MINUTES
SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL MEETING
February 2, 2005
- Call to order—5:06 pm
- Flag Salute
- A quorum was confirmed.
- Members in attendance were: Parents— Ron Beilke, Aurora Villon,
Manuel Mejia, Sr., Marina Caballero, Anthony Soltero Students— Sean
Acuna, Stephanie Mendez, Fabricio Segovia Classified Staff—Vivian
Martinez, Tony Hernandez Certificated Staff—James Halley, Administration—Julie
Ellis, Priscilla Linares ELAC—
- Members who sent regrets: Parents—Maria
de Lourdes Baeza ELAC—Emelda Hernandez, Fernando Camarena Students—Brandon
Longoria Classified Staff— Certificated Staff— Dawn Hughey,
Carol Stella, Manuel Cruz, Marla Diaz
- Visitors in attendance: Raymond Chavez,
Alma Carr, Esther Mejia
4. Minutes confirmed with corrections
5. Student Reports—
- Events
i. Christmas
Tree Competition was December 15th; Seniors—1st,
Freshman—2nd, Sophomores—3rd,
Juniors—4th
ii. Powder
Puff—Seniors won
iii. Winter
Sports Rally was held—Math teacher Enrique Romero won Teacher of the Tri.
iv. ER
Pride Day was an enormous success—over 800 students participated
v. Winter
Formal was January 28th
vi. Academic
Decathlon was hosted by El Rancho on January 29th—Exec. helped
set up
- DAC—
- Esther Mejia attended the meeting
i. A
Power Point Presentation regarding SPSA was presented
- Special Ed.—Nothing to report
- Title 1—Nothing to report
- GATE—Nothing to report
- Administration—
- Presentation of SPSA
i. Council
would like to see more specific plans for parent involvement
ii. SPSA
was officially approved by the council
- ER Pride Day—Council would still like to donate a tree
- Principal Ellis will let the council know what kind of tree
- Scholarship/Fundraising
- Cell Phone Drive
i. There
is a 2-month turnaround for the money from the cell phones to be given
ii. People
are already donating the phones, and we need a place to store them immediately
iii. Frank
Moreno and Principal Ellis will discuss solutions
- Grant Program—
- Aurora Villon attended a grant writing Institute in Irvine
i. She
would like us to write a grant for the gymnasium
ii. She’ll
have more information and possibly ideas about where to go next at the next
meeting
- Public Comment—
- Mrs. Carr expressed concern about the cheerleaders at the girls’ basketball
games: She was at a game where she found that the cheerleaders were
not actually doing any cheers. As the cheerleaders are there to support
the team and boost enthusiasm for both the players and the audience,
if they are not doing that they are demoralizing team morale as well
as violating the policies of Title 9. The cheerleaders must begin performing
at all games they attend. Mrs. Carr expressed a willingness to go to
the school board again, but would rather this situation were taken care
of internally.
- Mrs. Carr also asked where the money collected for entrance to the
boys’ games was going, and whether there should be a charge to attend
girls’ games as well. She concluded that parents would not mind paying
to attend games.
- Agenda—
- An update on the Parent Project was requested; Brenda Rangel will
be asked to attend the next meeting in order to update the Council
b. The
next meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
- Meeting adjourned at 6:29 p.m.