RePublic Schools
Minutes
February Board Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday February 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Directors Present
A. Harbin (remote), D. George (remote), E. Huffman (remote), J. Hanks (remote), M. Christy (remote), M. Tatum (remote), W. Caldwell (remote)
Directors Absent
A. Green
Guests Present
A. Bass (remote), A. Gallimore (remote), C. Shumaker (remote), Joe Keeney (remote), K. Heffel (remote), S. Landry (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
D.
Board Member Membership
II. Organizational Updates
A.
Academic Excellence Committee
B.
Governance Committee
Erika Berry made the governance committee report. She discussed a process for evaluating the CEO aligned to organizational goals.
III. Finance updates
A.
Finance Committee
Wood Caldwell gave updates from the most recent finance committee meeting held.
B.
Finance Update
Stacie Landry of 4th Sector Solutions gave a finance update. She included forecast projections for each of the seven schools.
C.
FY25 Planning
Stacie Landry of 4th Sector Solutions gave an update on RePublic's progress on the five year budget plan.
Stacie Landry, Ashley Davis-Gallimore, and Cody Shumaker discussed challenges with the Nashville Prep budget model considering enrollment trends and population shifts in the city of Nashville. RePublic will be addressing these challenges by right-sizing our staffing model and ensuring that we hit our enrollment targets.
IV. Other Business
A.
RSI Bylaws
Erika Berry led a discussion with board members on the process to revise RSI bylaws.
B.
RSN Bylaws
Erika Berry led a discussion with board members on the process to revise RSN bylaws.
C.
Board on Track Demo
Erika Berry gave a virtual demonstration of board on track.
Kevin Heffel gave updates from the academic excellence committee. He discussed topics from the most recent academic excellence meeting.
In addition, Heffel made the board aware of the following:
Per federal school improvement identification expectations, school districts update their board regularly on school progress. Reimagine Prep has been identified as TSI (targeted school improvement) based on low performance of the subgroup of students with disabilities over the last three years.
An report was attached that was also submitted to the Mississippi Department of Education that outlines how Reimagine is performing against targets based on our Winter Interim.