Bridges Charter School

Minutes

Board Meeting

Date and Time

Monday March 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM

ONSITE MEETING LOCATION

Bridges Charter School

1335 Calle Bouganvilla, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

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Community members wishing to speak publicly must be present at the board meeting in person.

Directors Present

K. Yevmenkina, N. Hashemi, N. Taylor (remote), O. Gunday Heerma

Directors Absent

H. Kruse

Guests Present

C. McCarthy, I. Rhode, K. Brown, K. Simon, R. Calasin

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

K. Yevmenkina called a meeting of the board of directors of Bridges Charter School to order on Monday Mar 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM.

C.

Approval of Agenda

O. Gunday Heerma made a motion to approve agenda.
N. Hashemi seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

D.

Approval of Minutes

N. Hashemi made a motion to approve the minutes from Board Meeting on 02-12-24.
O. Gunday Heerma seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

II. Presentations

A.

Reports from PAC

  • The outdoor classroom is under way! We are so excited about building a more robust space for outdoor learning.  
  • Dr. Kelly is meeting with community artist, Jose Antonio Aguirre on Wednesday. He is going to help our school design a meaningful community art project. 
  • May 3rd is Bridges annual carnival. The PAC has started to ask for donations
  • The Valentines Day Bake Sale raised $323
  • April 19th is the fun run and the kick off is April 11
  • Performing Arts Musical is this weekend. Times are:

3/22 at 6pm

3/23 at 1pm and 6pm

3/24 at 6pm

B.

Report from Marlo Hartsuyker, VCOE Director of Charter School Support and Oversite

III. Reports

A.

Report from the Directors

  • Westlake Village Symphony- The performance was amazing and all the students were super engaged. 
  • Dr. Kelly and Khahn will be meeting with Justin and Paul from Growing Minds on March 26th to talk about an agricultural curriculum, a farm to table program, and to provide feedback on garden designs, and to potentially help us with grant funding. https://growing-minds.org
  • Nicole Taylor, board member, has connected us with Oxnard Arts in Schools program. A teaching artist will be coming to Marsi's classroom to help the kids create a classroom mural over an 8 week period! Nicole will be featuring the work on the Arts in Schools social media channel. 
  • Lottery and Enrollment: Erin now has all the passwords needed for social media sites, and we have created a yelp account and a Nextdoor account. She has gathered a list of all the local preschools which see plans to begin contacting and developing an email campaign specifically for preschool programs. She also is beginning to identify local advertising opportunities. 
  • Our enrollment is currently at 382. We have been tracking classroom attendance with our community for the past four weeks, the following have been the trends; with non classroom based attendance at 100% daily, we will be closer to our goal of 95% if we continue with these trends: 

Week 1: 91.2%
Week 2: 93.4%

Week 3: 92%

Week 4: 93.2%

  • Our lottery is being held on Thursday. Our goal was to reach 200 students on the lottery list by March 1. We are currently at 177 in our classroom lottery and 98 in our homeschool lottery. Some students are duplicates and have entered both lotteries. 
  • Our goal for our TK/Kinder lottery was 100 TK/Kinder students by March 1st. We have a total of 89 in our TK/Kinder classroom lottery. Because of lottery numbers for TK and Kinder, and because of our desire to maximize enrollment for CVUSD residents, we will be having a TK/K combination class, a straight TK, and a straight K class. The TK/K split classroom will need an aide for the full school day. 
  • Mid-Year WASC Visit. The teachers spent a half day of our staff development day on March 4th revisiting our action steps from our WASC visit. We will be hosting a mid-year visit next school year to present on our progress toward our action steps and goals. The action steps identified as us to work on during our last WASC visit were: 
  • Open House and Art Night. Please mark your calendars for May 15th from 5-6:30 for an open house and art night at our school! We will be showcasing student art, and all of our classrooms will be open for visits from new and current families with our Service Learning Projects on display. 

 

IV. Consent Items

A.

Consent Items

O. Gunday Heerma made a motion to approve consent items.
N. Hashemi seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

V. Business and Operations

A.

2nd Interim Budget

N. Hashemi made a motion to approve the 2nd interim budget.
O. Gunday Heerma seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

VI. Special Projects/Programs

A.

Annual Contract with Parsec, NTE $7,500

O. Gunday Heerma made a motion to approve the annual contract with Parsec NTE $7,500.
N. Hashemi seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

B.

Verkada Contract, NTE $13,000

This agenda item is being tabled for next month. 

VII. Governing Board

A.

Consideration of Changing Board Meeting Times

This agenda item is being tabled for next month. 

VIII. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

O. Gunday Heerma made a motion to adjourn meeting.
N. Taylor seconded the motion.

7:17

The board VOTED to approve the motion.
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 7:17 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
K. Yevmenkina