Coastal Montessori Charter School
Minutes
Board of Directors Meeting
Date and Time
Monday August 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Location
Coastal Montessori Charter School
This is the monthly CMCS Board of Directors meeting.
Directors Present
A. Bailey, J. Dent, J. Dew, M. Easterling, R. Ferdon, R. Richardson
Directors Absent
B. Burkholder, R. Dawson
Guests Present
C. Bergeron, Melissa Yutzy - Veris (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approval of Agenda
D.
Approve Minutes
II. Finance
A.
July Financial Report
III. Governance
A.
CMCS PTO Report
Jessica Dent presented the Fall events of the PTO.
B.
CMCS Director's Report
Chris Bergeron presented the following items.
IReady diagnostic completed.
Security camera project in the front parking lot.
Fencing project for the Outdoor Learning Center
Update on HVAC/Trane life expectancies for our HVAC equipment.
C.
BOD Committees
Initial conversation about CMCS BOD committees. Board needs the report from Colleen Bozard and our notes from the retreat. Initial throughts on committees. Finance, Governance, Development, CEO Support and Evaluation, Academic Excellence. Item is tabled for the September meeting.
D.
Mission and By-Laws
Item tabled to be discussed along with the committees at the September meeting.
E.
Adoption of BOD Meeting Livestreaming Policy
Introduction of policy requirement from State BOE. All districts need a policy about livestreaming by Nov 5, 2025. CMCS will wait for GCSD to create their policy. GCSD policy will be presented to CMCS BOD for either adoption or as a resource to create their own livestreaming policy.
Director will look into the mounting of a camera and microphones in the middle school for our livestreaming purposes.
IV. Director's Certification
A.
Certification Program
Item tabled until September meeting. Does this fall under an Executive Session or can this be discussed/presented in an open meeting?
V. Facility
A.
USDA Rural Development Project
Update on USDA process. Significant time over the months of July and August were spent updating and enhancing our loan application. The application is at the national office of the USDA for review. Questions from the national office have been addressed by Melissa at Veris and Chris Bergeron. We are currently awaiting conditional approval of the loan application at which point a letter of conditions would be sent from the USDA to the CMCS Board. More info to come at the September meeting.
VI. Closing Items
A.
Next Meeting
Monday, September 15, 2025 at 6pm at CMCS
B.
Adjourn Meeting
- Coastal Montessori July 2025 Financial Statements.pdf
- Model Policy Livestreaming School Board Meetings.pdf
Melissa Yutzy of Veris presented the July financials. Current budget is in good shape for FY26.