Davis Senior High School

Site Council Meeting Minutes

March 22, 2007

Present: Sarah O’Keefe, Mike Cawley, Jean Meyer, Clarissa T., Susan Lovenburg, Bill Wheeler, Sarah Davis, Jasmine S., Kevin W., Kaitlin L.

Not present: Susan Hulsizer, Marlene Sizemore, Steve Williams, Sheila Smith, Amy Schulte, Mike M.

The meeting was held from 3:45 to 5:00 PM, with the school schedule changed because of CAHSEE testing needs. We met in the South Conference Room.

1. Approval and review of minutes

The minutes of the February 22, 2007, meeting were approved as read.

2. Principal’s report/block grant

Block grant $25,878 for library was lost because it was reallocated to purchase K-3 teacher laptops as promised by the district. There is other money this year so the loss isn’t as bad as it could be, about $95,505 one-time money in discretionary allocations. Mike Cawley listed some items that are administrative priorities, developed with staff input, and amounting to almost $41,000 more than the grant. We discussed the list as this committee must approve all spending. The list included: used golf cart, radio transmitters (walkie-talkies), auto shop equipment to modernize (different from proposals in the SIP requests), technology supplies & equipment (lcd projectors and carts, overhead projectors, and more), professional development and substitute salaries for professional development, student connectedness (field trips and other activities), home caller software (already purchased), supplemental library materials, weight room supplies, replacement stove in home ec (already purchased, reading lab, EL student center, and peer technology squad. Mike will prioritize the list and give more details, especially of the large amounts. This committee will have a special meeting along with leadership at 2:45 on Thursday April 5 to discuss before a potential spending plan goes to the board.

3. Proposed amendment for bylaw

Postponed to next meeting.

4. Site coordinator’s report:  peer tutoring

Postponed to next meeting.

5. Proposals from staff: beginning of grant allocation process

$131,963 is total for SLIP (meaning School Library Improvement Project). 38 K allocations. $93 K left to allocate.

If we follow the site plan approved in the fall, we would take $50,000 off to reduce class size in algebra 1 and geometry, and the other parts in the plan, for a total of $70,200 total estimated. This would leave $22,800 for the proposals from individual teachers as well as the ASB bookkeeper salary and the site coordinator salary.

Summary of requests and comments:

The first 4 are traditional grants:

A. Administration for staff development and training, 10-15% of budget.

B. Library for books and materials, 10% of budget.

C. Technology Committee – unknown amount requested (depends on what is available.

D. Administration $10,000 for ASB Bookkeeper salary

These are generally considered after the other grants, and we will follow this order.

Here is the summary of grant requests. No decisions have been made other than to eliminate a couple for various reasons, as indicated.

1. Library for computer lab optical mouse updates, $500 maximum

2. Library $4000 to $1500 new CPU for library checkout

3. Library $5000 for audio book library & supplies

4. Auto Shop –  no total for a long list of supplies

5. Auto Shop $1900 for license renewal for Snap-On tool electronic manual

6. Deb Kimokeo, for Random Acts of Kindness club $500 for curriculum kit; $500 for conference. Eliminated as inappropriate.

7. Don Winters, History/Social Science $2,000 readers in AP Government. Eliminated because of low amount received this year.

8. English department reader money $3000

9. English department Turn-it-It renewal $1700

10. Art – a variety of equipment for close to $60,000

11. ROP Desktop Publishing. 5 computer stations $8342

12. Fine Art $2950 computers

13. Art $10,900 computers and cameras

14. Math – media projector $1900

15. Ceramics $881 for supplies

16. Foreign language AP Spanish set of prep books, $1000. Eliminated.

Sarah O. will ask for clarification and priorities from some teachers, coordination from art department for their confusing array of requests, and PTA grants for comparison. Spreadsheet from Sarah D will be available next time..

Meetings are in the Large Conference Room unless otherwise announced. Meetings are from 3:00 – 4:30, although during the allocation process meetings run until 5:00 P.M.

Special meeting: April 4 with leadership team, 2:45

April 26, 2007

May 24, 2007

Minutes recorded by Jean Meyer