Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education and district leadership will gather Feb. 7 for its only regular school board meeting this month.
General discussion topics slated for discussion include restorative justice, teacher recruitment, new school accountability and the governor’s proposals for the 2017-18 state budget.
Closed session is scheduled to get started at 5 p.m. inside the district headquarters (17600 Concord Circle), with public session expected to follow at about 6 p.m.
After the board tackles existing litigation and land acquisition negotiations that fill the closed session agenda, trustees are expected to recognize the local chapter of the American Association of University Women for organizing the annual Wildflower Run, which raises close to $50,000 per year going toward college scholarships for local students.
The board is then set to vote on a number of items under the agenda’s consent calendar, which are considered routine and are grouped together in one single vote unless otherwise requested. Some of those items are:
Citizens Oversight Committee member appointments
Albert Beltran, as an at-large community member; John Horner, as a business representative; and Brad Ledwith, as a taxpayer organization member, were the three members appointed to the Measure G Bond Citizens Oversight Committee, according to the Feb. 7 agenda.
Horner and Ledwith are re-appointments who have served previous terms on the committee.
District staff reviewed applications it received and selected the trio to join the existing members while serving a two-year term through February 2019.
Peet Road elementary school project
District staff is requesting an additional $75,000 contract (via capital facilities fund) with Cleary Consultants, Inc. for work on the Removal Action Work Plan for the proposed elementary school to be built on Peet Road in northeast Morgan Hill.
Cleary was already under contract with the district. The extra services include “additional character sampling of the site in order to provide a supplemental site investigation to the (Department of Toxic Substances Control) with the data gathered and revise the draft Removal Action Workplan to include the additional testing,” reads the agenda item’s rationale.
Site work at El Toro Health Science Academy
District staff is requesting renovations to El Toro Elementary School, which gained board approval at the Jan. 17 meeting to become a health science focus academy, and is seeking board approval for a $48,000 contract (via one-time discretionary funds) with Weston Miles.
The project is “to renovate the library building at El Toro Elementary School into a science lab to support the new health science focus,” according to Feb. 7 consent item.
The work also includes “relocating the library to a classroom and creating an open workspace by connecting the Library, adjacent classroom, and adjacent breakout spaces into one large room that will provide a dedicated instructional space as well as a large lab area for activities and experiments.”
Plan for new Britton Middle School project
After a unanimous vote by the board last month, district staff is requesting a resolution approval that will signal the go-ahead for the “design-build delivery process” for the design and construction of the new Britton Middle School.
The resolution “authorizes the use of the design-build delivery process and establishes the framework for the procurement and selection process,” according to the agenda consent item.
Other consent items
• $16,800 contact (via deferred maintenance) with Verde Design for the resurfacing of the Live Oak High School tennis courts;
• $15,000 contract (via one-time discretionary) with Keyser Marston Associates for employee housing feasibility study; and
• $33,230 for special education services for the 2016-17 school year.
