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November 14, 2018 – Regular Board Meeting

Agenda FINAL Post
Regular Legislative Session
November 14, 2018, 4:15 p.m.

Board of Directors
2445 – 3rd Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98134
206-252-0040
www.seattleschools.org


I. Call to Order – 4:15 p.m.

  1. General Welcome Announcement to Audience
  2. Roll Call
  3. Pledge of Allegiance

II. Student Presentations – 4:30 p.m.

  • Chief Sealth High School – Folklorico Dancers

III. Superintendent Comments – 4:45 p.m.  

IV. Board Committee Reports

V. Student Comments

  • Roosevelt High School

VI. Business Action Items – 4:55 p.m.

A. Consent Agenda    

  1. Minutes of the October 22, 2018 Work Session , the October 29, 2018 Work Session , and the October 30, 2018 Regular Board Meeting.
  2. Personnel Report
  3. Warrants Report – October

October 2018 Warrants

FundPaid toAmount

General Fund

*Payroll

$1,423,957.96

 N/A

Vendor

$21,776,907.71

Capital Project Fund

Vendor

$20,344,309.88

Associated Student Body

Vendor

$245,119.17  

Expendable Trust FundVendor$17,750.00

Grand Total

 N/A

$43,808,044.72

*Note – Payroll total reflects warrants issued to employees. It does not however, reflect cash transfer amounts in payment of employees’ Direct Deposit payroll.

B. Items Removed from the Consent Agenda

VII. Public Testimony – 5:30 p.m.

NameTopic

1. Evan Dembowski

Roosevelt High School student speaker

2. Allyson Sofronas

Lincoln High School K-12 Language Immersion regarding Japanese

3. Chris Jackins

Resolution 18/19-9 Certification of Excess Levies; Final Acceptance
Olympic Hills; SAP Software Agreement; Durham Contract Bus Transportation
Services

4. Sarah Igawa

Keeping Beacon Hill at Maple

5. Charles Anthony Burrell III

Maples Elementary Boundary Change

6. Elizabeth Kelly

Keep Beacon Hill at Maple

7. Heidi Wrightsman

International Schools, Dual Language immersion, and the completion of high
school NW and SE pathways

8. Katie Page

Japanese dual language immersion pathway and plan for Lincoln High School

9. Stephanie Phillips

Japanese Language at Lincoln High School 

9. Ross IshikawaJapanese language immersion program at Lincoln High School
10. Karen WilliamsEnsuring Japanese classes are offered at Lincoln High School when it opens
in 2019
11. Edith SzaboImmersion program at Lincoln High School
12. Aminah AdamsEthnic Studies for RBHS and renovation
13. Karen SchwartzbauerProposed lack of Japanese teacher for Japanese DLI students at LHS
14. Melissa WestbrookRobert Eagle Staff Middle capacity problem
15. Clint BerquistProposed Maple Boundary changes and how they would impact Georgetown 
neighborhood
16. Nile KurashigeFunding for Japanese in the new Lincoln High School
17. Nidhi AgrawalLincoln Japanese dual language immersion program
18. Pam ChinKeep Beacon Hill at Maple
19. Erika Kinno Japanese immersion pathway
20. Mia Kinno Japanese immersion pathway

Wait List

NameTopic

1. Karin Collinsworth

Japanese at Lincoln High School

2. Philip Petty

Enrollment at Lincoln High School

3. Runa Matsuo

Importance of offering a k-12 Japanese pathway and Lincoln
High School to hire a Japanese teacher

4. Laura Leahy

Japanese language classes must be offered at Lincoln High School


VIII. Board Comments

IX. Business Action Items (Continued) – 6:30 p.m.

C. Action Items

  1. 2018-2019 Collective Bargaining Agreement between Seattle Public Schools and Seattle Education Association (SEA) Certificated Non-Supervisory Employees, Paraprofessional Employees, and Seattle Association of Educational Office Employees (Exec, Nov. 8, for approval) Approval of this item would approve the 2018-19 Certificated Non-Supervisory Employees; the 2018-19 Paraprofessional Staff; and the 2018-19 Seattle Association of Educational Office Professionals Collective Bargaining Agreements with the Seattle Education Association and authorize the Superintendent, on behalf of the Board of Directors, to execute the agreements in the form attached to the School Board Action Report. (Introduction & action)
  2. Resolution 2018/19-9, Certification of Excess Levies and Calculation of General Fund Levy Rollback for 2019 (A&F, Nov. 5, for approval) Approval of this item would make certifications to the county legislative authority, as required by state law, for the purpose of levying district taxes, budgets or estimates of the amounts to be raised by taxation on the assessed valuation of the property in the district.(Introduction & Action) (attachments updated 11/14)

D. Introduction Items

  1. Amending Board Policy No. 1010, Board Oversight of Management (Exec, Nov. 8, for approval) Approval of this item would amend Board Policy No. 1010, Board Oversight of Management, to adjust required reporting timelines. Four oversight areas would be reviewed each year, with the Superintendent and Executive Committee working together to identify reporting areas. Oversight Areas are also revised to align with the present organizational structure.
  2. Amend and rename Policy No. 2090, ‘Program Evaluation & Assessment’ to ‘District Educational Research & Program Evaluation’ and approval of 2018-19 District Educational Research & Program Evaluation Work Plan (C&I, Nov. 6, for approval) Approval of this item would makes edits to Board Policy No. 2090, Program Evaluation & Assessment, to reflect changes to the District’s approach to program review and evaluation, as well as to remove assessment language from Policy No. 2090 that is covered in Board Policy No. 2080.
  3. Approval of annual SAP Software Maintenance and Licensing Agreement (Ops, Nov 1, for approval) Approval of this item would authorize the Superintendent to execute a one-year agreement extension with SAP in the amount of $340,916.14 to provide enterprise and Business Systems Incorporated (BSI) software support from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019, in the form of a Purchase Order dated September 19, 2018 and presented to the School Board, with any minor additions, deletions, and modifications deemed necessary by the Superintendent, and to take any necessary actions to implement the contract.
  4. BEX IV: Final Acceptance of Contract P5049 with Cornerstone General Contractors for the Olympic Hills Elementary School project (Ops, Nov. 1, for approval) Approval of this item would accept the work performed under Contract P5049 with Cornerstone General Contractors for the Olympic Hills Elementary School project as final.
  5. Approval of Contract SS11822, 2018-2019 Bus Transportation Services (Ops, Nov. 1, for approval) Approval of this item would authorize the Superintendent to execute contract SS11822, for School Bus Transportation Services for 2018-2019 with Durham School Services (Durham), Inc. in the form of the contract agreement and attached to the School Board Action Report, with any minor additions, deletions, and modifications deemed necessary by the Superintendent, and to take any necessary actions to implement the contract.


X. Adjourn – 8:30 p.m.

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