Leslie Woolley introduced Jerry Simmons and Lisa Corr.

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Leadership has put on a sexual violence prevention workshop. Last week courtesy of Sarah's recommendation we hosted a Giving Spirit CARD MAKING activity and so students came in and made cards and then drop them off at YMCA to be put in backpacks for homeless kids.  This week we have spiritual going on. Today was holiday holiday pajama day.  Yesterday was under 30 degree day people wore beanies and scarves, we had cookie decorating. Many competitions and so there's gift cards and next week we'll have is like a poll and everyone can vote on like the winner and then the winners, get a gift card. So that's really fun. There's a McConnell's ice cream fundraiser for sophomores. So if anyone loves in the Palisades and wants to support the sophomores. You don't have to be a sophomore. We have a student concern meeting tomorrow, A lot of people have questions, and we've learned a lot through meetings in the past week about what finals are really looking like this year.  And then we also have a student senate meeting tomorrow at 3pm. That's one student representatives from all the different English classes. come to zoom and we go over recent events. We have time for against you and concerns student conversation and good way to just connect with different groups of people. Freshmen we have new freshman class president Ryan Levy, who was elected last week, so he'll start his term in the spring and we'll have our new freshmen representatives and then next week and then we also have a Friday activity cahoot from 830 to nine. It's going to be with teachers new teachers old teachers and it's going to be good who using all of their like young photos and such be fun. 

It was agreed that Parent Board Member contact information would be shared with the PCHS community via newsletter distribution and via a directed email to the community parents.

No report at this time

Discussion regarding posted report and Stands as submitted.  Concerns regarding Learning Loss Mitigation monies will be referred back to Budget and Finance at their meeting on January 11, 2021.  Teachers continue to try to be inventive with the eLearning environment and have varied approaches.  B&F will take back up the LLM monies to see how the school can provide additional support to the teachers during remote learning.  Teachers were thanked by Dr. Magee for all that they are doing to support the students during this challenging time.

Report reviewed and A Nguyen confirmed that the New Hires submitted are replacing empty current PCHS employee positions.  A Nguyen also thanked all of the faculty participating on Saturday school for helping it to be such a success.  Report stands as submitted.

Report reviewed.  D Parcell further clarified that due to the recent COVID Safer at Home orders the school is trying to reduce the "footprint" of those who are on campus as much as possible that the school isn't "locked down".  Faculty who needs to come onto campus to pick something us have the ability to do so.  Remaining report stands as submitted.

P Magee reminded everyone that we are on LAUSD property and need to comply with their guidelines.  Legal counsel did clarify that PCHS could perhaps apply for waivers for some things at the request of the Board.  

D Parcell also clarified that devices which are at the end of their lease cycle do not need to be returned for approximately 2 months so there is time to figure out a collection plan in light of the COVID orders.  He also clarified that filming continues to be considered an essential business so this will continue on campus.

Reviewed and stands as submitted

Reviewed and stands as submitted.  It was clarified that the Seamless Summer Option Program also known as SSL will be on hold until the Safer at Home restrictions are lifted.  Students and their families can continue to receive meals with LAUSD Grab and Go programs throughout the county.

Report stands as submitted.  Dr. Magee stated that she is going to look very closely at information that's come from a state level from county and LUSD from all of the entities that are so involved in trying to make decisions that are going to be a keeping kids safe, but also with a real focus on how might we come back onto campus second semester so many unknowns.  We're trying all the steps in place to try to slow the spread, but also there's great encouragement for schools, not to make decisions yet about the full second semester looking toward possibilities of a vaccine and what that might mean for for mid semester.  A possible, whether it's hybrid return there that you know what that might look like.  We will certainly be working with our collective bargaining partners to develop what is that hybrid model, it's something that we have talked about and we will be working out a plan. But for now, we're also looking at things like the Friday schedule. We've got preliminary information from surveys. We've got some great ideas. We're looking at to pare that down and now that we have some very specific suggestions re survey our stakeholder groups to try to make some decisions and determinations. That would help us be better prepared for second semester. So that's information that will be forthcoming in the in a pretty near future. Again, we're just really wanting to make sure that we keep our campus safe, but also planning for what second semester might look like. Some great conversations about grading for equity and you're going to hear a little bit more about that with a presentation in a little bit, but it's very important conversations have gotten started not that this is the first time they've been discussed it Pali. One thing I want to remind people of I included in my report, a number of the various compliance reports that come up on an annual basis. We are fortunate we did a great job with our Accreditation six years. It wasn't a six year clear three years ago was when we actually submitted that but will actually be doing the midterm report the spring. We will be viewed filing a progress report on how things have been going for the past three years. And what we're trying to accomplish over the coming three years. Also re included our annual performance space oversight visit report. We're working with the charter school division from LAUSD on Friday to plan out our annual audit. Dr. Magee encouraged everyone to review these documents. They reveal so much about our school and how things work and how it works with our authorized her and as as the governing board. She emphasized the importance of reading the Charter and know those sections, but to look at this compliance review because one thing I will say about our authorizers is they are very thorough.  She is just encouraging folks to please look at the things that we have in place and then let's make some decisions about what we can do better. And we can really do a good job of celebrating what we do well because we do a lot of things really well at our school. 

That was well received and collaborative regarding discussions around the Friday schedule, which I think has already been discussed here multiple times. Further discussion now is being led between  UCLA and Dr. Magee and Chris Lee and others. regarding what can be worked out to potentially do a side letter to our mo you that would make adjustments to help students.  In terms of the timing, which we're trying to get done this semester. Ideally, but hopefully before school starts next next semester. And then the second issue. that was highlighted at the academic accountability committee was the review of our task in terms of what Dr. Magee was saying about how the school is getting reviewed. We need to make sure that our mission and our goals are in line with our budget and we're checking all the boxes in terms of putting resources towards crucial concerns and issues and priorities. So that was just an initial discussion and that will be followed up the January 14 the meeting and probably the next few months after that to make sure all stakeholders will have the ability to have input on our priorities.

Primary updates provided in CBO report.  Actuals are on target with approved budget.  Committee continues to look at long term spending projections for big "bucket" items.

Revised actuarial report was reviewed by committee at their Dec. 2020 meeting.  We had an updated actuarial report required to get those done every other year. So we had one at December of 2018 and an updated report was reviewed at the lifetime health benefits meeting.  In summary, our 2018 liability of 19 million has gone up to 21 million because we have been unable to fund this the past several years due to budget deficits.  We should be budgeting $691,000 annually to ensure that this is funded for eligible recipients.

Working on elections and committee positions for the spring 2021.

Discussed and stands as submitted

Presentation was given by T Christopher and S Burr.  Stands as submitted and they were thanked for their thoughtful approach in the presentation provided.

Reviewed and stands as submitted.

Deferred

Deferred

Item was discussed with legal counsel.  Committee structure of various committees was discussed.  PCHS policies and governance were reviewed. It was suggested that once the FPPC recommendations were received the Board can discuss and revise committee structure policies as needed per PCHS best practices.  Teachers and Dept. Chairs are continued to be encouraged to come and represent their needs at B&F as well as to provide individual needs/dept. needs in anticipation of every budget cycle.

Next Board Meeting January 12, 2021