MORGAN HILL UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION MINUTES REGULAR MEETING MHUSD Board Room February 7, 2017

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1 MORGAN HILL UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION MINUTES REGULAR MEETING MHUSD Board Room Attendance Taken at 5:00 PM: Present: Tom Arnett Gino Borgioli David Gerard Teresa Murillo Donna Ruebusch Ron Woolf Steve Betando, Superintendent Faithy Limon, Student Board Representative A. CALL TO ORDER A.1. PUBLIC COMMENT ON CLOSED SESSION TOPICS There was no public comment. A.2. ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION (5:02 PM) A.2.a. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION -- Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (d) of Section : one case A.2.b. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION -- Pursuant to subdivision (a) of Government Code A.2.b.1. Beltran v. Morgan Hill Unified School District Case No. 115CV A.2.b.2. Jane Doe 1 v. Morgan Hill Unified School District Case No. 115CV A.2.b.3. Jane Doe 2 v. Morgan Hill Unified School District Case No. 115CV A.2.b.4. Jane Doe 3 v. Morgan Hill Unified School District Case No. 115CV A.2.b.5. Gregorio Nunez v. Grade Tech, Inc., Great American Insurance Company, American Contractors Indemnity Company, Morgan Hill Unified School District, and Does One through Two Hundred Case No. 16CV A.2.b.6. Grade Tech Inc., v. Morgan Hill Unified School District and Does One through Fifty, inclusive Case No. 16CV A.2.b.7. Denise Reilly v. Morgan Hill Unified School District, and Does 1-20 Case No. 16CV A.2.b.8. M.N v. Morgan Hill Unified School District et al., Santa Clara Superior Court Case No. 115CV Page 1 of 9

2 A.2.b.9. J.R., by and through his guardian ad litem, E.R. v. Morgan Hill Unified School District Civil Case 5:16-CV HRL A.2.b.10. Approve settlement agreement OAH Case Nos and A.2.c. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR (Government Code ) Morgan Hill Classified Employee Association (MHCEA) and Morgan Hill Federation of Teachers (MHFT), Designated representative: Fawn Myers / Morgan Hill Educational Leaders Association (MHELA), Unrepresented employees, Designated representative: Steve Betando, and Superintendent, Designated representative: Karen Rezendes, Lozano Smith A.2.d. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS (Government Code ) A.3.f.1. Property: APNs , , , and (1630, 1730 & 1840 Tennant Avenue) Agency Negotiators: Steve Betando, Superintendent; Kirsten Perez, Assistant Superintendent; Phil Henderson, Orbach Huff Suarez & Henderson Negotiating Parties: Puliafico Trust Under Negotiation: Price and terms of payment for potential purchase A.3.f.2. Property: APNs Hale Avenue) Agency Negotiators: Steve Betando, Superintendent; Kirsten Perez, Assistant Superintendent; Phil Henderson, Orbach Huff Suarez & Henderson Negotiating Parties: Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority Under Negotiation: Price and terms of payment for potential purchase A.3.f.3. Property: APN (9530 Monterey Rd, Morgan Hill, CA) Agency Negotiators: Steve Betando, Superintendent; Kirsten Perez, Assistant Superintendent; Phil Henderson, Orbach Huff Suarez & Henderson Negotiating Parties: South Valley Charter School (DBA Charter School of Morgan Hill) Under Negotiation: Price and terms of payment for potential purchase A.3.f.4. Property: APN & (Peet Road Property) Agency Negotiators: Steve Betando, Superintendent; Kirsten Perez, Assistant Superintendent; Phil Henderson, Orbach Huff Suarez & Henderson Negotiating Parties: Lupine Investors LLC and Borello Family Page 2 of 9

