Burbank Unified School District Board Meeting Preview

ON THE AGENDA

The following items are scheduled to be discussed at Thursday's school board meeting:

TEXT BOOK ADOPTIONS

District staffers and faculty will present the board with textbooks for high school chemistry, advanced placement government, Regional Occupation Program sports medicine and anatomy and physiology. Board members will consider if the texts should be approved for the 2007-08 school years.

Teachers of the classes along with Jan Britz, assistant superintendent of instructional services, will present the texts an reasons the board should select them.

The textbooks will be available for public review at the district offices through July 5.

WHAT TO EXPECT

The board will hear about the texts but will take no action.

ELIMINATING CLASSIFIED JOBS

Board members will consider eliminating five classified, part-time district positions.

The positions are currently vacant and Assistant Supt. of Human Resources Services Gabe Soumakian's recommendation for closing the positions has been discussed with a representative from the California School Employees Assn.

Four of the five instructional assistant positions being eliminated due to lack of funds, and another is being considered based on lack of enrollment, according to a district report.

WHAT TO EXPECT

The board will likely approve these eliminations asit has in the past.

BURBANK HIGH CENTENNIAL WEBSITE

The board will consider approving a contract for website-building services. Burbank High School will celebrate its centennial anniversary in 2008 and the high school's centennial committee would like a website to help commemorate the event.

The contract will be with L.A. Web Builders for July 1 through June 30, 2008.

The cost is not to exceed $9,920. The website would serve as a place for the sale of tickets and receipt of donations for events.

It would also include an online store, alumni area, wall of donors, message board and reunion and event information, a brief history of the school and current news.

WHAT TO EXPECT

The board will most likely approve this consent item at the same time as the others during the end of the board meeting.

ADOPTION OF 2007-08 PROPOSED BUDGET

The board will consider adopting the proposed budget for the 2007-08 school year. Gary Mortimer, interim assistant superintendent of business services, will present the proposed budget report to the board.

The report includes the revenue and expenditures in the district's general fund, changes in federal and state fund amounts and projected balances of programs and funds up to the 2009-10 school year.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Board members will most likely approve the proposed budget.