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Site Council Minutes

Monday, January 08, 2007

Present:  Bonnie Bellows (staff, treasurer), Dave Mergens (staff), Joe Laconic (staff), Mike Sodomka (acting principal), Preston McMillan (staff, union), Lauren Rekonen (staff, secretary), Valerie Atkinson (non-teaching staff, co-chair), Tim Hausker (non-teaching staff), John Hines (parent, co-chair), Jennifer Purtell (parent), Sam Buffington (community), Saul Castillo (student)

Absent:  Kandy Hedlund (parent), Andy Mosca (parent)

I.                   Approval of Agenda:  Motion made by J. Hines.  Unanimously approved.

II.                Approval of December 11 minutes.  Motion made by D. Mergens.  Unanimously approved.

III.             Open Forum

a.       D. Mergens:  Steve Elizondo hit his hundredth win with boys basketball and Jim Olson will be among 10 individuals inducted into the Humboldt Hall of Fame.  Humboldt is starting an online school store, featuring Humboldt School Apparel. 

b.      S. Buffington: WSCO has a new board of directors.  WSCO would like to partner with Humboldt to raise awareness of the upcoming election, which features a school board election.  WSCO also has several committees, including a youth committee and an environment committee. 

c.       V. Atkinson:  MNSCU puts out a yearly publication about their system.  They will be coming here to film Valerie using their book.  Saul Castillo will be in the video. 

d.      S. Castillo:  ROTC raised 3,350 pounds of food in their food drive. 

IV.              Phase I Update: D. Mergens

a.       The bids for phase I (Humboldt Field Athletic Update) have gone out.  The contractors have been briefed about the project, and now we are waiting to hear what the bids are.  A letter is going out to our alumni soliciting people to donate $100 towards the $30,000 - $40,000 needed to put lines, numbers, and a logo on our field. 

b.      It is possible that next fall all of our sports will need to practice and hold their games off-site. 

c.       Motion to draft a letter of resolution to WSCO asking for funding support for the Humboldt Field Athletic Update made by M. Sodomka.  Seconded by J. Hines. Unanimously approved.  V. Atkinson and J. Hines will present this letter next month at WSCO’s February board meeting. 

V.                 Principals Report/Budget Review: M. Sodomka

a.       There was a violent attack near Johnson High School of a 13-year-old girl at 7:10 this morning.  A letter was sent home with all students describing the event and warning students to not travel alone until the attacker is apprehended.

b.      There was a fabulous band concert on December 20 with over 300 people in attendance. 

c.       The play, The Snow Queen, is here at 7:00 on Friday and 1:00 on Saturday. 

d.      The recruitment process is beginning.  A brochure of all WestSide Schools will be distributed.  There will be a showcase night of the school January 30.  There will be a parent fair at Roy Wilkins Auditorium on January 20.

e.       Capital bond proposal for Phase II must be in by February 9^th.  This will be a joint proposal from Humboldt Senior High, Humboldt Junior High, and the Office of Instructional Services. 

f.        BST testing is coming up at the end of the month.

g.       Conferences are on Tuesday, January 23 from 4:00 – 7:00 in the cafeteria. 

h.       The district will be having a strategic planning meeting.  The Superintendent has created a 20-page strategic place for SPPS. 

i.         Humboldt is looking for volunteers to share information about their careers on April 19^th for that month’s academy day. 

j.        The district has been asked to help to prepare our students for success on the MCA’s.

k.      Humboldt Jr. and Sr. were awarded around $90,000 to implement AP Math. 

l.         There was a School Quality Review team here the week before break.  They will be submitting their report to the Site Council and the School Board in March or April.  We will invite them to our meeting. 

VI.              SCIP Timeline: I. Moses

a.       3 goals: To align our SCIP with the Superintendent’s wishes, gather more input into the SCIP, and to make the document more of a living document throughout the school, meaning that we need to speak about the goals of the SCIP more often and align our instructional goals with the goals of the SCIP.  The final SCIP in due in early June.  There will be a draft ready in two months for the site council to review. 

VII.           New Business

a.       V. Atkinson:  In the five site council meetings left in this school year, we need to go through the principal hiring process.  We need to create a sub-committee and set an agenda for the process.   Community involvement (Sam Buffington), parents (J. Purtell and J. Hines), staff (union representative), staff (V. Atkinson) principal’s secretary (Sue Bobrowski), assistant principal (S. Aeilts or I. Moses) would be an ideal committee. 

VIII.        Adjourn:  Motion made by B. Bellows, seconded by J. Laconic.  Unanimously approved. 

Respectfully submitted, Lauren Rekonen

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