I. ROLL CALL:

Present: Greg Boedecker, John Roberts, Deborah Romero, Whitney Ryan, Brenda Scholl, Irean Uriarte, Jesus Zepeda, Kim Zunino

Absent: Dale Borgeson, John Hall, Liz Bruns, Karen Fielding, Kathy Wallace, Gianna Hedin

II. ESTABLISHMENT OF QUORUM: Meeting was called to order at 4:07 p.m.

Quorum was established

III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Whitney Ryan made a motion to approve minutes with the following changes, repot to read report and chocking to read choking. 2nd by Irean Uriarte, all approved.

IV. COMMUNICATIONS: Dale Borgeson, Karen Fielding, and Kathy Wallace could not attend

V. REPORTS

A. Chairperson- Greg, no reports

DAC Representative-Kim King, Brenda stated that there was no meeting and that the next meeting will be in January.

Superintendent’s Comm. Council-Whitney Ryan Whitney reported that there was no meeting and the next meeting will be in January.

Student Council- Gianna was absent

B. Principal/Vice Principals-Dale Borgeson, John Hall/Brenda Scholl

ELL Report- The next ELAC meeting will be at the annex on Jan. 12^th.

GATE Report- Ms. Cushing is heading the McParland newspaper. The kids are really enjoying doing this. Jr. High has 50% of gate students in the Science Olympiad elective. There has been such a great response in 3-6 that they have had to turn kids away, because of not enough room. It was also reported that Mr. Cavanaugh is in charge of the Science Fair.

Tutoring Report-EL tutoring Tuesday, and Thursday 4-5 pm thru March 31^st there are 16 total students in grade 3-6. On Monday and Thursday mornings 2^nd grade is doing tutoring. Jr. High has tutoring on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. In the 4^th grade they are putting together a plan.

Review of School Plan- Brenda went over parts of the school plan. The budget from District will be in January. Brenda stated that they would like a chairperson from SSC to look at the school plan and review throughout the year. The Jr. High has been meeting with High School teachers to help with the transition from 8^th grade to 9^th grade. Irean gave Greg some information about Sierra High School and how they have a Peer Resource Counselor program. Greg seemed very interested; he is going to check with Ms. Mitzman who heads up the program at Sierra. Also, Greg suggested a family e-mail to send home information.

Discuss and approve 8^th grade graduation dress code- There was discussion about the dress code that would be for the 8^th grade graduates. Whitney made a motion to approve the dress code with the elimination of “dress up” in the wording. Irean seconded, all approved.

Approval of Superintendent’s Diversity Advisory- Winifred Blaylock has resigned as committee member on the Diversity Advisory Committee. Deborah Romero made a motion to accept Miesha Ames to replace Winifred, Whitney Ryan 2^nd and all approved.

VI. OLD BUSINESS

VII. NEW BUSINESS

VIII. ADJOURNMENT:

1^st- Whitney Ryan

2^nd- John Roberts

All approved meeting adjourned at 5:10

Submitted by,

Kim Zunino