Educational Excellence
School Advisory Council

7541 North Miami Beach Senior High School

Verified EESAC Meeting Minutes for:    12/12/2016  03:30 PM

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Recording Secretary:    Adam Pasternack

Location of meeting:    NMB, Room 710

Was a quorum established?    Yes

Was the meeting advertised?    Yes,  11/18/2016

Attendance:

Members Present:

Ridore, Billy C (Alternate Principal)
Davis, James (Union Steward)
Boeva, Vania (Teacher)
Luzardo, Rei (Teacher)
Martin, Veronica (Teacher)
Pasternack, Adam (Teacher)
Vetiac, Micheline (Teacher)
Simon, Monique (Parent)
Harris, Lianne (Alternate Parent)
Cazes, Angelyz (Student)
Chouieki, Ali (Student)
Khan, Zohaib (Student)
Rivers, Erick (Student)




Members Absent (Excused):

Milliken, Randy (Principal)

Members Absent (Unexcused):

Gant, Alicia (Alternate Teacher/Paraprofessional)
Clerizier, Edma (Educational Support Employee)
Serrano, Peter (Alternate Educational Support)
Levins, Jean (Parent)
Small, Claudette (Alternate Parent)
Francois, Shamise (Student)
Pierre-Louis, Trisha (Student)
Rendel, Laetitah (Student)
Vega, Ashley (Student)
Calvaire, Ritchel (Alternate Student)
Wohl, Matthew (Business/Community Representative)

Others Present:

Mcnahika Guillaume
Rashi Stovall
Jean Moise
Nicole Corona
Dr Roger Mabe

Topics Covered:

Mr. Luzardo Opens meeting and asks to review minutes
Ms. Martin Moves to accept the minutes, Mr. Pasternack seconds, no objections.

S.I.P. Status – No changes, or updates.

Mr. Ridore discusses funding that Mr. Milliken mentioned at the last meeting. $15,695.84 currently in the E.E.S.A.C. funding. (After the Principal's allotment)

Ms Norona asks for $270 for one class set of novels for the AP Lit novel, All the Pretty Horses. Brief discussion of the novel and the uses thereof, Ms. Martin mentions she went around the school with Ms. Norona looking for an appropriate text and could not locate one. Mr. Pasternack mentions the class has no text book and the lack of technology to access short stories and the like. Dr. Davis voices concerns that one class set might not help enough of our students to constitute the S.I.P. discussion occurs. Ms Simon moves to accept, Angelys Cazes Seconds, no objections, motion passes.

Dr. Mabe proposes to get ink cartridges for the printer that the E.E.S.A.C. committee funded last year. He has no funding available to go through besides the E.E.S.A.C. Ms. Martin mentions that all students in the building pass through Social Studies, several mentions of buying an extra cartridge so they don’t run out before next year. Dr. Davis moves that we accept the newly proposed $552.50 to get ink. Ms. Martin seconds, everyone agrees, no opposition.

Ms. Stoval brings forth the need for microphones for the reading department, the microphones mentioned are from Walmart, new ones are found from Newegg. $240 dollars are calculated to buy from Newegg, the appropriate number of microphones. Ali Choueiki moves to accept, Dr. Davis seconds, everyone approves, no opposition.

Ms. Martin introduces Ms. Jean to talk on the beautification of the school. Around $1800 is requested, for various and miscellaneous things to beautify the school. Mr. Pasternack asks what the money would be used for. It is mentioned that the paperwork has been misplaced, and it is in detail somewhere, just not currently present. Dr. Davis asks if the school itself doesn’t have a budget to beautify and fix / repair the school. Mr. Ridore says that no money is in the budget for school improvement, or repairs. Mr. Luzardo moves to accept the proposal, Ms. Martin seconds it. Most approve, and Ms. Boeva makes a statement.

Eric Rivers speaks on behalf of Ms. Smith, on two issues. The first being:
Winter Showcase, they have 2 play scripts they want to perform., and to perform them legally they must pay $35 per script. The discussion of the license fee versus a performance fee ensues…he asks for $70, overall to perform the play. Some questions about the license fee and the time in which it can be used are bounded. Angelys motions to approve, Zohaib seconds, all approve.
Second Event being, A Renaissance festival…a field trip to send some students to learn at the fair and bring back the knowledge to the school. They would then host their own festival for the school, and for the 8th graders at J.F.K. They request the fee for 90 students and the 2 buses to go along with it, the total being 1170 dollars. Ms. Boeva mentions the S.T.E.A.M. program. Small discussion on the funding of field trips, mention that students can pay for the 7-dollar fee if 90 or more of them are going to go. Mr. Luzardo reads from the E.E.S.A.C.’s guidelines about funding field trips for clubs. No motion to approve the request. The request is denied.

Mr. Luzardo moves on to student updates.
Zohaib mentions the JROTC drill meet, a correction, we are not competing in the drill meet we are just hosting the drill meet. Approximately 10 to 12 schools are expected to come, the meet will be from around 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Eric Rivers mentions the winter showcase for drama. Student tickets are $3, general admission is $4. Mr. Luzardo mentions charging an extra dollar to help fund the field trip. December 20th at 2:45, is the showcase. Students also received their P.S.A.T. scores. It is mentioned that Eric got a thousand, and did well.
Ali mentions this Wednesday is senior breakfast, and it will be awesome. The toy drive has begun, and Ms. Monique is helping / doing the toy drive. The FIT program gave a generous donation, Ali asks for help in getting more students and teachers involved.
Ms. Martin mentions her students have a budget and she told her students about the project and they went to Big Lots and the children in her program went around and picked out what they thought would be best for the children and people in need.
Angelys, mentions that S.G.A. went to the superintendent’s round table, where they got to talk to him, about President Elect Trump.

P.T.S.A. – Ms. Martin mentions, we had a P.T.S.A. meeting last week and had a discussion of next year bringing a carnival to N.M.B. The P.T.S.A. has almost no budget but are constantly working to improve our school.

Community - Mr. Luzardo speaks on a collaboration with Mr. Wohl about Miami Dade College and North Miami Beach on the programs our students use and then the ones the college uses, they are working together to bring the programs in line so that the students can have one progressive path instead of splitting their focus.

Faculty and Staff – Mr. Pasternack mentions that Speech and Debate took second place in a tournament and hope to take first in the upcoming tournament.

Administration – Mr. Ridore mentions that the soccer team is doing well and he would like people to come out and see the students play. Mentions hopefully we will get our F.S.A. scores soon.

U.T.D. – Received a very disturbing email today in regards to the President of the Union, and a change to the S.I.P., he points out that he needs at least a week’s notice to sign off on any change to the S.I.P. just to have enough time to be able to go over anything. Dr. Davis also attended the official training for teacher evaluations, mentions the V.A.M. scores and the movements by the Union. He asks when the Instructional Review will occur, as he was hearing rumors by members about the I.R. Mr. Ridore mentions that it will be when we come back, what is happening before the break is just friendly visits by the school doing its own I.R. and the visits will occur randomly and in the future continually.

Discussion of the next meeting occurs: Tentative Future Date is January 17th