Board Special Meeting⁺: 
Work Session: Budget
Business Action Item: 2017-18 Student Assignment Transition Plan
Wednesday, January 11, 2017, 4:30 – 7:00pm 

Agenda

Meeting Broadcast: Due to the nature of this meeting it will be broadcast live on Channel 26 and streamed online .

Note : Per a Board motion at the January 4, 2017 Board Meeting, discussion and action on the Student Assignment Transition Plan for 2017-18 is scheduled to take place at this meeting. Public testimony was taken on this item on January 4 and will not be taken at this meeting in order to allow time for a Board deliberation and vote. If you would like to submit comments for the Board’s consideration, you may do so by emailing schoolboard@seattleschools.org.

I. Call to Order – 4:30pm

II. Work Session: Budget (Discussion and/or action)( Presentation  & Documents)Updated

• Decisions on worst case scenario budget for 2017-18

III. Business Action Item: Student Assignment Transition Plan – 5:45pm

• Approval of the Student Assignment Transition Plan for 2017-18 – (Ops, Nov. 17, for consideration) Approval of this item would approve the Student Assignment Plan, dated November 8, 2016.

• Amendment 1 to the Student Assignment Plan for 2017-18: Allow Grandfathering with Transportation for All Rising 8th Graders   – Approval of this item would permit and implement grandfathering with transportation at comprehensive middle schools for all rising 8th graders in the 2017-18 school year who live within any area that is changing from one middle school to another for the 17-18 school year due to the opening of the Eagle Staff and Meany Middle Schools. (Director Peters)

   

• Amendment 2 to the Student Assignment Plan for 2017-18: Adjust Elementary Feeder School Patterns to Move Greenwood Elementary and Broadview Thompson K-8 into the Whitman Middle School Service Area  – Approval of this item would designate Greenwood elementary and Broadview Thompson K-8 as feeder schools for Whitman Middle School. (Directors Burke and Pinkham)

   

• Amendment 3 to the Student Assignment Plan for 2017-18: Remove HCC Geo-split to Decatur and Move Entire Cohort to New Cascadia Site  – Approval of this item would amend the proposed Student Assignment Plan for 2017-18 to move the existing HCC students from the interim site at Lincoln to the new Cascadia building on the Wilson Pacific Campus. (Director Burke) (Director Burke has withdrawn this amendment)

   

• Amendment 4 to the Student Assignment Plan for 2017-18: Establish Decatur school site as an optional, rather than geo-split, pathway for northeast elementary HCC students   – Approval of this item would amend the proposed Student Assignment Plan for 2017-18 to permit and implement Decatur as an optional HCC pathway. (Director Peters)(Director Peters has withdrawn this amendment)
  
     
• Amendment 5 to the Student Assignment Transition Plan for 2017-18: Facility Space for Licton Springs K-8 – Approval of this Item would signal the School Board’s intent to allocate necessary classroom space for Licton Springs K-8 to grow its program and then reassess space prioritization no sooner than two years from now. (Directors Burke and Pinkham)
• Summary of Fiscal Impact Language from Director Amendments

IV. Adjourn – 7:00pm^*

⁺Special meetings of the Board, including work sessions and retreats, may contain discussion and/or action related to the items listed on the agenda.

 ^*Times given are estimated