BUSD taking advantage of music enrichment donations

Alison Arter-Fulcher is providing music enrichment education at the three elementary schools in the Bonsall Unified School District, and Bonsall taxpayers aren’t funding the bill.

Donations from the Bonsall Education Foundation and the Parent-Teacher Association of Bonsall West Elementary School allowed the BUSD board to approve an independent contract agreement with Arter-Fulcher at the board’s Oct. 9 meeting. Arter-Fulcher is being paid $156 per session with an annual cap of $14,500.

“She does a great job,” said BUSD superintendent Justin Cunningham.

Arter-Fulcher worked with the Bonsall students for four months during the 2013-14 school year. “She was really good,” Cunningham said.

The schedule calls for Arter-Fulcher to provide 37 full sessions and 19 half-sessions at Bonsall Elementary School, 39 full sessions at Bonsall West Elementary School, and 19 half-sessions at Vivian Banks Charter School between Sept. 29 and March 13. Arter-Fulcher will provide students with music concepts in rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and expression. The contract also calls for one performance at each of the three elementary school sites.

The contract was approved on a 3-0 vote Oct. 9. Dick Olson, Lou Riddle, and Sylvia Tucker voted in favor. Timothy Coen and Richard Smith were not at the board meeting.