At this time, the District is requesting a provisional internship permit for Tyler Brandt to teach special education at Sierra Vista Junior High School (grades 7-8), effective August 5, 2019.

Many districts throughout the state are finding a need to request these waivers, especially in the area of special education.  At this time, the District has been unable to recruit an adequate number of speech and language therapists to meet its needs.  It is therefore necessary to submit a Variable Term Waiver Request to the Commission for Ariana R. Garrido to serve as full-time speech and language therapist to the District’s student population, effective August 1, 2019.

Change Order No. 3 for the Castaic High School Project from Castaic HS Construction, Inc., is presented for approval.

Item No. 1:

The artificial turf field for the school was not designed to the District standard. The contractor is requesting compensation to upgrade the field to meet District standards including a more durable curb, upgraded turf, and a shock absorbing pad (Brock pad) beneath the turf ($362,434).

Item No. 2:

The contractor is requesting additional compensation for providing and installing twenty five additional wireless access points (requested by District Technology) to provide complete Wi-Fi coverage throughout the campus ($71,104).

Change Order No. 1 for the Hart High School Infrastructure Phase 2B Project (Bid Package No. WSH1812A-01 – Taft Electric Company) is presented for approval.

Contractor is seeking compensation to upgrade an undersized pull box in the Main Electrical Room, cover costs to provide a 277/48 volt panel instead of a 120/208 volt panel, change breakers in Panels AB and T, and replace clay sewer pipe that was leaking under new electrical room.

Lundgren Management has thoroughly reviewed these change order requests and was successful in negotiating lower costs than originally requested by the contractor.

Several years ago, when the two-story classroom building was being designed, the electrical engineer of record included a single ceiling mounted projector in each classroom in the building (20 classrooms). Since that time, District Technology has upgraded the classroom standard to two 75” LCD TVs in each classroom. This change order is to upgrade the hardware and software of the AV system to work with the new configuration of two LCD TVs in each classroom.

$29,999 from Measure SA (Fund 21).

Fee Amendment No. 1 from Koury Engineering & Testing, Inc., for testing and inspection services for the Hart High School Two-Story Classroom Building and Related Site-Work Project is presented for approval.

During the past winter, the Los Angeles area had higher than normal amounts of rainfall. The rain contributed to a very wet site during a critical time when it was important to properly compact the building pad. Because of that, the geotechnical engineer had to make additional trips to the site to check compaction and to give the grading contractor direction. Koury Engineering & Testing, Inc., has depleted their fee and is requesting additional funds to complete their work.

Not to exceed $30,000 from Measure SA (Fund 21). Koury Engineering & Testing, Inc., will only charge fees for time spent on the project.

Approve Fee Amendment No. 1 from Koury Engineering & Testing, Inc., for testing and inspection services for the Hart High School Two-Story Classroom Building and Related Site-Work Project.

Change Order No. 1R for the Saugus High School Auditorium Project (Bid Package No. 6 – RND Contractors Inc.) is presented for approval.

This change order is a credit to the District to offset repairs done by other prime contractors for damage caused by RND Contractors Inc., compensation to the District for re-inspection fees, and returning unused owners contingency.

Change Order Requests for the Sierra Vista Junior High School Classroom Addition Project – Bid Package Nos. SV1801A-1 (Triangle Enterprises, Inc.), SV1801A-2 (K.A.R. Construction, Inc.),  SV1801A-5 (Fischer, Inc.), and SV1801A-7 (American Landscape Inc.) are presented for approval.

Bid Package No. 1, Change Order No. 4 (SV1801A-1 Triangle Enterprises, Inc.): $13,741.34

Contractor is requesting compensation for additional work requested by City inspectors and cost for loss of production due to unforeseen weather events.

Bid Package No. 2, Change Order No. 5 (SV1801A-2 K.A.R. Construction, Inc.): $15,038.15

Contractor is requesting compensation for work not shown on bid documents and for additional work requested by SCV Water District.

 Bid Package No. 5, Change Order No. 5 (SV1801A-5 Fischer, Inc.): $657.76

This change order includes several miscellaneous items that are due to incomplete bid documents. The change order also includes the cost to complete work that was supposed to be completed by GrowthPoint Structures.

