OCEAN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT WRAP-UP

--Andrew Wainer

ISSUE: WAVE MAKER AWARD

Vote: None

Summary: Shirley Clark, a volunteer at Harbour View School, was given the

district’s Wave Maker Award for her volunteer work at the campus.

Clark has volunteered at the school for the past six years and since 1993

has substituted as a special educational aide, instructional aide and

school office manager, among other positions. She also has been a noon

duty supervisor since 1994.

District staff described Clark as “an outstanding employee and dedicated

volunteer at Harbour View School.”

ISSUE: CONTRACT AGREEMENT

Vote: 4-0, with board member Linda Kovach absent

Summary: The board approved a tentative agreement between the Ocean View

School District and Chapter 375 of the California School Employees Assn.

The preliminary contractual agreement, which covers the 1999-2000 school year, was ratified by association members in November.

The agreement includes a 4.75% raise to the classified employees’ salary

schedule, retroactive to July 1. Classified employees include teachers’

aides, janitors and district secretaries.The cost to the district to

implement the agreement is $384,008, Assistant Supt. Michael Luker said.

ISSUE: INTERN COUNSELORS

Vote: 4-0, with Kovach absent

Summary: The board approved an agreement with the Huntington Beach

Community Clinic for intern counselor services for the 1999-2000 school year.

The district has employed intern counselors in its school since 1990.

Working under the supervision of school psychologists, intern counselors

provide services to entire classes of students, small focus groups and

individual students and their parents.

The total cost for six interns for the school year will be $18,000.