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REGULAR BOARD MEETINGSanta Rosa City Schools
August 14, 2019 6:00PM 4:30 p.m. - Closed Session 6:00 p.m. - Open Session Santa Rosa City Hall - City Council Chambers 100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa. Please take time to review the following abbreviated version of the agenda. Click here to see the entire agenda. It has live links on many items with more information. If you want to comment on any items, email agendacomments@srcs.k12.ca.us. Please CC wearesrta@gmail.com on your comments. Regular meetings are televised on local cable channel 27 and re-broadcast the following Saturday at 7:00 PM and again Sunday at 9:00 AM. Videos of the meetings are also live-streamed and posted on the SRCS YouTube Channel. Link to livestream and videos of prior meetings Closed Session Items: B.1. Public Employee Appointment/Employment: Principal (Proctor Terrace), Coordinator (State and Federal Programs) B.2. Public Employee Performance Evaluation: Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Principals, Vice Principals, Assistant Principals, Directors, Coordinators B.3. Conference With Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation: 1 case B.4. Conference With Property Negotiator: Fir Ridge (Fountaingrove) property was intended for a new school or for teacher housing by the district. There has been no public follow up since this property was explored by the board for low income housing for SRCS staff. The board appears to be preparing to sell this property. Name of party (not agent): City of Santa Rosa Instruction to negotiator will concern: Price and terms of payment B.5. Student Readmissions: Case Number: 2017/18-22 B.6. Student Expulsions: Case Number: 2018/19-46 C. RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION (6:00 p.m.) C.9. Public Comment On Non Agenda Items SRTA members are invited to complete blue speaker cards to speak to the board for up to three minutes. Items not on the agenda are addressed at this time. Items on the agenda are addressed during discussion of the item, using the same blue card. Speakers are needed at the board meeting to put a face to the messages contained here. Please commit to attending a board meeting, and speaking to an agenda item that impacts you or your students. Speakers are most impactful when they are composed and reasonable. E. CONSENT ITEMS E.2. Approval of Personnel Transactions EdJoin has 205 jobs currently posted for SRCS: 47 certificated, 156 classified, and 2 management. CLICK READ MORE TO SEE THE REST OF THE ANALYSIS
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REGULAR BOARD MEETING
Santa Rosa City Schools July 24, 2019 6:00PM 4:30 p.m. - Closed Session 6:00 p.m. - Open Session Santa Rosa City Hall - City Council Chambers 100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa. Please take time to review the following abbreviated version of the agenda. Click here to see the entire agenda. It has live links on many items with more information. If you want to comment on any items, email agendacomments@srcs.k12.ca.us. Please CC wearesrta@gmail.com on your comments. Regular meetings are televised on local cable channel 27 and re-broadcast the following Saturday at 7:00 PM and again Sunday at 9:00 AM. Videos of the meetings are also live-streamed and posted on the SRCS YouTube Channel. Link to livestream and videos of prior meetings Closed Session Items: B.4.Conference With Property NegotiatorThe parcel number provided is not registered with the county assessor's office. SRTA wonders if the district is preparing to sell their Fir Ridge (Fountaingrove) property. This property was intended for a new school or for teacher housing. A few years ago the board explored plans to create low income housing for SRCS staff. There has been no follow up item. SRCS has been urged to develop this land per the original agreement requiring the timely use of the property, or dispose of the property. C. RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION (6:00 p.m.) C.9. Public Comment On Non Agenda Items SRTA members are invited to complete blue speaker cards to speak to the board for up to three minutes. Items not on the agenda are addressed at this time. Items on the agenda are addressed during discussion of the item, using the same blue card. Speakers are needed at the board meeting to put a face to the messages contained here. Please commit to attending a board meeting, and speaking to an agenda item that impacts you or your students. Speakers are most impactful when they are composed and reasonable. E. CONSENT ITEMS E.2. Approval of Personnel Transactions SRTA welcomes 18 more new hires: Sara Williams (Music Teacher), Asia Jacques (SRHS), Emily Jacobsen (SPSV), Timothy Decker (SRHS/SRMS), Gloriana Diaz (SRHS), Noelina Gomez (MCHS), Nicholas Allen (SPSV), Abel Damkoehler (SPSV), Johana Perdomo (SRHS), Francesca Borin (CCLA), Briana Quintana Barajas (CCLA), Danielle Ullyott (SPSV), Danielle Justin (RVMS), Katrina Santiago (SPSV), Ben Staten (SRHS), Hollie Retzinger (PHS), Justin Long (LCMS), David Fiore (LCMS). We hope you have a long and fruitful career with SRCS. We welcome back five new rehires: Jacob Boulais (MCHS), Laura Tripp (SPSV), Gregory Houser (Migrant Ed.), Anne Phillips (PTES), Linda Archambault (SPSV). We hope you have a long and successful career with SRCS. SRTA is appreciative of our new announced retiree: Andrew Jowers (MCHS). Thank you for your 21 years of service to the students of our district. We wish you a long and enjoyable retirement! SRTA acknowledges the resignation of another 5 members with 66 years of service: Rebecca Tock (SPSV), Leslie Thomas (HVES), Kathryn Koop (BHES), James Ronan (SRMS), and Samantha Alban (RVMS). 