The Santa Clarita Valley Scholarship Foundation (SCVSF) is responsible for selecting the scholarship winners. SCVSF Senior Sponsor Administrator Elaine Foderaro will be present this evening to speak.  As determined by the SCVSF, the $149,000 scholarship grant, $13,000 in accumulated interest, and $26,600 from unclaimed awards accumulated between 2009-2012 will be distributed as follows:

Comprehensive high schools: the distribution per site will be one scholarship at $5,000, two scholarships at $4,000, two scholarships at $3,700, two scholarships at $3,200, and one scholarship at $2,200 totaling $29,000 per comprehensive high school ($174,000 total for six comprehensive high schools).

Alternative high schools: Academy of the Canyons, Bowman High School, Learning Post/Hart @ Home, and Sequoia School will each have one $1,950 scholarship and one $1,700 scholarship ($14,600 total for alternative high schools).

The names of the recipients will be presented to the Board in June 2020, and the required report to the HMN Foundation will be forwarded before September 15, 2020.

New BP and AR 5022 – Student and Family Privacy Rights

New BP and AR 6142.7 – Physical Education and Activity

Revised BP and AR 5111.1 – District Residency

Revised BP 5112.5 – Open/Closed Campus

Revised BP and AR 5113 – Absences and Excuses

Deleted 6142.7 – Physical Education (Being replaced with BP 6142.7 Physical Education and Activity)

Suggestions for revisions may be made prior to the second reading and adoption of new and revised Board policies at the February 5, 2020, Governing Board meeting.

The District’s audit report has been filed with the appropriate state and local agencies, and is available to the public on the District’s website.

The audit was conducted by the accountancy firm of Eide Bailly LLP, and a representative from the firm will be available to present the report to the Governing Board at the meeting.

The 2018/19 Performance and Financial Audit was conducted by the accountancy firm of Eide Bailly LLP, and a representative from the firm will be available at the meeting to present the report to the Governing Board.

Government Code Section 66006(b) requires the District make a report available within one hundred eighty (180) days after the last day of each fiscal year detailing certain information on the collection and expenditure of reportable fees.  The District made this report, “The William S. Hart Union High School District Annual Reportable Fees Report for Fiscal Year 2018/19, in Compliance with Government Code Sections 66006 and 66001,” available to the public on December 17, 2019.

The attached report contains the requisite information and proposed findings concerning reportable fees pursuant to Government Code Sections 66006 and 66001.  Further, the District has provided notice of the time and place for this meeting, where the report will be considered for adoption, by mail at least fifteen (15) days prior to the Governing Board meeting, to any interested party who filed a written notice request.  The meeting notice has also been posted in the District’s regular public notice posting locations.

Change Order No. 4 for the Castaic High School Project from Castaic HS Construction, Inc., is presented for approval.

This change order contains two items that were added to the scope of the Castaic High School Project that are not reflected in the Guaranteed Maximum Price. The first item is the addition of a traffic coating application to cover surface blemishes inherent to the process of tilt-up-concrete construction in Building 200. The second item was the addition of a large area of concrete slab in a storage yard that was added next to the football/soccer field. The District also agreed to a credit for stamped concrete which offset the cost of the new concrete slab.

Ratification of a construction contract for the Sierra Vista Junior High School Punch-list Completion Project to the lowest responsive/responsible bid, Y.Ko. Construction Co., Inc., (Y.Ko.) is presented for award.

The final settlement between the District and Growthpoint Structures on the Sierra Vista Junior High School Classroom Addition Project did not include provision for Growthpoint to return to the project to complete unfinished items. Instead, District staff assembled the list of unfinished items and solicited quotes from contractors who could complete the work. The District approached three contractors and received two quotes. The lowest quote was from Y.Ko. Construction Co., Inc.

In order to complete the work prior to the start of the winter quarter, staff directed Y.Ko. to begin before the contract could be approved.

Before Mrs. Engbrecht retires, and before Mr. Kuhlman is officially employed as Superintendent, the District must prepare a proposed contract of employment with Mr. Kuhlman.  District staff desires that the Board appoint one or two Board members to a temporary advisory committee, which will be tasked with negotiating the terms of the contract with Mr. Kuhlman.  Upon completion, the committee will bring back a proposed final contract of employment with Mr. Kuhlman for the Board’s consideration and potential approval.

This agenda item asks the Board to discuss whether to create such an advisory committee and, if creation of the committee is desired, to appoint Board members to serve on the temporary committee.

Dear Martin – Publisher: Ember – Author: Nic Stone – Course Area: – Basic English 11  – Grade: 11 – Justyce McAllister is top of his class, captain of the debate team, and set for the Ivy League next year— but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. He is eventually released without charges (or an apology), but the incident has Justyce spooked. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood, he can’t seem to escape the scorn of his former peers or the attitude of his prep-school classmates. The only exception: Sarah Jane, Justyce’s gorgeous—and white—debate partner he wishes he didn’t have a thing for. Struggling to cope with it all, Justyce starts a journal to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But do Dr. King’s teachings hold up in the modern world? Justyce isn’t so sure. Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up. Way up. Much to the fury of the white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. And Justyce and Manny get caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it’s Justyce who is under attack. Some would kill to know the truth of what happened—Justyce is dying to forget.

