Morgan Hill Unified School District’s staff and Board of Education will hold the May 12 school board meeting at Martin Murphy Middle School (141 Avenida Espana in San Jose) with closed session beginning at 4 p.m., followed by public session at 6 p.m.
MHUSD Trustee David Gerard previously requested one board meeting be held at Martin Murphy to better allow parents of students at Los Paseos Elementary School and Martin Murphy Middle School, as well as other stakeholders living in the south San Jose area, to attend.
The board meetings are regularly held at the district office on Concord Circle in Morgan Hill. Gerard also requested a future meeting be held at San Martin/Gwinn Academy for the same purpose. That date has not been scheduled.
Tuesday’s agenda (under a “personnel order”) unveils that MHUSD will start searching to fill a couple of key positions come mid-June with two administrators leaving the district: Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services Norma Martinez-Palmer, who is resigning from her post June 18; and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Arlene Machado is retiring after 30 years in education as of June 16.
Listed under general business as items to be discussed at the May 12 meeting include:
—An informational item has Karen Rezendez from the legal firm Lozano Smith giving an overview of The Brown Act, which covers legalities for holding open meetings;
—A request for approval of job descriptions for a “Vocational Technician” classified position and “Career/Job Training Coordinator” classified supervisor position; and
—Proposed revision to a board bylaw switching the meeting dates to the first and third Tuesday of each month rather than the second and fourth Tuesday.
Among the 25 items in the consent calendar (which are considered routine by the board and grouped into one single vote unless otherwise requested) are:
—$332,838 contract ($80,000 from Measure G and $252,838 from general maintenance funds) with Johnson Electrics for Paradise Valley Elementary School Fire Alarm;
—Approval of a three-year land lease agreement through June 30, 2018 with Santa Clara County Office of Education at San Martin/Gwinn Elementary for Odyssey Community School;
—Contract not to exceed $12,500, at $215 per hour, (from general fund) with School Services of California for facilitated self-study on Special Education;
—$2,900 with McCloskey Consultants to conduct a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment for the Peet Road Property. District staff “has continued to meet with Lupine Investors and representatives of the Borello family to acquire the Peet Road property,” according to the staff report on the agenda.
—$150,034 memorandum of understanding with SCCOE for 2015-16 annual services for “hosting and support of Quintessential School Systems (QSS/QCC) application, software package and network connectivity services.”
—$166,875 (from Measure G) agreement with HMC Architects for design of the Britton Middle School Transformation Project;
—$147,154.70 contract (from Measure G) with Circle C Electric for the Monterey site (now the Community Adult School) and Transportation Technology Implementation Project;
—$770,354 contract (from Measure G) with Johnson Electronics for Jackson Academy and Nordstrom Elementary School fire alarm upgrade project; and
—$399,748 contract with Premier Builders for P.A. Walsh Multi-use Modernization Project.
