MINUTES
SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL MEETING
October 6, 2004

  1. Call to order—5: 11 pm
  2. Flag Salute
  3. A quorum was confirmed.
  1. Minutes were approved with the following exception:
  2. Ron Weston is the new 9 th grade dean.
  3. Student Reports—No students present
  4. DAC—No members present
  5. Special Ed.—Nothing to report
  6. Title 1—Nothing to report
  7.  GATE—Nothing to report
  8. Administration—Nothing to report
  9. Parent Project—
  1. Elections—
    1. Anthony Soltero (an incumbent) and Marina Caballero are the new members of the School Site Council
    2. Maria de Lourdes Baeza and Manuel Mejia, Sr. are the new Alternates
    3. Aurora Villon was elected the new chairperson
    4. Dawn Hughey will remain coordinator and vice-chairperson
    5. Vivian Martinez will act as secretary when Dawn Hughey is unable to take notes
    6. Frank Moreno is the new Parliamentarian
  2. Community members may be council members, but must be part of the composition of the parent portion of the council
  3. Fundraising—
    1. Julie Ellis was going to look into funding a School Site Council Scholarship through Activities—Priscilla Linares will look into this prior to the next meeting
    2. Ron Beilke and Manuel Cruz were nominated co-chairs for the SSC Fundraising Committee
    3. SSC will try to allocate funds for the new gym voted on during the last meeting and for scholarships—the committee will attempt to find grants for these purposes
  4. Bylaws—
    1. Having a chronic problem with DAC; nobody goes consistently because parents feel they are not active participants—that they are there just to listen
    2. Suggestions were made either to have parents alternate attendance of these meetings   or to have the minutes forwarded to the council for perusal
    3. Council voted to have the minutes forwarded.   Dawn Hughey will contact DAC to make this arrangement
    4. Bylaws will be left as an open topic at each meeting
  5. Suggestion made that Ray Chavez be a regular attendee of the Council meetings
  6. Parent Conferences are on Thursday, October 14 th
  7. Public Comment—none
  8. Agenda—
    1. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 3 rd  
  9. Meeting adjourned at 6:20 p.m.