3 Under Negotiation: Price and terms of payment A.2.e. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE- DISCIPLINE/DISMISSAL/RELEASE/REASSIGNMENT/COMPLAINT (Government Code and ) A.2.f. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT/PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (Government Code 54957) Title: Superintendent A.3. RECONVENE TO PUBLIC SESSION A.4. CALL TO ORDER / PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE President Ruebusch called the meeting to order at 6:04pm Pledge of Allegiance: Kylie Sullivan, Sobrato A.5. INTRODUCTION OF BOARD MEMBERS AND STAFF Board members and staff seated around the dais introduced themselves. A.6. RECOGNITIONS / PRESENTATIONS A.6.a. American Association of University Women (AAUW) for The Wildflower Run presentation Presented by Elizabeth Mandel B. ADOPTION OF AGENDA / APPROVAL OF CONSENT CALENDAR Motion Passed: as amended moving items for further discussion, F.1.a (after G.1), F.1.b (after G.8), F.2.b (after G.2) by Trustees Gerard and Arnett, with a motion by Gino Borgioli and a second by Tom Arnett. C. APPROVAL OF MINUTES C.1. Approve the minutes from the Regular Board meeting of January 17, 2017 Motion Passed: with a motion by Mary Patterson and a second by Ron Woolf. Page 3 of 9

4 D. PUBLIC COMMENT / COMMUNICATIONS The following individuals addressed the Board Bethany Van Alstine, Nordstrom teacher speaking behalf of six colleagues at Nordstrom campus. The 5th grade students and their teachers are housed in 30 year old decaying classrooms. Would like for the issues with the portables to be fixed. She extended an invitation for those interested to see the portables for themselves. Heather Rottenborn, Spoke concerning the low teacher pay and high turnover rate and how it affects the science program. Heather is a teacher at Sobrato and fears for the science program at the high school. States that high turnover is not good for the program or for the students. Susan Polson Senior member in the science at Live Oak and has been teaching for 15 years. Feels that we need to attract good and quality science teachers and emphasize that she is concerned that teachers cannot afford to stay in the area. E. COMMUNICATIONS President Ruebusch asked for a moment of silence in remembrance of Mary Francis. E.1. Closed Session Action Report (Government Code ) A.2.b.9. J.R., by and through his guardian ad litem, E.R. v. Morgan Hill Unified School District Civil Case 5:16-CV HRL was approved by the Board with a 7-0 vote, motion made by Gino Borgioli and a second by Ron Woolf. A.2.b.10. Settlement agreement OAH Case Nos and was approved by the Board with a 7-0 vote, motion made by Gino Borgioli and a second by Ron Woolf. E.2. Report: Student Board Member Faithy Limon reported the following events at the secondary sites: Central High School: Evergreen and Gavilan representatives have been on campus to help students with college applications. Open house will be on February 16th at 6pm. Central is participating in a basketball sports league called Pro Com. Students that have good attendance come to the after school practice program and are making progress in their classes are eligible each week. There is one more week for this quarter and new students from Live Oak and Sobrato and start on Feb 27th. Live Oak High School: Is hosting the Rock the Mock on Tuesday, March 7 where students can participate in mock interviews. Spring sports have started and the Live Oak black light dance coming up. Sobrato High School: ASB hosted their annual Winter Homecoming for the student body. Juniors were in first place for the rally and their decorations with the freshmen coming in last, sophomores in third and seniors in second place. Sobrato had over 800 attendees for the academics ceremony and the annual spaghetti feed will be the following week. Women s advocacy club is meeting on Friday and Rent, the school musical, is having their opening night on Friday the 21st. Spring sports have started as well. E.3. Reports: Superintendent/Staff Superintendent Betando, spent time at the Sobrato rally with the new trustees. Superintendent Betando spoke with Santa Clara County United for Health Leadership team and will be a member of that Board. They also discussed safe routes to schools. On January 18th Britton opened a bike room with the ribbon cutting ceremony. On Saturday January 21st, the Morgan Hill Values Youth Event was held at the CCC. There was a SELPA meeting on January 25th where a topic was the proposal to dismantle the SELPAS. Steve expressed his support for the proposal since that money will be sent directly to districts. On January 26th the Leadership of Morgan Hill announced the lead person of the year, Lisa DeSilva, who works with Community Solutions. Leadership Morgan Hill held their Leadership Day at the District Office and visited school sites. The superintendent explained that it is the season of academic assemblies. This was the first Page 4 of 9