Bid Package No. 7, Change Order No. 1 (SV1801A-7 American Landscape Inc.): $27,025.36

This change order includes several miscellaneous items that are due to incomplete bid documents, additional work adding irrigation and hydro-seeding in areas not shown on bid documents and returning unused allowance.

WLC Architects and TELACU have thoroughly reviewed these change order requests and were successful in negotiating lower costs than originally requested by the contractors.

All the Light We Cannot See – Publisher: Simon & Schuster– Author: Doerr – Course Area: – AP Literature – Grade:12 – All the Light We Cannot See is a novel written by American author Anthony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014.  It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.  Set in occupied France during World War II, the novel centers on a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths eventually cross.  According to AP® Central: An AP English course in Literature and Composition should engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students should deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students should consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.

Beloved – Publisher: Vintage International– Author: Morrison – Course Area: – AP Literature – Grade: 12 – Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–65), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Sethe, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. Morrison had come across the story “A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child” in an 1856 newspaper article published in the American Baptist and reproduced in The Black Book, a miscellaneous compilation of black history and culture that Morrison edited in 1974.  Beloved begins in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the protagonist Sethe, a former slave, has been living with her eighteen-year-old daughter Denver.  Sethe’s mother-in-law, Baby Suggs lived with them until her death eight years earlier.  Just before Baby Suggs’ death, Sethe’s two sons, Howard and Buglar, run away.  Sethe believes they fled because of the malevolent presence of an abusive ghost that haunted their house at 124 Bluestone Road for years.  The story opens with an introduction to the ghost.  The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award.  It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey.  A New York Times survey of writers and literary critics ranked it the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006.  The book’s dedication reads “Sixty Million and more”, referring to the Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the Atlantic slave trade.  According to AP® Central: An AP English course in Literature and Composition should engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students should deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students should consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.

Alvaro Roque, an English teacher at La Mesa Junior High School, is requesting authorization to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) at Work Institute by Solution Tree conference, in Bellevue Washington, September 22-25, 2019.

Jerry Ostrove, a practical arts teacher at Valencia High School, is requesting authorization to attend the EDUCAUSE Annual IT/Cyber Security Education Conference, in Chicago, Illinois, October 14-17, 2019.

All expenses for Alvaro Roque to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) at Work Institute by Solution Tree conference in Bellevue, Washington, September 22-25, 2019, will be paid from Title I funds.

All expenses for Jerry Ostrove to attend the EDUCAUSE Annual IT/Cyber Security Education Conference, in Chicago, Illinois, October 14-17, 2019, will be paid from Career Technical Education funds.

Kendall Hunt Publishing Company will print the District’s Biology Reader.  The agreement with Kendall Hunt includes basic editing tasks, correction of errors and typos, perforation of all pages, printing the text in four colors, and providing a soft book cover. The Biology Reader will be produced and printed in two segments; one for the fall semester and one for the spring semester. Kendall Hunt will produce 3500 texts for each semester.

Analysis of each plan reveals necessary updates and revisions.  Each school site council has approved its 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 May 2017.  Annual evaluations conducted at that time meet the requirements of Board Policy 6190.

Attached are the revisions for the La Mesa Junior High School plan for the 2017/18 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.

Interface charges will continue through 2021/22, when LACOE expects to have fully implemented its BEST Project.  The BEST Project is LACOE’s effort to procure a new, integrated financial and human capital management system to replace the current HRS and PeopleSoft Systems.  In November 2016, the Governing Board authorized the District to enter into an agreement to return to full-use of the County’s systems upon completion of the BEST Project.

This agreement reflects the District’s continuing status as an interface district for the 2019/20 fiscal year (effective July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020), and may be amended by mutual written consent or terminated by either party with thirty (30) days advance written notice.

The term of the agreement is for the 2019/20 school year.  The following schools will be included in the agreement: Canyon High School, Castaic High School, Golden Valley High School, Hart High School, Saugus High School, Valencia High School, and West Ranch High School.

Suzan Mansfield would like to present Bowman High School a check for $500 for student scholarships.

