Portland School Committee

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Room 250, Casco Bay High School

Assuring that all students are learning for their future

ADDENDUM

Personnel

1. Consideration and action to authorize the hiring process to begin for the vacancy listed:

Position	FTE	Location	Annual Salary (pro-rated)	Funding Source	Rationale
Parent Community Coordinator	.2	Multi	$2,432* $4,864 (annual)	Grant	We have increasing numbers of Iraqi families with over 100 students enrolled in Portland Public Schools since November 2008. There is no staff member in any of our schools or at the Multilingual Center who speaks Iraqi Arabic. Many of these parents are newcomers and speak very limited English. We need to be able to communicate with them in a language that they can access. The position is for one day a week or two half days a week.

Moved_____ Seconded_____ Voted____ to authorize hiring process to begin for the vacancy listed