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The San Ramon Valley school board is set to consider appointing a new Bella Vista Elementary principal at a closed-session meeting Tuesday morning, just over a year after the school first opened in the Dougherty Valley.
The school’s first principal, Barb Mallon, announced this summer that she had taken a position on the East Coast to be closer to family, said San Ramon Valley Unified School District communications director Elizabeth Graswich, who said district officials have been working with the community to find her replacement.
Bella Vista was the district’s 36th school and the fifth elementary school in the Dougherty Valley. It opened in August 2016, with the hope that it would alleviate overcrowding at other nearby campuses. The school was built to accommodate about 830 students on its 7.4-acre site overlooking the San Ramon Valley out to Mount Diablo.
Mallon opened the school, moving to then-under-construction Bella Vista the summer of 2015 after serving as principal of San Ramon’s Twin Creeks Elementary for four years. Previously, she worked in a variety of positions in the West Contra Costa County Unified School District and in the Vacaville and Fairfield-Suisun districts.
The board’s closed session is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. at the Superintendent’s Conference Room at the district administrative complex, 699 Old Orchard Drive in Danville. The open session will follow immediately at 8:30 a.m., though moving to the boardrooms at the same site.
In other business
* The school board will consider other public employee appointments as well during closed session: director of student services, special education program supervisors and assistant principals at Live Oak Elementary, Pine Valley Middle and Monte Vista High.
* Board members will confer with legal counsel over unspecified anticipated litigation, also during closed session.
* During the open-session meeting directly following the closed session, board members will consider approving the employment contract for Gregory Medici, the district’s new chief business officer. According to his contract, his employment terms are from Aug. 1, 2017 through June 30, 2019, with the possibility for a one-year contract extension determined by the first board meeting in May of each year.
The contract offers Medici an annual salary of $211,973, with eligibility for a 5% longevity step increment on July 1, 2020 and every subsequent three years, up to four increments.
* The school board will consider authorizing provisional internship permits (PIPs) to five SRVUSD teachers for the 2017-18 school year.
A PIP is issued to applicants to teaching credentialing internship programs — which allow applicants to complete teacher preparation coursework while in their first year or two in a paid teaching position — if they need more time to meet the subject matter competency requirements.
The teachers being considered are Gurtej Bansal at Windemere Ranch Middle School, Helen Boentje at Dougherty Valley High School, Jim Kang at Pine Valley Middle School, Lynne Palumbo at Del Amigo High School and Simon Yeo at Iron Horse Middle School.