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union would like to present Bowman High School a check for $400 for student scholarships.

Staples would like to donate school supplies for homeless students.

Furniture Now would like to donate two couches to the Canyon High School Wellness Center.  The value of donation is $1898.00.

1. Student tablet arm chair (QTY 112, Academy of the Canyons)

2. Student combo desk (QTY 195, Sierra Vista Junior High School)

Pursuant to California Education Code Section 17546(c), staff requests the Governing Board, by unanimous vote of those members present, find that the property listed below is of insufficient value to defray the costs of arranging a sale and thereby authorize the property to be donated to a charitable organization deemed appropriate by the Board, or disposed of in the local dump.  All e-waste will be collected and certified to its proper disposal by an e-waste recycler.

1. Overhead projector (QTY 1, Placerita Junior High School)

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

3. Overhead projector (QTY 5, Hart High School)

4. DVD player (QTY 3, Hart High School)

5. VCR (QTY 3, Hart High School)

6. Drums (QTY 11, Sierra Vista Junior High School)

Academy for Advancement of Autism, Chatsworth, California
Academy for Advancement of Autism, Lancaster, California
Almansor Academy, Pasadena, California
Alpine Academy, Salt Lake City, Utah
Aspen Ranch, Loa, Utah
Benchmark, Woods Cross, Utah
Bridgeport School, Sherman Oaks, California
Casa Pacifica, Camarillo, California
Cathedral Home for Children, Laramie, Wyoming
Charis Youth Center, Grass Valley, California
Chileda, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Cinnamon Hills, St. George, Utah
Colorado Boys Ranch, La Junta, Colorado
Copper Hills Youth Center, West Jordan, Utah
Coutin, Canoga Park, California
Devereux Cleo-Wallace, Westminster, Colorado
Devereux Georgia, Kennasaw, Georgia
Devereux Florida, Viera, Florida
Devereux Texas Treatment Network, League City, Texas
Diamond Ranch Academy, Hurricane, Utah
Elliot Institute, La Crescenta, California
Excelsior Youth Centers, Aurora, Colorado
Family Life Center, Petaluma, California
Frostig School, Pasadena, California
Heartspring, Wichita, Kansas
Heritage Schools, Provo, Utah
Hillsides, Pasadena, California
Island View Academy, Syracuse, Utah
Lakemary Center Inc., Paola, Kansas
LeRoy Haynes Center, La Verne, California
Liahona Academy for Youth LLC, St. George, Utah
Linden Center, Los Angeles, California
Logan River Academy, Logan, Utah
Monarch Center for Autism, Cleveland, Ohio
New Haven Youth & Family Services, Vista, California
New Haven Residential, Spanish Fork, Utah
Normative Services Inc, Sheridan, Wyoming
North Hills Prep School, North Hills, California
Northpoint School, Northridge, California
Oakgrove School, Ogden, Utah
Oak Grove Institute, Murrieta, California
Parkhill School, West Hills, California
Piney Ridge Treatment Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Red Rock Canyon School, St. George, Utah
River Stones Treatment Services, Redlands, California
San Diego Center for Children, San Diego, California
Sequel, Prescott, Arizona
Shiloh Treatment Center, Manvel, Texas
Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Stem3 Academy, Sherman Oaks, California
South Bay High School, Torrance, California
Summit View School, Valley Glen, California
Sunrise School, Sherman Oaks, California
Tobinworld, Glendale, California
UHS of Provo Canyon, Orem, Utah
Valley High School, North Hills, California
Villa Esperanza, Pasadena, California
Village Glen, Sherman Oaks, California
Walden School, Framingham, Massachusetts
Waterfall Canyon, Ogden, Utah
West Ridge Academy, West Jordan, Utah
Westmoreland Academy, Pasadena, California
Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch, Billings, Montana
Youth Care, Draper, Utah

Beynon Sports Surfaces, Inc.

Track Replacement

Accept Notice of Completion for Bid Package No. 6 (RND Contractors Inc.) for the Saugus High School Auditorium Project.

RND Contractors Inc.

Bid Package No. 6 – Structural Steel