59 SRTA Members resigned this year. SRTA thanks you for your service to our students and district. We wish you well in your future endeavours. We welcome 7 new classified employees and one rehire. We bid farewell to one retiring classified member with 21 years of service and two classified resignees taking with them one year of experience. We thank them for their service to our staff and students and wish them all the best. CLICK READ MORE TO SEE THE ANALYSIS  Santa Rosa City Schools has made extraordinary measures to create equity for our students, but not so with income inequality for our staff. They are considering giving the superintendent a 17.5% increase over two years while teachers and site administrators will receive 7%. This is income inequality, and it is disgraceful. If 7% over two years is good enough for teachers and site administrators, then it should be good enough for the boss. In 2018-19, SRCS teacher salaries were 8.6% BELOW the state average (and healthcare was 61.5% below the state average!) The superintendent’s salary was AT the state average of $200k. If this salary increase is ratified, in 2020-21 SRCS teacher salaries are projected to improve to 5.9% BELOW the state average (but not healthcare); the superintendent salary is projected to be 12.9% ABOVE the state average. This, while dozens of our classified staff make less than $15 an hour, and Santa Rosa ranks among the five least affordable cities for teachers to live in the US (link). A budget is a values statement. Board members and district officials who support this inequitable salary increase should be ready to field tough questions about why they value the superintendent 2.5 times more than teachers and site administrators in future salary negotiations and School Board elections. What will they say if SRTA or CSEA asks for a 17.5% raise over two years, or asks for an immediate jump to 12.9% over the state average? SRTA and our community will be asking and watching.  Source: Sacramento Bee Search average teacher, superintendent pay for California school districts
SRTA encourages our members to speak out. Please email the school board and come to the school board meeting to express your concerns about this disproportionately large raise for the boss. All employees should be brought up to the state average as soon as possible and in a fair, honest, and equitable way raising all boats together. Please email the board and tell them what you think of the proposal. School Board -- Santa Rosa City Schools President Jen Klose: jen@kloselegal.com Vice President Laurie Fong: lfong@srcs.k12.ca.us Clerk Stephanie Manieri: stephaniemanieri@gmail.com Ed Sheffield edsheff5@gmail.com 707-694-3318 Texts welcome per June 12th board meeting Jill McCormick: jmccormick@srcs.k12.ca.us Omar Medina: omedina@srcs.k12.ca.us Alegría De La Cruz: adelacruz@srcs.k12.ca.us
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
Santa Rosa City Schools June 26, 2019 6:00PM 4:30 p.m. - Closed Session 6:00 p.m. - Open Session Santa Rosa City Hall - City Council Chambers 100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa. This meeting is also being conducted by teleconference at the following location by Director Omar Medina: 6261 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33140 4:30 pm Closed Session 6:00PM Open Session Please take time to review the following abbreviated version of the agenda. Click here to see the entire agenda. It has live links on many items with more information. If you want to comment on any items, email agendacomments@srcs.k12.ca.us. Please CC wearesrta@gmail.com on your comments. Regular meetings are televised on local cable channel 27 and re-broadcast the following Saturday at 7:00 PM and again Sunday at 9:00 AM. Videos of the meetings are also live-streamed and posted on the SRCS YouTube Channel. Link to livestream and videos of prior meetings C.9. Public Comment On Non Agenda Items SRTA members are invited to complete blue speaker cards to speak to the board for up to three minutes. Items not on the agenda are addressed at this time. Items on the agenda are addressed during discussion of the item, using the same blue card. Speakers are needed at the board meeting to put a face to the messages contained here. Please commit to attending a board meeting, and speaking to an agenda item that impacts you or your students. Speakers are most impactful when they are composed and reasonable. E. CONSENT ITEMS E.2. Approval of Personnel Transactions SRTA is appreciative of our new announced retiree: Michael Hernandez (SRMS). Thank you for your 14 years of service to the students of our district. We wish you a long and enjoyable retirement! SRTA acknowledges the resignation of another 9 members with 61 years of service: Amanda Lomeli (CCLA), Michelle Mazzeo (CCLA), Katelyn Keefer (RVMS), Carli Forchini (SRHS), John Hughes (SP Services), Jean-Cassien Arnaud (SRAC), Sherry Brady (HLEH), Natalie Fortier (ABLN), and Kevin McDonald (SRAC). SRTA thanks you for your service to our students and district. We wish you well in your future endeavours. SRTA wonders if SRCS has offered exit interviews to any of the 53 SRTA Members who resigned this year to find out why they are choosing to leave our district. We bid farewell to four classified resignees taking with them 4 years of experience. We thank them for their service to our students and wish them all the best. CLICK READ MORE TO SEE THE ANALYSIS |
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