LISD Academic Advocates

1. Call to Order and Pledge. The meeting was called to order at 7:05 P.M. in the cafeteria of Cedar Park Middle School.

2. Presentation of Grant Funds by the OneOAK Foundation. Terri Greene presented Academic Advocates with $2,000.00 from Texas Gas Services. This will be used for student and teacher scholarships.

3. Speaker. Our guest speaker was Dr. Shirley Neeley. She was appointed head of the Texas Commission of Education by Governor Perry in 2004. She has many awards and accomplishments.
She praised the school district, community, and Academic Advocates for the great job of education. LISD is being recognized as a great education community- it is "education solid." Dr. Neeley shared her insights on the progress of the education bills currently in the legislature as well as the state's position with respect to No Child Left Behind (often referred to as NCLB) standards of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

4. Presentation of scholarships. 4 students and 1 teacher were presented with scholarships. Theresa Hoang and Megan Upah each received $500.00 scholarships and Bobby Frey and Josh York each received $250.00 awards. Elizabeth von Steiger was the faculty recipient of a $500 scholarship. All of the awardees are from Cedar Park High School.

5. Minutes. The minutes of the March 23 meeting were read. (A quorum was not present for the April 20 meeting). Chris Cavalli moved to accept the minutes. Elizabeth Frey seconded the motion.

6. Treasurer's report. The beginning balance was $1,534.20. There was one individual membership for $5.00 and one donation for $5.00. There was one expense to A O Metro Systems (web hosting) for $89.94. The ending balance was $1,454.26.

7. Treasurer books. Karen Tarnow and Mary Lou Moore said they would audit the treasurer's books.

8. Election of officers. The nominations for the officers of Academic Advocates for 2005-06 were:
President : Erika Mittag
Vice-president : Chris Cavalli
Treasurer : Fattenah Hashemi
Secretary-Marilyn Hosier
High school director at CPHS-Chris Kay
Karen Tarnow moved to accept the nominations. Ray Cowperthwaite 2nd the motion. The motion passed unanimously.

9. Announcements. We will start meeting at the CPHS library on the 4th Monday of the month starting August 29th, 2005.

10. The meeting adjourned at 8:25 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn Hosier
Secretary