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 School Council
AGENDA
MINUTES
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Council Minutes
January
4, 2012
Meeting
called to order: 3:33 p.m.
Present: Roger Blumenthal (parent), Donna Phillips
(parent), Seth Aleshire (facilitator/certified), Kathy
Scheppe (principal), April Knippen (certified), Peggy Herron
(certified), Gary Fowler (parent), Randall Krieg (certified)
Absent: Joyce Smith (community representative), Richard
Lugo (classified),
Resigned: Alivia Mellor (parent). WE ARE LOOKING FOR A
REPLACEMENT FOR THIS POSITION. MEETINGS ARE THE FIRST
WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 3:30 P.M.
Minutes
from Oct 12 meeting were approved as written. Moved by Mr.
Blumenthal and 2nd by Mr. Aleshire
Call to
Audience: No response
Agenda
Items:
After school tutoring- We currently have 6
teachers conducting after school tutoring on either Mondays
and Thursdays or Tuesday and Thursdays: Knippen, Herron,
Kelliher, and Bohland doing math tutoring; Blomquist and
Marquez conducting L.A. tutoring.
Over
the last couple of months, we have been trying to organize
transportation for students living great distances (e.g.
Pistor, Hohokam) from Gridley, so they might participate in
tutoring. A plan was developed and the district has agreed
to provide a bus on tutoring days that arrives at 4:40 and
takes the students to Booth-Fickett where they can ride on
Fickett’s activity buses that reach outlying areas of TUSD’s
district lines. Tutoring is over at 4:15, so Ms. Scheppe
will monitor students until the bus arrives. On the first
day this plan was implemented, 3 students rode the bus, and
they left school with their homework done as well as going
to tutoring.
Computer/Bandwidth- The computers in both labs have been
cleaned and software installed. They all work and are ready
for use by classes. Bandwidth was not updated over the
holidays as promised by the district. Ms. Herron called
Tech Support and the latest word is that Gridley’s bandwidth
should be updated by the end of this week. This will lessen
staff frustration due to slow computers and will enable Ms.
Herron and Ms. Kalal to begin using the Rosetta Stone
software that the district has provided for their
Exploratory Arts classes.
Site
Council Leadership meeting: Ms. Scheppe and Ms. Herron
attended on November 11, 2011. Ms. Scheppe conducted one of
the pull-out sessions. Please see Ms. Herron’s notes for
further information on this topic.
Next
month’s agenda items:
Deseg money update-how to
spend the remainder
Undesignated 301 tax credit funds
use for soft capital expenses
Next year’s budget
Rosetta Stone demo
Meeting
adjourned at 4:21- Mr. Aleshire moved and Mr. Blumenthal 2nd
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