Time Record: Charter School of Morgan Hill Launch Team

What is this thing? Welcome to the world of independent contracting. As a member of the Charter School of Morgan Hill community, you are contributing your time towards the creation of a new public school. One reward for all of us will be the thrill of making something new happen. But most community members are also hoping to continue their participation by having their children attend the new school. Priority for enrollment is based on a family’s volunteer standing. This is your timesheet, your record of work expended.

Post this sheet in a convenient place. When you put in time on CSMH projects, add it to your log. Be accurate and reasonable. Record time for tasks you do on behalf of your launch team committee. Don’t worry….you don’t need to know how to "pad" your time like a B-movie private eye! If you just mark down what you are doing and when, you will be astonished at how quickly the time adds up.

How to log time: whenever you work on your assigned committee tasks (and if you have an idea of something that needs done…ask your committee chair first, because maybe someone else is already doing that!), fill in the date, time spent, and a brief description of what you were doing. Round time expended to the nearest quarter-hour. You may have several entries in one day or skip a few days when you are busy with Real Life. For example:

9/18/00

1 1/4

Make time report & how-to stuff.

What does NOT belong on your time record? Doing your own self-education on charter schools, chatting with friends about the school either in person or on the internet, having lunch with your committee members…and similar activities which are related to the effort, but don’t move the project forward. Don’t underplay your efforts, though. If you have to call sixteen people to track down the one who has the information your committee needs, all sixteen calls count. If you must visit seven potential school sites, all of them count. Use your time wisely! We have lots to do, and little time left, and not really very many volunteers! If you can replace a visit with a phone call, do that. If two people are enough for a meeting with a school district official, let a third interested person accomplish another task. Don’t worry, you’ll log more than the "required" time before you know it.

Whenever convenient, turn in completed pages to your committee chair. Committee chairs will keep a running record of the total productive hours logged by their committee members. Remember, committee chairs have the right to question or adjust your time reports. Don’t take it personally unless you are extremely sensitive about your penmanship! It is a good idea to keep a copy of your time record for your own reference. It helps to see what you’ve accomplished!