Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District

Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District Facilities Committee

Minutes -Meeting at ACTON SCHOOL TEACHER'S LOUNGE Wednesday, March 23, 2005 -7:00 p.m.

1.0 OPENING OF MEETING Members Present Ron Bird yes Charles Brink yes Shauna Comber yes Cindy Gerlich no Larry Layton yes Sheryl Puett yes Ken Wipff yes Max Duran no School Board liaison

2.0 COMMITTEE OPERATIONS Mission: To best serve our student population, we will act as representatives of the community to recommend to the Board solutions for the improvement of district facilities. We will first focus on current problems and possible corrections and then on long-term challenges.

We agreed to provide our minutes/agenda to the District Office and request that they post the minutes online. Copies of the minutes/agenda also will be emailed to the Country Journal, the Acton-Agua Dulce News and to the Antelope Valley Press.

Motion by Shauna to: Appoint Chuck as Treasurer of the committee and Ron as Secretary of the committee. Seconded by Larry. Approved 6-0-1 We discussed the gym issue and the relationship with Title 24 Education Code and what bringing the gym up to compliance may or may not entail.

Shauna expressed concerns about the process of how to request information from the district. We agreed that funneling requests through the Superintendent is the appropriate option. The memo to the Principals regarding short-term facilities needs did not make it to them. We suspect this was either an oversight or that our request was not clearly made to the administration. Ken agreed to read the memo at the Board meeting and ask for concurrence in this request.

Ron mentioned that SB1469 certification requires that districts report their non-DSA approved relocatable buildings to the DSA. The district fulfilled this requirement and filed a report in the year 2000 that stated one building at Agua Dulce is not DSA compliant. The concern here is that all non-DSA compliant buildings need to be either brought up to DSA standards or removed from service by September 30, 2007.

Sheryl expressed that we should focus on short-term solutions first, and then move on to the longer-term issues and solutions.

The following major issues were identified as being items the committee should direct its attention to in future meetings (in the order brought up):

Completion of a permanent high school Either getting the Vasquez gym reopened or replaced Consider use of existing facilities to optimize our educational environment Consider reopening Acton School Facilities Philosophy (one issue: separation of general fund vs. facility funds)

Immediate term facility needs (one issue: no lunch room or library at Vasquez)

Mid-term facility needs (one issue: not enough classrooms at Vasquez)

Larry mentioned that we cannot run from political decisions. Reopening Acton needs to be addressed by this committee. Chuck concurred with this. Both Shauna and Sheryl said that committee should not get involved in the reopening of Acton School debate. They no not feel our time is not best served arguing political points, especially ones that are not productive.

Larry mentioned that a liaison with the related budget and finance committee was needed. Both Max and Larry have volunteered to assist regarding this coordination.

3.0 ADJOURNMENT Adjourned at 8:45 p.m.

Next meeting: April 6, 2005 at 7:00 PM at the Acton School Teacher's Lounge

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