SRCS Board Meeting Agenda Analysis - 6/26/19

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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. 
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E.5. Approval of Contracts

Contract #
Provider
Cost
Description

Serving All Students


1
Barry Vejby
$5,100
Provide SLP services June-August 2019

3
SCOE
$4000
Transportation of Special Education students 2019-20

4
Concordia University
$0
provide student teaching, administrative or counseling practicum and experience to credential program students

5
School Loop
$18,751
Provide licenses for School Loop for 20 sites

6
Blackboard
$52,773
Provide mass digital communications for the district, website CMS

7
IJA Network Solutions
$57,397
Provide temporary staffing for an unfilled district IT position.

8
Sonoma State University
$0
provide student teaching, administrative or counseling practicum and experience to credential program students

9
University of San Francisco
$0
provide student teaching, administrative or counseling practicum and experience to credential program students

10
Cal State Sacramento
$0
provide student teaching, administrative or counseling practicum and experience to credential program students

11
SCOE
$0
Provide surveys for Special Services

14
Hansel Ford
$77,849
Two body work trucks

16
Carrina Hui
$27,000
Provide retreats for Teaching & Learning
/SAFE/Cabinet

17
Pocho Sanchez Digital Media
$5,000 or less
Photography and content for district communications






Serving Elementary Students


2
Theary Tran
$24,637
Art Enrichment for Helen Lehmen ES (site funds)











Serving Secondary Students


13
Matrix HG
$60,109
1 year rental of an HVAC system for Santa Rosa HS auditorium.

15
CJ Painting
$33,500
Clean and paint the Santa Rosa HS science building.

18
Social Advocates for Youth
$415,632 or less
Provide mental health services











Serving Charter Students


11
Jeannie Behr
$8,400
Art Instruction SRACS (site funds)






E.6. Approval of Assistant Superintendent Job Descriptions 



E.7. Approval of Job Description for Deputy Superintendent 


 
E.8. Approval of Job Descriptions for School Based Therapist-Trainee and School Based Therapist-Associate to Licensed 


SRTA agrees that with the huge increase of high level mental health crisis in the nation, our students and families are struggling and need the support of our district in hiring highly educated, trained, and certified professionals.  By offering low hourly wages and no protections of the occupation with tenure, we fear SRCS will meet the same failures and down falls that the current SAY program has experienced -- the exact reason why the district is letting the SAY program go. 
We recommend hiring Marriage Family Therapists interns who have a Masters in Counseling as certificated members.  

E.9. Adopt Proposed English Language Development Materials for Elementary Schools, K-6 

SRTA appreciates the efforts of Director Aracely Romo-Flores to include teachers from all elementary sites in the decision making process for the Elementary ELD curriculum adoption.

E.10. Adopt Proposed English Language Development Materials for Secondary Schools, 7-12 

Adopting an ELD curriculum with only a month to pilot a program is problematic. At the same time SRTA acknowledges the need for a program to be in place with the upcoming changes to ELD classes at the sites is critical and therefore we support this adoption. In the future we once again ask that SRCS take the time to make long term plans so that the district has time to make sure that the money they are spending is really in the best interests of our students. 

E.11. Approval of the Use of Piggyback Bids/Contracts (CMAS, NASPO, Co-Ops) for the 2019-20 School Year 



E.12. Approval of Purchase of Chromebooks As a Part of the social Science and Science Textbook Adoptions In Grades 7-12 

SRTA appreciates the district’s plans to include additional technology at the site level when adopting new textbooks.

E.13. Approval of the Carl D. Perkins Career Technical Education Grant Application 



E.14. Approval of the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Grant 



E.15. Approval of the 2019-2020 School Plans for Student Achievement (SPSA)

The supporting documents for the Elementary and Secondary SPSAs are 801 and 804 pages respectively, about 70 pages per school.  SRTA encourages members to look at their school’s report to learn more about their site’s goals to better serve their students. 


E.16. Approval of the Child Nutrition Services (CNS) Meal Contracts for the 2019-2020 School Year 



E.17. Formal Acceptance of Dependent Charter School LCAPs 



E.18. Approval of the Tobacco Intervention & Prevention Grant 

The job description of the SRTA position of TIP TOSA has not been negotiated with reference to hours, days and working conditions.  The job description indicates:

•  Hours may vary to meet district/school needs.
•  Some local and out-of-county travel may be required for the purpose of meetings, events and other activities.
•  May be required to attend evening meetings

These issues are set by our contract, and all new SRTA positions created by SRCS must follow contract agreements.

F. DISCUSSION / ACTION ITEMS

F.1. (Action) Adoption of Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) - Elementary District 



F.2. (Action) Adoption of Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) - Secondary District 



F.3. (Action) Adoption of Santa Rosa City Schools Budget for the 2019/20 School Year 

 

F.4. (Action) Oral Recommendation Regarding Superintendent Salary and Fringe Benefits; Discussion and Board Vote On Superintendent Employment Agreement

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, 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 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 both 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 an immediate jump to 12.9% over the state average? SRTA and our community will be asking.

Source: Sacramento Bee Search average teacher, superintendent pay for California school districts

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F.5. (Action) Oral Recommendation Regarding Assistant Superintendent Salary and Fringe Benefits; Discussion and Board Vote On Assistant Superintendent Employment Agreement (3 Agreements) 


F.6. (Action) Oral Recommendation Regarding Deputy Superintendent Salary and Fringe Benefits; Discussion and Board Vote On Deputy Superintendent Employment Agreement 


F.7. (Action) Approval of Amended Scheduled Management Salary Schedule for 2019-2020 



F.8. (Action) Approval of Letter of Intent for Request for Application; California Department of Education: Inclusive Early Education and Expansion Program 

SRTA supports applying for this grant “to expand preschool seats and to create greater inclusive services for students identified with disabilities.”