. Continuing Proposal Approval Process.
Sarah O’Keefe reviewed last month’s decisions and reported on some follow-up questions from the last meeting. We are still deferring some, but here on the ones Sarah investigated.

Proposal #8. Gwyn Bruch did not get back to Sarah about the light board. We will revisit this after the other proposals have been completed.

Proposal #13. Brett Stone said the flex cam would be used daily and cannot be replaced by an opaque projector. Approved for full amount, $850.

Proposal #14. Jana Henry said the calculators will be used for lower level classes for whom there are no calculators. She has a locked cabinet and the calculators will be checked out for in-class use only. Approved for $600.

Proposal #16. English department videos. Sarah O’Keefe asked Sharon Hallberg who said that one of the titles is an AP production, A Doll’s House, and recommended we not purchase that title. The other two were funded at $204.

Proposal #19. Industrial Ed, $2359, funded.

Resuming discussion of the following proposals left from last month:

• 20. Reading. $850. TV, VCR, DVD. Approved for full amount.
• 21. Home Ec. $150. Sewing machine parts, mixer equipment. Approved for full amount.
• 22. Foreign language. $1,000. Readers for Japanese. Approved for full amount.
• 23. Climate committee. $350. Awards. Not funded.
• 24. Industrial Tech. $2,340. Fuel cell, cart, exp kits. Deferred till May.
• 25. Business. $300. Computer software. Deferred till May.
• 26. Social studies. $1,690. Supplemental texts. Approved for full amount.
• 27. Art. $1923. Projectors, camera, videos. Approved for full amount.

On those now approved, from among 2 – 27, we have spent $19,962. If 8, 24, and 25 were funded, the total would be $26,231. We will complete discussion of these next month.

Returning to A, B, D, and 1.

• A. Administration proposal for teacher training and conferences. 10-15% of total grant. No decision on amount until May.
• B. Library request for 10% of total grant. No decision on amount until May.
• D. Technology request. Schoolwide tech needs, a percentage set aside and determined by the technology committee. No decision on amount until May.
• 1. Library $6,400. 8 computers. Approved for full amount.

There was no further business. The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

Minutes recorded by Jean Meyer