the importance of delack and elacs. and -- delacs and elacs and i know that some of the elacs are functioning very well, others, i don't know if they even exist. so i would like to ask for the superintendent, that staff really do an inventory and give us a report in a month's time or i think that would do it, in terms of where the questions were, do they have elacs? and do they turn over the responsibility to the school site council or not? and whether or not they feel that they're getting communication from delac or not. and the other thing i would like to recommend is that if we're sending information to the principals, are we sending it through email? >> yes. vice president yee: so, the other thing i would like to ask staff to do would be to get the email, if they have them, get the email address of all the chairs of elacs so you can send it -- you can ly

and -- delacs and elacs and i know that some of the elacs are functioning w

in a month's time or i think that would do it, in terms of where the questions were, do they have elacs? and do they turn over the responsibility to the school site council or not? and whether or not they feel that they're getting communication from delac or not. and the other thing i would like to recommend is that if we're sending information to the principals, are we sending it through email? >> yes. vice president yee: so, the other thing i would like to ask staff to do would be to get the email, if they have them, get the email address of all the chairs of elacs so you can send it -- you can easily send the information to both of them, the chair and the principal, rather than it goes to the principal and then, you know, it's a little cumbersome to me. and once you get it in your computer, you know, it should be pretty easy to do. the other thing would be, you know, we are -- some of us will be pushing a little bit on trying to find a little more resources for the parent engagement department or office and i think one of the things that we should look at is, you know, in the section

one of the things that we should look at is, you know, in the section between parent liaison and the elacs because i walk into several schools, even today, and the parent liaison was saying, well, you know, and we will be discussing, how do you get the english language or not english speakers to be engaged in coming to our meetings and so forth? and it seems like, you know, if one is going to be successful, the other is going to be successful. if there's not that true pashship that's happening between the -- partnership that's happening between the parent liaison and elac, it should be going on. and people -- and to the credit of the people i'm talking to at the school sites in terms of parent liaison, when they asked a question like, help me, please, you can make any discussions to help me reach out so -- discussions to help me reach out so the chinese speaking spanish or spanish speaking families participate more, they really truly want help. so i think we really need to give them that help. so that's what i want to say about the parent liaison. thank you for your report. are there any o

the question that somebody sb brought up -- somebody brought up about, once elac is up to the authority for the council to make decisions on the budget , what's the process to reverse that if the elac wanted to reverse it? is it like forever or is it once a year they vote on it or how does it really work? i'm just curious about that. >> well, the guidelines from the california department of education says that every year elac should be -- every two years the elac committee should be elected.if they have delegatd responsibility to the council, and a two-year term they get a elected again, about cycles again. i honestly feel in any school if you have a committee that wants to get engaged, most principles are very open to that. it is a developmental cycle. >> can i challenge the motion? what you just said was that they elect members. then they could shoe's shoe -- they could choose to vote to give the authority to the council terminal but they still, don't they? >> the body always exists. >> they could always leave vote -- re-vote. what you said does not indicate they cannot reverse it. >>