CUSDWatch- Trustees Please vote No on the Breakthrough Coach Contract Agenda Item #7 - Gifting of Public Assets

A MUST SEE PRESENTATION

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BLUE CARD - Dawn Urbanek
In August 2015, The Breakthrough Coach arranged a partnership with the District to host two professional development conferences – one two-day workshop and one one-day workshop, specifically for administrators (including site leadership) and individual direct administrative support staff (ie secretaries and/or office managers) teams. Due to overwhelming positive feedback, the District and The Breakthrough Coach entered into another contract in May 2016 to host another two sessions (one two-day and one one-day) in October 2016.

This Contract is for The Breakthrough Coach to provide a two-day management development program for school administrators and their administrative support professionals on Monday & Tuesday, October 23-24, 2017. The cost is $3,425 out of the General Fund.

No General Fund Money should be used for Professional Development when a district lacks sufficient funding to provide Art Music and Science to its students.

The Contract is an exchange of goods and services.

The School District agrees to provide:

• Conference & parking space capable of accommodating 100 participants for 2 days.
• 1 Staff member liaison to assist in planning of training.
• AV Equipment requested
• Coffee and water both days

In exchange The Breakthrough Coach will provide complementary program tuitions to CUSD.

In 2015 CUSD agreed to provide the requested meeting space, liaison, AV equipment and drinks in exchange for complementary tickets. CUSD did not pay for any additional members to attend.

In 2016 CUSD agreed to provide the requested meeting space, liaison, AV equipment and drinks in exchange for complementary tickets. CUSD paid $4,950 for additional members to attend.

In 2017 CUSD agreed to provide the requested meeting space, liaison, AV equipment and drinks in exchange for complementary tickets. CUSD is anticipating spending $3,425 for additional members to attend.

The value of the payment to CUSD is $675 X 4 = $2,700.00

The Break Through Coach will collect $675 from 50 teams = $33,750.00

This appears to be a gifting of Public Assets.

This Agreement was executed on 1/31/17 on behalf of the School District without any statement of who executed this document on behalf of CUSD.

Why are Trustees being asked to approve this agreement tonight- six months after-the-fact?

Paragraph 5 of the Contract on page 2: EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT

This is how CUSD gets compensated for its "cut" of the profits.

There is some public feedback that shows that the while the results of this program may be beneficial to Administrators it does not benefit Staff and students to have limited access to their Superintendents and Principals.

See: Gilbert Public Schools had issues with this training and its effect on Gilbert Schools- it made Superintendent and Principals inaccessible to parents and students - they had to do everything through the Secretary or administrative staff. http://westieconnect.com/archives/1533

PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST
Date: Tuesday July 25, 2017
To: The Capistrano Unified School District
Re: The Breakthrough Coach
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July 26, 2017 BOT Meeting Agenda Item #7 The Breakthrough Coach at page 297 of 661
Paragraph 5. EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT

CONSULTANT will reimburse SCHOOL DISTRICT for any out-of-pocket expenses related to food or materials. SCHOOL DISTRICT will bill CONSULTANT 30 days after completion of training.

Please provide documentation of any expenses that CUSD billed The Breakthrough Coach for in 2015, 2016 and 2017.