Minute for Dec 2, 2006 BCS board meeting

 

Date:      Dec 2, 2006

Time:     9:30 pm

Place:     Morrill Middle School - Youth Center Office

 

Attendance:

Principal

Y

Ben Li

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vice Principals

Y

Johnson Kou

Y

YF Wong

 

 

 

 

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Liaison

Y

Oliver Wan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Secretary

 

Chao-yi Lang

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mandarin Instruction

Y

Wendy Hsieh

Y

Shujen Liu

Y

Berlin Wei

 

Julie Chou

 

 

Cantonese Instruction

Y

Ken Chiu

Y

Kernix Ly

 

Elean Ng

Y

Oliver Ma

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Cultural Instruction

Y

Hua-Ching Su

 

Olivia Deng

Y

Linh Liao

 

Hua-Ching Su

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Activity

Y

Willis Dair

Y

Pablo Chu

 

Ken Ta

Y

Adam Au

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Finance

Y

Kim Kuan-Louie

 

Wendy Lee

 

Amy Sheen

Y

Richard Chen

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Human Resource

Y

Jimmy Lo

Y

Tim Chung

 

 

 

 

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Registration

Y

Amy Shiue

Y

Maggie Chen

 

Della Lui

 

Farrah Pang

 

 

Campus Manger

Y

Daniel Loy

 

Brenda Wong

 

Chou Chi Chin

 

 

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Principal Emeritus

Y

LP Shen

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Advisors

Y

Albert Ko

Y

Simon Chu

 

 

 

 

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Others

Y

Julia Tai

 

 

 

 

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Board member attendance: 24/35

Non-member attendance:         1

1.      Call to order. Quorum established at 9:40 pm

2.      Approval of last meeting minute

Approved unanimously

3.      Approval/Addition of Agenda Items.

Added 5.2 IT Group Formation

Added 5.3 Custodian hours

Approved unanimously

4.      Unfinished  Business

4.1 Newsletter ads policy

Regarding extra ¡§insert¡¨ ad in Newsletter, Oliver Wan suggested the max be one 2-sided page and requires principal & vice-principal approval. Liangping suggested a line be included in newsletter saying the insert is ads. Ben re-asserted that first priority is for school communication, not advertising.

 

4.2  Teacher approval
Teachers need to be approved by the board, according to the by-law. The teacher list was distributed by Jimmy. Modification: C11 teacher quitted and replaced by Rossanna Chen (¿¤p¬Â).

Hua-ching had concerns on some inexperience teachers. LiangPing expressed that it is a coaching issue and is not directly related to teacher approval process.
Approved: yes ¡V 24; no ¡V 0; sustain ¡V 1.

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5.      New Business

5.1 financial report (Kim)

Kim presented the financial snapshot as of 11/30/2006. (Daniel) CD earning will be come in by Jan ¡¥07. (Oliver Wan) script is not making as much money as before. (Kim) we might need to review the effort/income ratio for script.

 

5.2 IT group formation (Ben)

BCS used to have an IT team under registration. We might need new infrastructure to handle IT work. Ben would like to appoint Chao-yi to lead IT group with help from Simon, Tim & Pablo. Hua-ching volunteered to help. This year¡¦s goal for IT is to complete web maintenance transition from Simon to the new IT team. (Liangping) Suggestion on IT should be sent to the IT team.

 

5.3 custodian hours (Johnson)

BUSD changed custodian working hours on Saturday. According to what we heard from custodians, it is 8-9am and 11:30am to 4:30pm. That is, there will be no custodians between 9am to 11:30am. The new hours are not very convenient for BCS, though the extra clean up time would be helpful. Also, the new schedule is 6 hours instead of the 5 hours specified in our lease contract. Ben & Johnson would talk to BUSD to see if it can be changed to at least covering up to 9:30am before the break. It would be preferable to stay at the current 5 hour schedule.

 

6.      Departmental Reports

6.1.      Principal (Ben)

¡P         ANCCS principal tea party in BCS YC last month. There were 40 people attended. Many principals exchanged their ideas.

¡P         Attended AP Chinese meeting. Minute distributed during meeting.

¡P         Newsletter production guidelines in progress

¡P         New elected BUSD board of trustees are Linda, Kensen & David Cohen.

6.2.      Activities (Willis)

¡P         Talent show next week

6.3.      Administration (Liangping)

¡P         Culture shows from Taiwan will be held again this year.

6.4.      Youth Center (Simon)

¡P         Guidelines are being developed.

6.5.      Culture (Hua-Ching)

¡P         11/18 culture teacher meeting. Attendance was not so great.

¡P         Proposed the weekly class Liaison newsletter be forwarded to culture teachers.

¡P         Printed weekly news now forwarded to culture teachers.

¡P         Ben reported that one culture teacher would like to claim SDI (short-term disability insurance). BCS does not need to be directly involved. Just provide paperwork. Teacher can contact Kim directly for inquiry.

6.6.      Mandarin (Wendy)

¡P         One more projector to be purchased.

¡P         Curriculum newsletter to be forwarded to Simon (for board access)

6.7.      Campus (Daniel)

¡P         Things going well in Morrill office. Linda & Kensen visited Morrill office and greeted parents. Bread & coffee is served and parents are participating.

6.8.       (YF)

¡P         Thanks Wendy for test paper

6.9           (ken)
Talent show Sierramont next week. Week after next: Morrill

6.10        Administration (Johnson)

¡±         Piedmont gate open late last week. It was a communication problem between BUSD & custodians. Emergency BUSD contacts to be sent to all campus managers so that we can react quicker in the future.

¡±         Notified day school to update their bells schedule.

7.      Other Business:

7.1.      Registration planning should be started soon for CP & CSL/SM.

7.2.      Board meeting minutes open to public
Some parents suggested publishing the board meeting minutes to all parents. The consensus is to post the minutes on the web and possibly some extra printed copies in office.

8.      Meeting adjournment (11:30 AM)