CLSSC Board Meeting minutes:

Palms Middle School

Saturday December 3rd from 12-1:30pm.

 

In Attendance:

Richard Ma, Chairman

Dennis Yeh: Board Member

David Chieu: Board Member

Ali Liu: Principal

Joan Kung: Treasurer

Francis Maile: President of PTA

Rosie Fang: teacher representative

Jean Huang: Secretary to Board and VP General Affairs

Suh Chen Hsaio: VP Academic Affairs

Angelina Shih: Director of Registration and Board Member

 

Topics addressed:

 

1. Preschool service point requirement: Angelina Shih

-Preschool parents can’t give 20 hours.

-Board unanimously agreed to waive service points for these parents.

-Jean will change family service points and alert parent body in next emailing.

-We will clarify in writing in the school roster and on the website.

 

2.  Adult class service point requirement: Angelina Shih

-Service points are not required; therefore we charge a higher fee; however, Adult students with kids in school still have to fulfill their points.

-We will clarify in writing in the school roster and on the website.

 

3. Curriculum: Suh Chen Hsiao

-Existing curriculum is not specific enough for B track students. We are currently addressing with:

-Professor Ming Ran from Northridge will come and speak with the teachers on January 14th.

-We are examining using new textbooks

-Professor Zhou- observing upper grade B track classes and held a one on one interaction with the teachers. He will be invited back for a follow up meeting to share his observations and conclusions with the teachers.

-Library will seek to add additional animated programs in Mandarin for children to use.  Members will research and acquire copies as needed.

-Teacher quality needs to be assessed; therefore, all board members will visit four classes each by end of January. Suh distributed an evaluation form, and each member signed up to observe four classes for a minimum two hours. 

-PB class is very full. We discussed splitting the PB class in two in January. It was decided that Suh will hire one full time helper to spend one hour in preschool and two hours in PB on a temporary basis to start and perhaps full time with board approval.

-Adult class: Next September 2005, we will need a Year 2 class. Minimum number of students for break-even is $2400.

 

4. School operating budget: Dennis Ma and Joan Kung

-We need a budget within the next two weeks and in time for the next board meeting.

-Joan will pull together once she receives total enrollment from Angelina

 

5. Enrollment: Angelina Shih

We have 217 students up from last year. School is growing.

 

6. School Telephone number: David Chieu

School needs a telephone number.

-Jean will look in to prepaid cellular and research costs

-The principal, Ali Liu, will keep the phone and respond to calls.

-Finalize at next board meeting

 

7. Safety: Rosie Fang

-Some kids are dropped off at the school as early as 8:30am in the morning and stay beyond 1:15 or 1:30pm at the end of the day. This is unsafe.

-Ali will write an email letter notifying parents.

 

8.  PTA: Francis

-Francis raised a number of possible ways to raise money for the school PTA including:

-Café Press will T-shirt go to cafepress.com

-Escripts

-Wamoola visa card or visa check card.

-Francis will prepare a more detailed report for the next board meeting before we move forward.

 

9. Liability Insurance for the board –Ali Liu

-Further information is coming.

-To be discussed at next meeting

 

10:Teacher’s gifts- Suh Chen Hsiao

-CLSSC will buy gifts for Palms School classroom teachers.

-Ali will buy $20 gift certificates from Staples and hand deliver to each classroom.

-Chinese school teachers’ gifts will be given for Chinese New Years.

 

11. Next board meeting

January 7th from 12-1:00pm