Panetta lecture series. Before we begin, i want to first ask that on this memorial day, we have a moment of silence in honor of all those men and women who have died while serving in the United States armed services. Thank you. This season we are discussing the health of american democracy, and it is very fitting that we recognize the individuals who have given their greatest sacrifice for our freedom and our way of life. We honor their commitment to country. Our guests in our discussion this evening are particularly fitting for this holiday because tonight we will conclude the 2019 lecture series by looking back to the founding of our nation and to the men who first took up arms to fight in the name of liberty and give birth to our republic. In the wake of victory, they understood that they had to create a system of government that would preserve and protect the values for which they had fought. What were their motives and intentions . Asking this question, it is important to recogniz
How did this particular structure evolve . We talked about this and what some of the features that were problematic to the district. That if we were going to make any changes like splitting up the reserve, wed also change the first and foremost of those changes regarding the lay offs. For that matter, allowing the majority to change the conditions. Those actually came from the controller as well through sort of a brainstorming discussion and, you know, i think those are those would be very favorable to the district so i was happy to agree with those suggestions on his part. I think those are the two ideas that he proposed, which made a lot of sense to me. As far as the [inaudible]. Right, its really a reflection of the current charter language, which separates the amount that can be appropriated to the district to 25 percent of the balance of the reserve. I just wonder if that president fewer maybe was joking, but maybe not. I mean, maybe now im thinking that could we present Something
Much restrictions for how they could take it out, its been growing so that 25 percent, once weve established our eligibility for that certain year has been a lot and certainly in the years we were most desperate because with the budget issues, so i dont why should there be a restriction on how much we could take in one year . I do understand that should this language as proposed go through, we could change that rule 2 3 of the board could change that rule so maybe we want that limitation of 50 percent in any one year because its sort of a its kind of a restriction on us that keeps us sort of actually having a Rainy Day Fund ourselves, saving it because budget problems dont tend to happen only in one year. Unless we do it to ourselves, but for actual revenue problems are cyclical so, you know, we dont want to spend the whole thing one year if we might need it the following year. I appreciate youre saying that, that came from the controller, but now that were talking about it, its raisin
School feeder pattern and staff was very hard to look at a granular level at the number of Seats Available to determine that the middle school feeder could be at the Everett Middle School and Daniel Webster would be at james lick and we heard very positive reception of these feeder pat erns. Er earns. Patterns feature meetings the next meeting will be scheduling in the fall. Report from the [inaudible]. Commissioner maufus. Thank you. So we had an action item in support of the update for to our student handbook regarding the appearance so i had mentioned earlier we had sent that forward with a positive recommendation. We also had a presentation on our School Quality improvement system, which was always going to be a standing item on the Curriculum Committee agenda. And it really is just we have submitted elementary secondary education act request to extend that skwool Quality Improvement system into and beyond 2014 into and beyond the 2014 school year and it was signed by all of the di
Parallel. In other words, we apply, but also run this through the various committees and have our decisions and if for some reason we decided we werent interested we would withdraw our application. Were not sure were still working on it and the feasibility of getting it in, but i think thats no problem of referring it to the committees. Do we have consensus about that . We will hear this in the committee, but the district will pursue this grant opportunity, paralleling our authorization process. Commissioner i dont have any reservations for applying for taking advantage of this opportunity, so i would assume move for a waiver on approval on First Reading if thats allowed. You would have to post that in the agenda and it wasnt posted in the agenda. Could we just bring it down for second reading at the meeting without it going to committee . A we we could do that and still hear it in committee. We could hear it in two weeks, but do you need to have direction now . I think i heard some di