Bridges Charter School
Minutes
Board Meeting
Date and Time
Monday April 8, 2024 at 6:15 PM
ONSITE MEETING LOCATION
Bridges Charter School
1335 Calle Bouganvilla, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
SATELLITE MEETING LOCATIONS
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In Ventura County:
1196 Portside Drive
Ventura, CA 93001
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Directors Present
H. Kruse, K. Yevmenkina, N. Hashemi, N. Taylor (remote)
Directors Absent
O. Gunday Heerma
Guests Present
C. McCarthy, K. Brown, K. Simon
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approval of Agenda
D.
Approval of Minutes
E.
Approve Minutes from June 2023
II. Presentations
A.
Reports from PAC
B.
Report from Marlo Hartsuyker, VCOE Director of Charter School Support and Oversite
Marlo offered to do Board governance training.
C.
Discussion with Chase Dapello, Candidate for Board of Directors
Chase Dapello is interested in joining the Board. Board members had the opportunity to get to know him and ask questions.
III. Reports
A.
Report from the Directors
Collaboration with Jose Antonio, community artist: to create a community art project mosaic wall that would involve design from our students and the actual creation of art with our whole community.
We have two artists on campus teaching 4 different groups of students. The artist collaborations have been fun and engaging for our students, and the teachers have had good feedback about the teaching artists.
We had a meeting with Paul Huddack regarding helping to ramp up a Farm to Table program at Bridges. His programs are exactly aligned with the vision that Chef Khanh and I have for the outdoor classroom and the Healthy eating programs at Bridges, and we are hoping to collaborate with him on creating a middle school elective for next year that will involve students in kick-starting this project. We also hope to use some of our surplus Cafeteria funds to support this project.
The school submitted a grant proposal for the Farm to Table Incubator grant over break. We expect about a 6 month turn around on this grant, however, we do have plans to begin programming next year on a small scale regardless of whether grant funds are allocated. We will continue to seek other opportunities for funding.
Our lottery was very successful! Currently, with the accepted spots, our enrollment looks to be between 430-443 next year.
TK: 25
K: 33
1: 33
2: 33
3: 42
4: 53
5: 29
6: 46
7: 34
8: 34
HS: 81 (We have a big waiting list, and could go up to 87-88 if these enrollment numbers stay consistent.)
Total: 443
Attended CCSA. Skye and I presented at the Conference to about 25 attendees regarding our SEL practices and Universal Monitoring. Our session received positive feedback from attendees. I'm attaching our slides here if you wish to look at our presentation.
Form 700 has been completed.
Will be discussing the Workplace Violence Protection Plan tonight.
IV. Consent Items
A.
Consent Items
V. Business and Operations
A.
Revised Bell Schedule for SY 24-25
B.
24-25 CVUSD Food Service Contract
VI. Special Projects/Programs
A.
Contract with CTC (Consortium Training and Consulting) to support SB 553
approve up to $5,500
PAC is continuing to cleanup the outdoor classroom.
Last farm to table event will be April 16th.
The planning of the School Carnival is underway
There are currently 3 open position for the PAC Board