5 time that Martin Murphy had the assemblies for 6th graders to be recognized for their academics. Parents expressed their anxiety and then enthusiasm about having their students go to 6th grade for middle school. 6th grade orientation was very exciting for the current 5th graders. On February 2nd, Britton had their volcano club fundraiser to go to Central America this year. Superintendent Betando shared that many people showed up for the remembering of Mary Francis. E.4. Employee Groups: Morgan Hill Federation of Teachers / Morgan Hill Classified Employee Association / Morgan Hill Educational Leaders Association Morgan Hill Classified Employee Association, representative not present Morgan Hill Educational Leaders Association, representative not present Morgan Hill Federation of Teachers, President Gemma Abels, thanked everyone for remembering Mary Francis. Martin Murphy will be work to keep a fund for the upkeep of the Murphy garden that will be dedicated the memory of Mary Francis. Gemma expressed her gratitude to everyone who attended the MHFT Day of Action. MHFT is moving forward working on the EL Master Plan. They are hoping that next Wednesday's mediation will be the last one for a while. Some of their requests are to have an extension of full day Kinder and a two year contract. Gemma explained her personal base salaries and increases as well as salaries and increases for the Superintendent and his staff. E.5. Board Member Reports Trustee Woolf, enjoyed seeing over 800 students at the Sobrato academic awards and is looking forward to the Live Oak awards. Thanked Sobrato High School HSC for the great gathering they had last week, their jazz band entertained the group before starting their meeting. Teachers Aid Coalition is putting on the Chocolate and Wine Valentine this Saturday and the Community Cultural Center. Trustee Borgioli, enjoyed going to the awards ceremonies and loved to see the students excel. Impressed with Britton's awards this year. The 7th grade level a high level of students receiving awards. Trustee Gerard, thanked MHFT s Day of Action, truly a moving and inspiring event that had well over 100 people in attendance. It was a very positive event, calling upon the values of people in Morgan Hill of being kind and supportive. Trustee Arnett, on January 21st he attended the Santa Clara County School Boards Association new board member orientation, met and had the privilege of sitting and engaging with people who work in education in the county and state level. He shared information from the speakers at the event stating that State funding is the problem of why we don't have any money to pay the teachers as much as they should be paid. Speakers encouraged people to reach out to state representatives. Trustee Patterson, on February 24th, Children's Advocacy Group has an event called The Fierce Opportunity of Now, which will discuss cross discipline and educations on how to raise up the students and how to dismantle the school to prison pipeline. Trustee Ruebusch, on January 18 th attended the Dedication of the Specialized "Bike Room" in partnership with Britton; on January 19 th attended MHFT's Day of Action, and presentation of our MHUSD's resolution; on January 20 th attended the ongoing planning for Read Across America on Dr. Seuss birthday, March 2 nd ; on January 21 st participated in the San Jose Women s March; on January 23 rd worked with Allan McCarthy, our retreat facilitator and author of the book Beyond Genius, Innovation and Luck, to plan our Board retreat on February 17 th to be held at the Villa Mira Monte; on January 25 th met with representatives of the Federation; on January 26 th attended the SCCSBA meeting and County Superintendent Jon Gundry presented; January 27 th attended the Leadership Morgan Hill Day of Education; went to Sacramento on January 27 th / 28th to attend CSBA s New President workshop; January 30 th met with Casino Fajardo and Kirsten Perez to further discuss the design build concept; attended the Home and School Club District meeting on February 3 rd at Sobrato; also on February 3 rd attended the New Board Orientation with Trustees Patterson and Murillo along with Superintendent Betando; February 6 th Page 5 of 9

