El Camino Real Charter High School
Board Meeting
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Agenda
| I. | Opening Items | |
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Opening Items
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| A. | Record Attendance and Guests | |
| B. | Call the Meeting to Order | |
| C. | Pledge of Allegiance | |
| D. | Teacher/Student Presentation | |
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Teacher Pricila Chavez Lara invited her class to perform Mariachi music.
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| E. | Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items and Agenda Items | |
| II. | Consent | |
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Audit Committee
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| A. | Review and Vote April 20th Regular Board Minutes | |
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Staff recommends approval.
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| B. | Review and Vote for April 26th Special Board Minutes | |
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Staff recommends approval. |
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| C. | Review and Vote April 29th Special Board Minutues | |
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Staff recommends approval. |
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| D. | Vote Additional Excess Liability Insurance | |
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Staff recommends approval. Since ECR has multiple reserves going, additional excess liability will provide security for those reserves. The excess liability will increase from $30MM to $55MM. This will put ECR more in line with other school districts. |
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| E. | Review and Vote Educator Effectiveness Funding Expenditures Plan | |
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Staff recommends approval. ECR received $228K for staff professional development. This plan was presented and discussed at the April Board Meeting.
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| F. | Review and Vote March Check Register | |
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Staff recommends approval. March credit card statement is included in review. |
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| III. | Governance | |
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CEO Support And Eval
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| A. | Update: Teacher & Community Representative Candidates Introduction | |
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Four candidates are running for the upcoming teacher and community representative spots.
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| B. | Committee and Board Updates | |
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Board election update. |
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| C. | Discuss and Vote Creating a Committee to Look into School Psychologist Hours | |
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Staff recommends approval to create a committee. |
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| D. | Discuss and Vote Elimination of Administrator School Credit Cards for Personal Use | |
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Staff recommends approval. The CBO's credit card will remain, since it is stored in the safe and used by the staff for business use only. The executive director's and assistant principal's card will be cancelled. The only remaining credit cards will be used by staff people for use in their classes. |
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| IV. | School and Policies | |
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Development
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| A. | Review and Vote We Can Work Program w/Department of Rehabilitation | |
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Staff recommends approval. Sharon Lenderman would oversee the program. Contracting with the California Department of Rehabilitation,The We Can Work program subsidizes 20% of her compensation, and provides compensation to 20 special education students per year with 100 hours of minimum wage work experience. The students would be paid through the school for services at other companies, which Lenderman will partner with, facilitate placement of students, and monitor hours and work habits. School will then invoice the state for reimbursement. After 100 hours, the company can decide whether to hire the student directly.
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| B. | Vote the CBO as the Financial Designee of the We Can Work Program | |
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Staff recommends approval. |
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| C. | Update: Local Control Accountability Plan | |
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Alternative Education Assistant Principal and Director of Sustainability will go over the un-finalized draft of the LCAP for approval at the regular June Board Meeting.
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| D. | Update: Western Association of School and Colleges (WASC) | |
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Alternative Education Assistant Principal will update the board on the status of WASC. |
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| E. | Discuss and Vote Cancelling Travel to the National Charter School Confernence in Tennessee | |
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Staff recommends approval. This is not a boycott of the National Charter School Conference. The recommendation is to not spend state and federal funds in Tennessee for passing a law that allows discrimination against persons who are normally protected in the state of California. By cancelling the trip, the school will seek refunds; however, it will likely absorb losses from lost registration fees (up to 80% of $575 for 7 participant), hotel deposits ($243 for Hilton Garden Inn) and out-of-pocket expenses (TBD, but probably less than $1K total) from staff.
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| F. | Discuss and Vote Collection and Disbursement of Individual Scholarships | |
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Staff recommends approval. The student store will collect and disburse individual scholarships for ECR students from outside contributors. These contributions will not be considered donations to the school. No funds will come out of general funds. No "thank you" fundraising letters will be provided.
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| G. | Review and Vote Public Record Act Policy | |
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Staff recommends approval. |
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| H. | Discuss and Vote Extending Staff Contracts Another Year | |
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Staff recommends approval. Prior to the end of each school year, new staff contracts are provided signatures. This will extend all contracts another year.
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| I. | Review and Vote MOU for Early Retirement from ECRA (UTLA Staff) | |
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Staff recommends approval. This will generate a savings from retiree benefits and/or staffing cost differences. |
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| J. | Review and Vote 2016-17 School Calendar | |
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Staff recommends approval. |
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| K. | Update: Administrator's Report | |
| V. | Financials | |
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Facility
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| A. | Review and Vote Contract for an Outside Investigator | |
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Staff recommends approval. There were transactions approved by the purchase authorizers of the school that need to be reviewed. The outside investigator will provide an independent review of these purchases. |
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| B. | Review and Vote Charter School Fund Distribution View Rights | |
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Staff recommends approvals. Allows EdTec (e.g. Chang Patel and Milada Rakijian) to receive ECRA's electronic warrant backup from LACOE. |
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| C. | Discuss Changes to Fiscal Policies | |
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Addressing new changes to the fiscal policies. |
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| D. | Review and Vote Lost Receipt Form | |
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Staff recommends approval. This updates the current lost receipt form that ECR was using. |
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| E. | Discuss and Vote Replacing Yvonne Halski as Custodian and Check Signer with David Hussey | |
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Staff recommends approval. This would be for Charles Schwab and Hanmi Bank accounts where Yvonne Halski was the check signer. |
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| F. | Review and Vote 2016/17 ECRA Budget Submitted to LAUSD | |
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Staff recommends approval. Chang Patel from EdTec will present. |
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| G. | Update: March Financial Update by EdTec | |
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EdTec is ECR's back office provider. They perform some compliance functions and compile the school's financial reports.
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| H. | Update: Business, Technology, Development and Compliance Report | |
| VI. | Other Business | |
| A. | Future Agenda Items | |
| B. | Closed Session | |
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| VII. | Closing Items | |
| A. | Adjourn Meeting | |