Stealing Buddha’s Dinner – Publisher: Penguin Books – Author: Nguyen – Course Area: – English 9 / English 9 Honors  – Grade: 9 – As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food.  More exotic seeming than her Buddhist grandmother’s traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled “delicacies” of mainstream America capture her imagination.  In Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, the glossy branded allure of Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House Cookies becomes an ingenious metaphor for Nguyen’s struggle to become a “real” American, a distinction that brings with it the dream of the perfect school lunch, burgers and Jell-O for dinner, and a visit from the Kool-Aid man.  Vivid and viscerally powerful, this remarkable memoir about growing up in the 1980s introduces an original, new literary voice and an entirely new spin on the classic assimilation story.

I am Malala – Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company – Author: Yousafzai – Course Area: – English 9 / English 9 Honors  – Grade: 9 – When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out.  Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.  On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price.  She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.  Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York.  At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.  I am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

Pete Ciccone, a Canyon High School auto technician instructor, is requesting authorization to attend the ATech Training Instructor Workshop in Walton, Kentucky, January 27 to January 30, 2020, and the NC3 Train the Trainer instruction in Elizabethton, Tennessee, March 8-14, 2020.

All expenses for Pete Ciccone to attend the ATech Training Instructor Workshop in Walton, Kentucky, January 27 to January 30, 2020, and all expenses for Pete Ciccone to attend the NC3 Train the Trainer instruction in Elizabethton, Tennessee, March 8-14, 2020, will be paid from the Career and Technical Education Incentive Grant (CTEIG).

Approve Canyon High School teacher Pete Ciccone’s attendance at the ATech Training Instructor Workshop in Walton, Kentucky, January 27 to January 30, 2020; and approve Pete Ciccone’s request to attend the NC3 Train the Trainer instruction in Elizabethton, Tennessee, March 8-14, 2020.

Funding provided by Title IV, Part 2, provides support for safe and healthy students.  Mr. Kersting will present key points described in his best-selling book, Disconnected: How to Reconnect Our Digitally Distracted Kids,  including the impact of electronic devices on kids’ brains, technology’s effect on social, emotional, and family growth, and strategies parents can use to help their families unplug and grow closer as a result.

The School Site Council voted to review departmental requests for materials which would provide all students with problem-solving activities, high interest supplemental material, and cooperative learning opportunities in the classroom in order to provide an instructional program that can transform every student’s learning experience.

GoFormative is a web-based mathematics program for classrooms that allows teachers and students to interface through hands-on, engaging activities which can be stored for future collaboration and use among all of Golden Valley’s math teachers.  Teachers also have access to a library of common core standard assessment items and real world problems to develop a more contemporary approach to math testing.

In keeping with the District’s Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), schools align their SPSA goals with the four goals of the LCAP.

Each school site council has approved its respective School Plan for Student Achievement after consulting with required advisory groups and recommends it to the Board for approval.  All legal requirements have been met for each plan.  The annual evaluations will be conducted to meet the requirements of Board Policy 6190.

To facilitate implementation, Board approval is requested.

Analysis of each plan reveals necessary updates and revisions. Each school site council has approved the revisions, after consulting with school leadership teams and advisory councils, and recommends them to the Board for approval.  All legal requirements remain in place for each plan that was approved in June 2019. Annual evaluations conducted at that time meet the requirements of Board Policy 6190.

Attached are the revisions for the school plans of Hart High School and Bowman High School for the 2019/20 school year. Goals and action plans remain aligned with LCAP District goals and school goals for increased student achievement.

This report may contain open purchase orders with not-to-exceed amounts facilitating regular small purchases from single vendors. Open purchase orders with not-to-exceed amounts facilitating larger purchases from single vendors may indicate a publicly bid contract number and/or the date the Governing Board approved the vendor.  In an effort to efficiently process payments, the accumulated total of these purchases may be processed and paid as a single transaction.

The agreement is for the period of September 1, 2019, to July 31, 2020.  Either party may terminate the agreement with thirty (30) days prior written notice.

The District issued the following contracts for ASB activities or field trips between November 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019, at multiple school sites for activities including, but not limited to, field trips, back-to-school events, school dances, and portrait/yearbook agreements.

1. Lathe (QTY 1, Saugus High School)

2. Vibraphone (QTY 1, Rio Norte Junior High School)

The District currently accepts prequalification applications on a quarterly basis, and recently issued a notice inviting prequalification (RFQ1910A) for the October application period (October 1, 2019 to October 10, 2019).

The attached list reflects the addition of the contractors approved during the October 2019 application window.

The Governing Board is required to approve all contracts issued by the District.  The following contracts for miscellaneous facilities construction projects were issued between November 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019:

Accept Notice of Completion for Bid Package No. SV1801A-02 (K.A.R. Construction, Inc.) for the Sierra Vista Junior High School Classroom Addition Project.

A Notice of Completion has been prepared for the Governing Board’s consideration for the following construction contract:

K.A.R. Construction, Inc.

Bid Package No. SV1801A-02 – Site Concrete and Paving