School district officials have zeroed in on Blach Construction Company and Quattrocchi Kwok Architects for a $39.5 million contract to build the brand new Britton Middle School campus.
Now, they are asking for the board of education’s stamp of approval for the “design-build delivery method” entities to begin work on the estimated $50 million middle school positioned in the gateway to Morgan Hill just north of the downtown off Monterey Road.
At the June 6 meeting, the school board will hear from Morgan Hill Unified School District’s director of construction, Casino Fajardo, who will lay out the details of the new construction as well as the parameters under which Blach Construction and Quattrocchi Kwok Architects will work.
The seven-member board is expected to vote on the item at the June 6 school board meeting along with a host of other education-related items. Closed session will begin at 4:30 p.m. and public session will start about 6 p.m.
Also part of Tuesday’s agenda are the 2017-18 budget adoption, which has upwards of $90 million in expenditures; the Local Control Accountability Plan; and disclosure of the district’s $16.3 million in reserves.
Other items to be discussed publicly include: the superintendent and the assistant superintendents’ contracts, both proposed to run from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2021. Superintendent Steve Betando will earn a base salary of $262,890 with 3 percent annual raises with satisfactory performance evaluations by the school board, if the board approves the new contract June 6.
The school board will also give its own self-evaluation and approve committee, organization and liaison assignments for 2017.
Consent items
Items listed under consent are considered routine and are grouped into one single vote unless otherwise requested. Those items include:
• $749,000 contract (Student Nutrition Fund) with Gold Star Foods for the distribution of processed United States Department of Agriculture foods and commercial food products for 2017-18;
• $1,620,346 expenditure plan for Proposition 30 funds; and
• Three-year lease agreement with Morgan Hill Pony Baseball for use of Britton fields.
Personnel order
Another 16 certificated employee positions are being vacated for next school year with seven resignations, one retirement and eight end-of-contract designations on the June 6 personnel order attached to Tuesday’s agenda.
The personnel order also includes the appointments of Vincent Gutierrez to Coordinator of Equity Programs within the district office’s Educational Services Department and Shannon Rafat to the Elementary Assistant Principal for DIME at San Martin/Gwinn Environmental Science Academy.
