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District Office Administrators Mill Valley School District Board of Trustees
  411 Sycamore Ave. Mill Valley, CA 94941 Monib Khademi, President
Barbara B. Young, Superintendent http://www.mvschools.org Paula Reynolds, Vice-President/Clerk
Laurie Harden, Chief Business Official   Jeffrey L. Freiberg
Kerri M. Mills, Ed. D., Assoc. Sup't./Spec. Ed.   Len Gensburg
Brian Moran, Director of Maint./ Operations   Brian Swartz

REGULAR BOARD MEETING AGENDA
Wednesday, October 8, 2003
CLOSED SESSION - 6:00 PM
PUBLIC SESSION - 7:00 PM
Mill Valley School District Administrative Office
411 Sycamore Avenue - Mill Valley, CA

"Our children are a community treasure.  Educating and nurturing them is our responsibility and our contribution to the future"

Estimated
Time

6:00
  1. CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL - (Board President)
  1. CLOSED SESSION
    1. Public Comment - Opportunity for public comment on Closed Session items.  Information
    2. Recess to Closed Session - The following closed session items are listed below in compliance with Government Code Sections 54854.2 and 54954.5 of the Brown Act.
      1. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINTMENT (Gov. Code §54957)
        Title: Principal
      2. CONSIDERATION OF STUDENT MATTERS (Ed. Code §35146); confidential information
      3. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS (Gov. Code §54957)
        Titles: Superintendent; Chief Business Official
7:00
  1. RECONVENE & REPORT OUT
  1. APPROVAL OF AGENDA - Action
  1. SPECIAL RECOGNITION (Young)
  1. COMMUNICATIONS TO THE GOVERNING BOARD
    1. Opportunity for Public comment on any item of interest to the public that is within the Board's jurisdiction will be heard.  The Board cannot take action on items presented during this time.  The Board requests that each speaker identify him/herself prior to addressing the Board and limit comments to three minutes.  Public comment will also be allowed on each specific item prior to Board action.
7:15
  1. PERSONNEL
    1.  Appointment of Park School Principal.  (Young)  Action
7:20
  1. BUILDINGS & SITES
    1. Renaming of Mill Valley Middle School Teaching Marsh to Elizabeth Terwilliger Marsh.  (Young)  Discussion/Action
7:30
  1. BUSINESS & FISCAL
    1. Disclosure of Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Mill Valley School District and the Mill Valley Teachers Association.  (Harden)  Information
    2. Public Hearing regarding Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Mill Valley School District and the Mill Valley Teachers Association.  (Khademi) Public Hearing
    3. Ratification of Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Mill Valley School District and the Mill Valley Teachers Association.  (Young) Discussion/Action
8:00
  1. TRUSTEE SELECTION  (Khademi)
    1. Candidate Interviews.  Information
    2. Appointment of Trustee for 4-Year Term beginning December 5, 2003.  Discussion/Action
9:15
  1. STAFF & BOARD REPORTS - Information
9:30
  1. MINUTES- Regular Meeting of September 10, 2003; Special Meetings of September 19, 2003; September 22, 2003; and September 30, 2003.  Action
  1. CONSENT AGENDA - Items listed under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine and are acted upon by the Board of Trustees in one motion. There is no discussion of these items prior to the Board vote unless a member of the Board, staff or public request specific items be discussed and/or removed from the Consent Agenda. It is understood that the Administration recommends approval on all Consent Agenda items. Each item on the Consent Agenda  approved by the Board of Trustees shall be deemed to have been considered in full and adopted as recommended.
    1. Warrants: These are the methods by which the School District pays its bills.
    2. Payroll Certification: September 2003 - End of Month, dated 09/23/03, for $1,067,289.94; End of Month Miscellaneous, dated 09/30/03, for $1,461.24.
    3. Personnel
      1. Increase Administrative Assistant, Student Support - Middle School, from 7.0 to 8.0 hours per day, effective October 13, 2003.
      2. Personnel Action Form #0304-04.
      3. 1.6% salary increase for 2003-04, retroactive to July 1, 2003 for contracted district-level administrators (B. Young, Superintendent; K. Mills, Ed.D, Associate Superintendent; L. Harden, CBO; B. Moran, Director of Maintenance & Operations); and confidential and other non-represented employees.
      4. Resolution #4-03/04 - Certificated Assignment Authorization.
      5. Intent for MVSD to participate in PERS Two Years of Additional Service Credit window period from  November 19, 2003 to May 11, 2004, contingent upon Marin County Board of Education notice of intent to grant the designated window period at its October 14, 2003 meeting.
    4. Business: Resolution #5-03/04 - Adoption of the "Gann" Limit.
    5. Agreements 
      1. Skate Park Lease Agreement with City of Mill Valley.
      2. Student Teaching agreement with UC-Berkeley for 2003-04.
    6. Gifts: Acceptance, with gratitude: for benefit of TV, $27,700 for various programs & services, from TV PTA; for benefit of OM, additional $9,810 for 2003-04 Classroom Teachers' stipends, from OM PTA.
9:30
  1. ADJOURNMENT

Meeting posted October 3, 2003
Barbara B. Young, Superintendent

Important Dates

State Staff Development Day - Monday, November 10, 2003 - NO SCHOOL
Veterans' Day Holiday - Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - NO SCHOOL

Board Meeting - Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Mill Valley School District Administrative Office - 411 Sycamore Avenue - Mill Valley

Visit our District website for all Agendas and Minutes:  www.mvschools.org