Saturday, March 06, 2004
Monrovia SchoolLink Preview for Wednesday, March 10, 2004 meeting
This is the meeting to attend if you are interested in school maintenance and API results. The maintenance issue will be discussed in a study session and in the regular meeting. Also, a bit more on some fireworks that went off at the last meeting. (When the last issue went out I didn't really understand how many firecrackers were popping.)
~ Study Session 5:30 p.m.
The Board will review details and discuss with staff the documents and information supporting the formal facilities report, Agenda Item 7.7, on this Regular Meeting Agenda.
~ Regular meeting 7 p.m.
4.1 ~ The board will honor students for their success in the "CA Skills USA - VICA, Leadership and Skills State Championships," whatever that means. Whatever it is, it looks as if the students needed a pickup truck to bring home all their gold and silver medals - in photography, TV/video productions, automotive technology and culinary arts.
4.1.1 ~ The Board will recognize Charlotte and Lee Schamadan for their efforts in designing, producing and coordinating the fundraising for the State of the Schools report to the community. That was the slick magazine-like thing you got in the mail. In reading it, it seems to have be paid for mostly by private contributions, which is cool. I'm not sure I'd be happy if it was paid for by district funds.
4.2 ~ Public hearing for items not on the agenda. This is when you get to say whatever you please.
4.5.1 ~ The schedule for Spring 2004 K-5 Parent Teacher Conferences
5.1 ~ The district will accept "miscellaneous holiday decorations, wrapping paper, and greeting cards having a declared value of $11,696.96, received from Party City of Monrovia." Wow! sounds like a few tons of wrapping paper and greeting cards.
6.4 ~ Receive 2003 Academic Performance Index (API) Base Report. I get confused with all these official tests, but I think this is the biggie!
7.7 ~ The report on facilities that was discussed in the study session.
8.3 ~ A report on enrollment and staffing for 2004-05.
8.4 ~ Receive a Position Control Report for 2003-2004. A "Position Control Report," if you are not familiar with the term, is a report about the control of positions. Now you know as much as I do.
9.0 ~ Woo Hoo! Let's celebrate. The board is going to proclaiming March as "Arts Education Month," March 8-12 as Week of the School Administrator," and March 15-19 as "Adult School Week."
LETTER ~ I got a letter from Charlotte Schamadan who said she was surprised that there wasn't more about Cyrus Kemp. [My fault. I'm a bad editor.] She said "Cyrus Kemp walked to the front of the dais and talked with ... no, make that hollered at ... Kris Mariconda, and then proceeded around the back of the dais to holler at Louise Taylor. And, he continued hollering when he left the dais and went to the back of the room. He disrupted the proceedings and the speaker at the podium."
I checked the minutes of the meeting and found this (Usually minutes are kinda dry, but this was pretty spicy): "At this point in the meeting there was a disruption by Mr. Kemp who first spoke with Mrs. Mariconda about stopping the meeting because he believed it was a violation of the Brown Act to allow Mrs. Cornils to speak, then walked behind the Board table and approached the Superintendent forcefully voicing his opinion that allowing Mrs. Cornils to speak was a violation of the Brown Act. The Superintendent firmly responded that it was not a violation of the Brown Act, that he was interrupting the meeting unnecessarily, and directed him to take a seat in the audience. As Mr. Kemp walked from behind the Board table and toward the audience, he continued to direct comments loudly to Board President Sandford stating again that this was a violation of the Brown Act."
Whew! On occasion I've liked some of Cyrus' thoughts, so I hate to say this, but this sounds WAY over the top. Also, Cyrus, why in the world do you feel Adele Cornils' speaking to the board violates the Brown Act?
ON-LINE ~ Since other people have begun helping do the newsletter, I figured it wasn't fair for their work to build up my personal Web site, so all the new newsletters (beginning in 2004) are on-line at www.monroviaschoollink.com.
This is the meeting to attend if you are interested in school maintenance and API results. The maintenance issue will be discussed in a study session and in the regular meeting. Also, a bit more on some fireworks that went off at the last meeting. (When the last issue went out I didn't really understand how many firecrackers were popping.)
~ Study Session 5:30 p.m.
The Board will review details and discuss with staff the documents and information supporting the formal facilities report, Agenda Item 7.7, on this Regular Meeting Agenda.
~ Regular meeting 7 p.m.
4.1 ~ The board will honor students for their success in the "CA Skills USA - VICA, Leadership and Skills State Championships," whatever that means. Whatever it is, it looks as if the students needed a pickup truck to bring home all their gold and silver medals - in photography, TV/video productions, automotive technology and culinary arts.
4.1.1 ~ The Board will recognize Charlotte and Lee Schamadan for their efforts in designing, producing and coordinating the fundraising for the State of the Schools report to the community. That was the slick magazine-like thing you got in the mail. In reading it, it seems to have be paid for mostly by private contributions, which is cool. I'm not sure I'd be happy if it was paid for by district funds.
4.2 ~ Public hearing for items not on the agenda. This is when you get to say whatever you please.
4.5.1 ~ The schedule for Spring 2004 K-5 Parent Teacher Conferences
5.1 ~ The district will accept "miscellaneous holiday decorations, wrapping paper, and greeting cards having a declared value of $11,696.96, received from Party City of Monrovia." Wow! sounds like a few tons of wrapping paper and greeting cards.
6.4 ~ Receive 2003 Academic Performance Index (API) Base Report. I get confused with all these official tests, but I think this is the biggie!
7.7 ~ The report on facilities that was discussed in the study session.
8.3 ~ A report on enrollment and staffing for 2004-05.
8.4 ~ Receive a Position Control Report for 2003-2004. A "Position Control Report," if you are not familiar with the term, is a report about the control of positions. Now you know as much as I do.
9.0 ~ Woo Hoo! Let's celebrate. The board is going to proclaiming March as "Arts Education Month," March 8-12 as Week of the School Administrator," and March 15-19 as "Adult School Week."
LETTER ~ I got a letter from Charlotte Schamadan who said she was surprised that there wasn't more about Cyrus Kemp. [My fault. I'm a bad editor.] She said "Cyrus Kemp walked to the front of the dais and talked with ... no, make that hollered at ... Kris Mariconda, and then proceeded around the back of the dais to holler at Louise Taylor. And, he continued hollering when he left the dais and went to the back of the room. He disrupted the proceedings and the speaker at the podium."
I checked the minutes of the meeting and found this (Usually minutes are kinda dry, but this was pretty spicy): "At this point in the meeting there was a disruption by Mr. Kemp who first spoke with Mrs. Mariconda about stopping the meeting because he believed it was a violation of the Brown Act to allow Mrs. Cornils to speak, then walked behind the Board table and approached the Superintendent forcefully voicing his opinion that allowing Mrs. Cornils to speak was a violation of the Brown Act. The Superintendent firmly responded that it was not a violation of the Brown Act, that he was interrupting the meeting unnecessarily, and directed him to take a seat in the audience. As Mr. Kemp walked from behind the Board table and toward the audience, he continued to direct comments loudly to Board President Sandford stating again that this was a violation of the Brown Act."
Whew! On occasion I've liked some of Cyrus' thoughts, so I hate to say this, but this sounds WAY over the top. Also, Cyrus, why in the world do you feel Adele Cornils' speaking to the board violates the Brown Act?
ON-LINE ~ Since other people have begun helping do the newsletter, I figured it wasn't fair for their work to build up my personal Web site, so all the new newsletters (beginning in 2004) are on-line at www.monroviaschoollink.com.
Comments:
Hi Brad, I know this is an ancient post of yours-but do you have anymore information about Cyrus Kemp? Thoughts?
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