JFK School, Room 102
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Attendees
Nadine Desharnais, Amy Gusefski, Tracy Triplett, Morgan Hayward, Sean Greenhalgh, Nichole Barros, Christian Dibble, Sarah Smith, Sarah ____, Jessica Cole, Lauren ___, Pam Henry, Jessica ___, Dacia Shillingford-Compas, Anita Cooper, Phi Nguyen, Sherry Tyrance, Mr. Nunez (translation)
New Business
Nadine provided a list of the open positions for which elections would be held:
- PSC Executive Board: Co-Chair (2 years); Secretary (2 years); Secretary (1 year); Treasurer (2 years); Citywide Parent Council (CPC) Rep. (2 years); Special Education (SPED) Rep. (2 years); District English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC) Rep. (2 years)
- JFK Governing Board: Member (3 years); Member (3 years); Alternate (1 year)
Nadine explained that anyone can be nominated, although the nominee must agree to be nominated, and that anyone should feel free to nominate him or herself.
Descriptions of the responsibilities for each position were then provided by various attendees:
- Dacia described the responsibilities of the Co-Chair: facilitating parent-wide and executive board meetings, assisting in organizing events and promoting PSC initiatives, acting as a liaison on behalf of the PSC to Dr. Copeland.
- Tracy described the responsibilities of the Secretary: keeping minutes of the meetings and distributing them.
- Nadine described the responsibilities of the Treasurer: managing any funds belonging to the PSC, working on fundraising initiatives.
- Morgan described the responsibilities of the CPC Rep.: attending monthly CPC meetings, reporting back to the PSC on issues raised by the CPC, and bringing to the CPC any issues that have arisen at the JFK.
- Nichole described the responsibilities of the SPED Rep.: attending monthly Citywide SPED meetings, reporting back to the PSC on issues raised by that group, and bringing to the group any issues that have arisen at the JFK; holding the position can also be beneficial to a parent of a SPED child in terms of understanding District policies and issues.
- Nadine described the responsibilities of the DELAC Rep.: attending regular DELAC meetings, reporting back to the PSC on issues raised by DELAC, and bringing to DELAC any issues that have arisen at the JFK; given the number of ELL students at the JFK, and that we were unable to fill this position last year, it is a priority of the PSC to try to fill this position this year.
- Morgan and Tracy described the responsibilities of the Governing Board members: attending monthly Governing Board meetings, reporting on PSC activities, reporting back to the PSC on actions and policies being implemented by the Governing Board; the Governing Board is responsible for hiring of staff, approving the school budget, setting important school policies, among other things.
Nominations were then taken for each position with the following nominations made and accepted:
- Co-Chair: Amy Gusefski, Dacia Shillingford-Compas
- Secretary (2 years): Tracy Triplett
- Secretary (1 year): Jessica Cole
- Treasurer: Jermaine McNeill, Lauren _____
- CPC Rep.: Sarah Smith
- SPED Rep.: Nichole Barros
- DELAC Rep.: no nominee, but Sarah ___ offered to do some outreach to Spanish-speaking parents if provided a simple writeup about the position.
- Governing Board Member: Christian Dibble
- Governing Board Member: Sean Greenhalgh
- Governing Board Alternate: Sherry Tyrance
Ballots were provided to each attendee, completed, and returned to Morgan for tallying.
Nadine reported that for the two positions with more than one candidate, Amy Gusefski had received a greater number of votes and would be the new Co-Chair, and Jermaine McNeill had received the greater number of votes and would be the new Treasurer.
Amy announced that the next PSC meeting would be on October 26 at 8:30 a.m. in the staff lounge.
Tracy announced that the next Governing Board meeting would be on October 25 at 4 p.m.
The meeting was adjourned.