A father came to speak about concerns about the dyslexia evaluations about his son a 5th grader. 

T. Levine Hall advised there are a very high percent of students who have IEP's here in the school however most schools do have high percentages.  He advised at the end of the 22-23 school year there were 68 students with IEP's and this year there will be 106.  

AoA has held or scheduled all 504 meetings.  

J. Hughley advised that the case managers are very accessible to them. 

D. Forbes asked how does the SELPA support AoA now?  T. Levine advised that there are new staff members and it is less helpful than before.  When discussing current support services being provided, A.  Price asked how the 20 mins of support per month helps a student, and  T. Levine Hall advised that recommendation came from the prior school.  T. Levine advised parents felt they had more advocacy in their services and requests and are coming here more often.  A. Price asked if any of the funding comes from the county.  C. Chilcott advised that the "A Better Way" counseling is funded by a county grant.  D. Forbes asked how many student with IEP's have siblings and how many are from Alameda.  T. Levine Hall said he will have to look it up.   C. Robie said at one point in time we used to could advise what services would could and could not support here and asked if we can still do that.  T. Levine Hall advised we now advised what we do offer to them instead of saying what we cannot do.  C. Robie asked if we can reject a child with an IEP.  C. Chilcott advised we cannot skip anyone in the enrollment and waitlist process, so if we stop one then we cannot accept any after them either.  C. Chilcott also reminded everyone that right now sibling enrollment (Alameda siblings first, out of district siblings second) have priority over individual Alameda students.

C. Chilcott advised that even though it is required that for TK students to be potty trained more and more are needing to be supported due to accidents, and staff needs to be trained to provide diaper duty. C. Chilcott used that as an example of a $500 stipend she would like created for extraordinary duties that fall outside the staff job description. The board wanted to know who approves it, if it is ED or supervisor. C. Chilcott said the ED approves these stipends. The board agreed to the stipend with the stipulation that the purposes of the stipends are annually reviewed by the board.  

Deferred until next board meeting.

Finance-  D. Forbes advised they continued to discuss next years budget.

Student Success Committee-  no meeting, no comment.

Governance Committee-  revised 2 policies which will come to the board in January.  Focus will be on board recruitment.  K.  McCoy asked if students will be on the board and A. Price advised that is on the table as a possibility.  

PTSA work group met on Monday and having a hard time filing officer positions, which are 3.