6 attended the Sobrato Academic Awards; and is doing continuous planning and work for the TAC Wine and Chocolate event to be held February 11 th at the Community and Cultural Center. E.6. Calendar: Upcoming events President Ruebusch read from the calendar of events. F. CONSENT ITEMS F.1. BUSINESS SERVICES F.1.a. Approve appointment for Citizen's Oversight Committee members for Measure G Bond This item was moved from the Consent agenda for further discussion. Motion Passed: with a motion by Ron Woolf and a second by David Gerard. F.1.b. Approve amendment to the agreement between Morgan Hill Unified School District and Cleary Consultants, Inc. for additional services for the Removal Action Work Plan (RAW) for the Peet Road Property This item was moved from the Consent agenda for further discussion. Motion Passed: with a motion by Mary Patterson and a second by Ron Woolf. F.1.c. Adopt resolution to accept donations made to the Morgan Hill Unified School District F.1.d. Adopt resolution to accept increases to budgets as a result of donations and make changes between funds as needed F.1.e. Approve agreement for architectural services with Weston Miles for the El Toro Health Science Academy F.1.f. Resolution to approve use of design-build process (Education Code Section ) for the design and construction of the Britton Middle School Project F.1.g. Approve Agreement with Verde Design for the resurfacing of the tennis courts at Live Oak High School Page 6 of 9

7 F.1.h. Approval of agreement with Keyser Marston Associates for employee housing feasibility study F.2. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES F.2.a. Ratify contracts for Special Education Services for in the amount of $33,230 F.2.b. Adopt resolution to support Restorative Justice Practices This item was moved from the Consent agenda for further discussion. Motion Passed: with a motion by Tom Arnett and a second by Teresa Murillo. F.2.c. Spring 2017 Open House Schedule F.2.d. Approve travel for twenty five Martin Murphy Middle School and fifty five Britton Middle School Band students to Southern California to visit University of California Irvine and University of California Los Angeles campuses and Disney Recording Studio F.2.e. Approve Amendment for California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) Project 2 Inspire Contract F.3. HUMAN RESOURCES F.3.a. Approve revised job description for Dispatcher F.3.b. Adopt resolution to adopt criteria for determining order of certificated employee seniority for those employees with the same date of first paid service in a probationary position F.3.c. Approve certificated seniority list F.3.d. Approve personnel action to employ, re-employ, promote, reassign, accept resignation, accept retirement, and authorize related compensation F.4. SUPERINTENDENT F.4.a. Proposed revisions to Board policies based on updates from California School Boards Association policy maintenance services G. GENERAL BUSINESS -PUBLIC SESSION ITEMS FOR BOARD DISCUSSION Page 7 of 9

8 G.1. Morgan Hill Sister City (Mizuho Town, Tokyo, Japan) Student Exchange Program Presented by Ramon Zavala, Assistant Superintendent Educational Services, Cindy van Rhijn and Mary Wakatsuki. G.2. Focus on Equity: Restorative Justice Presented by Jeff Brandon, Morgan Hill School Resource Officer G.3. Accept Personnel Commission annual report Presented by Fawn Myers, Assistant Superintendent Human Resources and Personnel Commissioners Steve Klem and Kathy Sullivan Motion Passed: with a motion by Ron Woolf and a second by Mary Patterson. Absent David Gerard G.4. California's School Accountability Update Presentation Presented by Glen Webb, Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment G.5. Approve second interim budget for the restricted non-general funds as reported in the Standardized Account Code Structure (SACS) report Presented by Victoria Knutson, Director of Fiscal Services Motion Passed: with a motion by David Gerard and a second by Ron Woolf. G.6. Governor's budget proposals for the state budget Presented by Kirsten Perez, Assistant Superintendent Business Services G.7. Approve certificated waiver Presented by Fawn Myers, Assistant Superintendent Human Resources Motion Passed: with a motion by Gino Borgioli and a second by Ron Woolf. Page 8 of 9

9 G.8. Certificated recruitment events for Presented by Fawn Myers, Assistant Superintendent Human Resources G.9. New business: future agenda items / recognitions Trustee Murillo would like a special education board item for open discussion about current programs and other initiatives the District is working on Trustee Borgioli requested having the NSDA (National School District Association) agenda item that he requested in December to be discussed at the next meeting and would like to present it with his rationale. H. PUPIL DISCIPLINE I. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 9:00pm. The Board returned to Closed Session and concluded the meeting at 9:58pm. Steve Betando, Superintendent March 7, 2017 Page 9 of 9