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Seattle School Board Meeting, January 3, 2018

Here's the agenda

Just to note, if you want to speak, sign-ups start at 8 am on January 1.  Yes, January 1.  I suspect it will be a rather full speakers list.

Highlights:

• There is just one Action Item - the resolution against the City giving Green Dot charter schools zoning departures for a school near Aki Kurose and Rainier Beach High School.
• There are 17 (!) Introduction items including yet another discussion of HCC pathways and high school boundaries. Oddly, no BAR attached so I'm not sure exactly what they are working off of.  (Buckle up: it's going to be a bumpy night.)
• One item is buying more portables.

Currently, there are 271 portables at 54 school sites. Of those 271 portables, 82 portables are older era portables.

This year’s growth forecast translates into a projected need for a minimum twenty-six (26) new homerooms in portables, and possibly as many as thirty-four (34) across the district. Eleven (11), and possibly as many as nineteen (19), portable classrooms will be purchased and provided as new classroom modules under this contract. These will be installed at four (4) or more different sites. In order to accommodate this uncertainty, we anticipate awarding the contract for a minimum number, with the right to add up to eight (8) additional modules no later than April 5, 2018 on a unit price basis.

Relocation of fifteen (15) existing portable classrooms will be provided under the separate contract K1304.

Hmm, "growth forecasts" have not been so great as of late.  What makes the district sure now, given this investment.  I could see it if they said for capacity management now but this appears to be based on forecasting.

• Another item is a "gift" from John Hay PTA for over $250,000 (they did snag a couple of City grants) for a new playground area.  

To date, John Hay Partners Board in partnership with the John Hay Elementary Foundation (Partners Board) have been awarded two City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Matching Funds grants totaling $50,000 to develop a conceptual master plan design and construction documents. The Partners Board has applied for a King County Youth and Amateur Sports Grant. Also, the Partners Board intends to apply for city of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Matching Funds for a Community Partnership Grant, and a number of other grants. Currently, the Partners Board is selling donor pavers, boulders and benches, which will be incorporated into the project. Other methods of fundraising are occurring, including a lemonade stand by one industrious student. 

The cost estimate for Phase 1 of the John Hay Playground Improvements project is between $250,000 and $340,000, dependent on the extent of fundraising before intended start of construction. The project will reconfigure the expansive grass play field, which currently encompasses the east half of the John Hay playground. The project will vastly increase Physical Education and play options, as shown in the Attachment depicting Phase 1 improvements.

Upon completion, the project will become the property of the District, thus it is a “gift” to the District.

The Racial Equity Analysis tool was not utilized for this project. John Hay’s enrollment includes approximately 42% students of color.

A big shout-out to the John Hay Elementary community for this hard work of looking in all directions for dollars and working to raise money on their own.  Thank you.  I'll say it even if the BAR doesn't.  I point this out because, if you read the BAR, this is not just playground equipment and will benefit PE for the school including any disabled staff or students using a wheelchair.  This is a tremendous boon to the district.  (Yes, I know there is inequity in that many other elementaries do not have the know-how or time to do this kind of fundraising.  I also note that staff didn't use the Racial Equity Analysis tool.  I think the Board should ask for guidelines as to when staff will or will not be using the tool because when they do, it's quite the stick.)

• As well, the district is spending $4M for an 18 acre parcel on MLK, Jr. way for transportation housing.  Reading the BAR, it sounds like a good idea but when I see this:

The cost of the real property is expected to be totally offset by these savings in under a 6-year period.

Well, I've heard that before about the JSCEE and that hasn't worked out well at all.  This purchase is being done with cash,  not bonds, but I hope the Board asks for a yearly documentation that the district is saving the money.

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