Gunderson High School Foundation Meeting
Minutes, March 3, 2003  5:30 PM 
SJUSD Office, 855 Lenzen, Room 319

The meeting was called to order at 5:35 PM by Greg.  Robyn Schlice, Jeannette Harding, Veronica Lewis, Demerris Brooks, Jim Henderson, Greg West, and Dr. Linda Murray were present at the meeting.

* Liability Insurance - Greg  -  Review quotes to date and consider approval of one.  Colleen Fanciullo, the District's Risk Manager, will also be available at our meeting to answer any questions.
Colleen explained the advantage of the SLIP program through Robert F. Driver Associates.  Essentially, the larger the group, the better the deal.  We have a quote from Driver for liability with Directors’ and Officers’ (D&O) insurance through the SLIP program for roughly $1100.  We also have a quote from The Hartford for Liability only for about $500.  Robyn moved and Jim seconded that we purchase the policy from The Hartford at this time to meet the district's requirements.  Motion passed unanimously. 
Check needed for $510.00. Jeannette to draft from account to Hartford Casualty.

* Phone-a-thon 3/12 - Jim and all - The big items are the coordination of volunteers including bi-lingual students, generating phone lists, retrieval of the talking points, and refreshments.  We have about a week from the meeting date to pull it all together.
Time is reserved from 6:30-8:30.  Jim suggested being at the office by 6:15PM.
Robyn thinks she still has a copy of the script from last year.  She will look into it and get back to Jim.  Jim to get the phone list from Demerris.  Demerris will contact staff for phone volunteers, Jeannette to contact students.  We need two Spanish speaking and two Vietnamese speaking students.

* Washington DC Trip Scholarship - Jeannette  -  Consider approval of funding proposal. 
Jeannette reported that about 36 students are signed up at a cost of about $750 per person  (Total cost of about $27,000).  Thursday’s trip meeting with the students concluded that there is still an $8,000 deficit.  Funding from other organizations like SIP may be a viable.  The students are also considering various fundraising options.  Veronica stated that the Board may have issues with district required approval due to the concerns about safety/security.  Jeannette reported that the roundtrip airfare was purchased for $210 on South West.  Veronica committed to donate $300 to the Foundation from the money left over in her campaign fund.  
Robyn moved and Demerris seconded to give $1000 in funding to the DC trip.  The motion passed unanimously.

* Technology Scholarship - Greg  - Review and consider approval of plan.
Greg presented the revisions to the nomination form.  There were concerns expressed about time frames and judging criteria.  Jim moved and Robyn seconded that nominated students must enter at least one project in the Multi-Media Faire, that the nomination deadline is May 1st, that  applications will be reviewed at the May 5th board meeting, and that the final decision will be made after the Multi-Media Faire.  The motion passed unanimously.  Greg will make appropriate changes to the nomination form and will distribute to Mr. Hearlth, Ms. Webb, and Ms. Lynch.

* Motion to approve all past meeting minutes - time permitting.
Jim moved and Jeannette seconded that all previous Foundation Board meeting minutes be approved as published.   Motion passed unanimously.