Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Minutes For SSC Meeting LA High School Oct 2nd 2006

Minutes For SSC Meeting LA High School Oct 2nd 2006
4.30pm Title 1

Attending

Chair J TorresRangel (JTR)
Secretary Jon Mannion (JM)
Felecia Perez (FP)
Ena Cruz (EC)
Julieta Chavez (JC)
Tae Hwan Lee (THL)
Horacio Fuentes (HF)
Pamela Zapata (PZ)
Nayeli Garcia (NG)
Dr F Nishimura (FN)
Raul Fernandez (RF)
Brenda Pensamiento (BP) Title One


Motion to approve minutes by F Perez, seconded by Julieta Chavez
Minutes approved

Agenda item 1: RE A Track election and representation

FN outlines the procedure
R we gong to expand or what?

Motion to expand by 1 from each category. to 16 SSC from FN
Seconded by (THL)

Concern re quorum from FP

Concern for quorum from FN
Re iterates need for commitment, commends students.

Vote 7 for and 0 against
Abstaining 1

Agenda Item 2: Bylaws
BP outlines several handouts.
FP describes the blue folder with info re the responsibilities of the individuals of the group.

FP Bulletin of the State and Federal Law re SSC


BP SPSA Single Plan for Student Achievement
Updates are separate on a single sheet for update

SPSA is the doc that drives the expenditure.
BP reports that we are not due (According to Judy Morrow) as some schools are not due for 7 years. Thus we are not due to write our SPSA plan.

BP states that we need to UPDATE the plan in many areas.

BP the brown document a Resource Guide to support the writing of a SPSA. There will be a new edition in October/November

BR on www.cde.ca.gov on line is a guide for SPSA in Spanish. A file was passed to JM in English.
JM a link form the blog will be established.

FP Points SSC to Section E , especially monitoring the SPSA , re the SSC role as monitoring and Updating the execution of the plan and find out what is happening with the budget. What happens to that money if for example a project/programme is withdrawn?

ACTION POINT FN will verify and clarify re the status of our SPSA. Given that we have the word of Judy Morrow.

Agenda Bin
Motion by FP to examine
All Budgets for last year, all categorical funds. That this SSC has purview over.
Seconded by Pamela

FN link SPSA with the budgets.
Chair Asks to see range of budget.

FN asks for Susan Allen to be here and that G Strauther may not have finalized the spending of some parts of the budget.

FP asks for justification sheets as well as the budgets.

Discussion on Categorical and general funding sources.

Votes Unanimous passed.

Second Item: RE Bylaws
Chair question: re document from cde? How different is this document form our bylaws 2005-6 at LA High School?

Problems with the bylaws
1 No reference to SPSA in the purpose of bylaws
2. Signatures of SSC members for approval
3. Composition of the SSC has to change
4. 10 day notice to elections
5. ELAC has to be included
6. Quorum has to be 7 ( 9 later)
7. Parent election page 2 SSC line 3 para b. (BP) SSC NOT to oversee parent election.
8. GATE fund is part of categorical funds?

Bulletin

Next meeting

Budget: categorical, Title 1, GATE, and justification

High Priority and Title 1 only for
Motion by FN
Votes Unanimously passed.

Recommendation for a timer as Tae Hwang Lee

Meetings to start at 430pm and end at 600pm

Next meeting on October 16th 2006 at 430pm in Title 1

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