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INTEROFFICE CORRESPONDENCELos Angeles Unified School District

Office of the Superintendent

TO: Members, Board of Education DATE: August 22, 2013

FROM: Dr. John E. Deasy, Superintendent

SUBJECT: BOARD RESOLUTIONS - AUGUST 20, 2013

Wednesday morning, during our regular team meeting, the Sr. Leadership and I followed up on

directives from yesterdays Board Meeting and turned our attention to Resolution entitled, To

Engage the Los Angeles Unified School District Community and Establish Fiscal Priorities, which

was established and approved by the Board. As we were working to quickly establish all of theresolutions inside the board agenda, we stumbled upon a few situations where we need your

direction, guidance and clarification.

The first resolve directs me to make use of the parent community services branch, parent centers,

facilities services community relations, KLCS and the Public Information Office, to coordinate,

promote and conduct at least five (5) public hearings (one at each service center) to better inform

the budgetary and decision making process and to best reflect the communities priorities goingforward. It states that this is to be done by the annual final adoption of the budget, which is

scheduled to take place on June 10, 2014 (given no fiscal problems with Sacramentos Legislative

Session this year).

The administration is establishing a calendar to include all of these meetings so that they can be

completed by June 10th

, and will also be appointing leadership to guide each one of these.

The second resolve states that the district shall convene budget briefing meeting with its employees

and bargaining units, seeking their input on how resources should be spent. The district is in the

process of establishing budget briefing meetings with UTLA, AALA, SEIU, CSEA, LASPA, LASPMA, Teamsters, LA Building & Trades, District Represented/Non-District Represented

employees, prior to the June 10th

meeting. The organization and scheduling of these briefings is

also in process.

The third resolve directs obtaining input regarding student priorities be solicited from the

superintendents student advisory council. Those student council meetings are set and we will

choose two of those before the testing and graduation period in May for the annual budget adoption.

The fourth resolve directs the superintendent to present a schedule for all of the above forums andcommunity input within 30 days of the adoption of the resolution. Those schedules will be brought

before the board for the September 10th

meeting, as September 19th

would be the expiration of the30 day period.

The fifth resolve states that the governing board of LAUSD shall conduct a Committee of theWhole meeting within 90 days to publicly discuss and rank its priorities and to align dollars to those

priorities. The Committee of the Whole meetings that meet this timeline are September 17th

,

October 15, or November 19th

. The first question I have is, who will make the decision and set the

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agenda in concurrence with the resolution for the Committee of the Whole meeting? During the

meeting, it was also established that Board Member Zimmer was to Chair the Committee of the

Whole, and not hearing otherwise, I assume that Board Member Zimmer is to set this agenda itemsand set the meeting date. We look forward to that piece of information before the 30 day window is

up where I will identify and present the schedule.

However, the last resolution is the one that provides a seemingly impossible directive to follow, and

this is where we need your help and clarification. This resolution directs that the Superintendentshall provide the Committee of the Whole with a written report summarizing the results of all of the

previously identified forums for community/student/employee input. This is to be done at least twoweeks prior to the Committee of the Whole meeting which must be held 90 days from the adoption

of the resolution, which was August 20, 2013. In order to comply with this part of the resolution,

which is the most important in terms of timing, I feel that I have a nearly impossible situation andrequire further direction. For example, if the committee of the Whole is scheduled for October 15,

which is one of the three possible dates in order to comply with the resolution, my report

summarizing the minimum 20 public meetings would have to be ready to provide to the Committee

of the Whole by October 1st. This would necessitate that all of the meetings would need to take

place between now and October 1st

as opposed to before the annual meeting in June. While we are

establishing this meeting schedule, we need direction on how to resolve this contradiction inscheduling.

Since this is a board resolution, I know that the Board meets again on September 10th

to issue

guidance, however that would contradict with the directive given to me to provide the entireschedule by the September 10

thBoard meeting, knowing that the agenda must be set and published

a week in advance. The administration is moving forward to develop a schedule, therefore direction

is eagerly awaited.

For your reference, I have attached a copy of the resolution that was presented and voted on at the

table at the August 20, 2013 Board meeting.

c: Sr. Leadership Team

Jefferson Crain