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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, Asst. Supt./Business Services   Jeffrey L. Freiberg
Kerri M. Mills, Ed. D., Asst. Supt./Spec. Ed.   Laura Murphy
Brian Moran, Director of Maint/Operations   Brian Swartz

REGULAR BOARD MEETING AGENDA
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
CLOSED SESSION - 6:30 PM
PUBLIC SESSION - 7:00 PM

Mill Valley School District Administrative Office
411 Sycamore Avenue - Mill Valley, CA

"Our mission is to provide an excellent education that enables all students to achieve academic success and reach their full potential.
We prepare our students to be responsible, contributing members of our community and wise stewards of our natural environment."

Estimated
Time
6:30 A. CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL
B. CLOSED SESSION
Public Comment - Opportunity for public to comment on Closed Session items.  Information
Recess to Closed Session - Board to consider and/or take action upon any of the following.

CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR (Gov. Code §54957.6)
Agency Negotiator: Bill Kay
Employee Organizations: Mill Valley Teachers Association; California School Employees Association - Ch. 360.

Discussion/
Action
C. RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION & REPORT OUT
7:00 D. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Action

E. STUDENT MATTER

1.  Appeal of Denial of Interdistrict Transfer Request for M. Oliveira (8th)and J. Oliveira (4th) from Sausalito/Marin City School District to Mill Valley School District for 2004-05.  (Ms. Young)

Action
7:15 F. COMMUNICATIONS TO THE BOARD

Public Comment - This is an opportunity for the public to direct questions or comments related to school business to the Superintendent/Governing Board concerning matters not on the agenda.  No action can be taken by the Superintendent/Governing Board at this time.  Each speaker is requested to identify him/herself prior to addressing the Board and limit comments to three minutes.

Staff Reports

Information
7:30 G. STRATEGIC PLAN
Finance (Create long-term funding sources and ensure the continuation of fiscally prudent spending practices to enable the District to establish and maintain stability, security and the highest quality of education for the children.)

2.  Disclosure of Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Mill Valley School District and the California School Employees Association - Chapter 360 for 2003-04. (Mr. Khademi/Ms. Young/Ms. Harden)

Information

3. Public Hearing Regarding Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Mill Valley School District and California School Employees Association - Chapter 360 for 2003-04.  (Mr. Khademi)

Public
Hearing

4.  Ratification of Collective Bargaining Agreement with between the Mill Valley School District and California School Employees Association - Ch. 360 for 2003-04.

Action

5. Report on Changes to Health & Welfare Benefits.  (Ms. Harden)

Information
 
 

6.  Resolution #1-04/05: Resolution Electing to be Subject to Public Employees' Medical & Hospital Care Act Only With Respect to Members of a Specific Employee Organization & Fixing the Employer's Contribution for Employees and the Employer's Contribution for Annuitants at Different Amounts (certificated).  (Ms. Harden)

Roll Call
Vote

7.  Resolution #2-04/05: Resolution Electing to be Subject to Public Employees' Medical & Hospital Care Act Only With Respect to Members of a Specific Employee Organization & Fixing the Employer's Contribution for Employees and the Employer's Contribution for Annuitants at Different Amounts (classified).  (Ms. Harden)

Roll Call
Vote

8.  Resolution #3-04/05: Resolution Electing to be Subject to Public Employees' Medical & Hospital Care Act Only With Respect to Members of a Specific Employee Organization & Fixing the Employer's Contribution for Employees and the Employer's Contribution for Annuitants at Different Amounts (management/administrative).  (Ms. Harden)

Roll Call
Vote

9.  Resolution #4-04/05: Resolution Electing to be Subject to Public Employees' Medical & Hospital Care Act Only With Respect to Members of a Specific Employee Organization & Fixing the Employer's Contribution for Employees and the Employer's Contribution for Annuitants at Different Amounts (confidential). (Ms. Harden)

Roll Call
Vote

10.  Resolution #5-04/05: Resolution Electing to be Subject to Public Employees' Medical & Hospital Care Act Only With Respect to Members of a Specific Employee Organization & Fixing the Employer's Contribution for Employees and the Employer's Contribution for Retirees at Different Amounts (trustees).  Ms. Harden

Roll Call
Vote

11.  Resolution #6-04/05: Resolution Electing to be Subject to Section 22873 of the Public Employees' Medical & Hospital Care Act (domestic partners). (Ms. Harden)

Roll Call
Vote

12.  Resolution #7-04/05: Establishment of Special Reserve Fund for Post-Employment Benefits.  (Ms. Harden)

Roll Call
Vote
8:00 Educational Program ( Sustain, enhance, and continuously assess our educational program: curriculum, instruction, and the learning environment.)

13. Enrollment update. (Ms. Young)

Information

14. Update on proposed changes to District Kindergarten program: Park School modular classroom.  (Ms. Young)

Information/
Discussion
8:15 H. CURRICULUM & POLICY

15. Resolution #8-04/05 - Revise Holiday Dates for 2004-05. (Ms. Young)

Roll Call
Vote

16. BB 9270 - Conflict of Interest; Biennial Review of bylaw as required by State law.  (Ms. Young)

Action
8:30 I. PERSONNEL

17.  IT Manager Job Description.  (Ms. Young)

Action

18. Resolution #9-04/05 - Resolution for Preliminary Classified Layoff.  (Ms. Young)

Roll Call
Vote
8:35 J. BOARD REPORTS
8:50

K. MINUTES

19. Regular Meeting of June 16, 2004; Special Meetings of June 18, 2004 & June 24, 2004.

Action

L. 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.

Action

20. Warrants - These are the methods by which the District pays its bills.

21. Payroll Certifications - May 2004: Mid Miscellaneous, dated 6/17/04, for $7,068.31; June 2004: End of Month J-2, dated 6/8/04, for $459,731.72; End of Month J-3, dated 6/8/04, for $459,731.72; End of Month, dated 6/18/04, for $1,089,782.97; Mid-Summer School, dated 7/7/04, for $30,619.94; Mid Month, dated 7/7/04, for $36,679.68; July 2004: Mid, dated 8/9/04, for $45,988.98.

22. Personnel: Personnel Action Form #0405-1.

Interdistrict Transfer: Deny, due to lack of space, Employment-Related Interdistrict Transfer from San Francisco USD to MVSD, for M. Garcia (3rd) for 2004-05.

Gifts to MVSD: for benefit of OM, 16 Apple iBooks, from S. & K. Hagar.

9:00 M. ADJOURNMENT

Meeting posted August 20, 2004
Barbara B. Young, Superintendent

Board Meeting

Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 7:00 PM (NOTE DAY CHANGE)
Mill Valley School District Administrative Office
411 Sycamore Avenue - Mill Valley

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