The Anchor School
Minutes
Governance Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Location
Virtual
https://meet.google.com/afx-ekdi-xtv
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PIN: 877 811 078#
Committee Members Present
A. Pressey (remote), J. Burton (remote), N. LeBlanc (remote)
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
J. Pinto Taylor (remote), M. Felts (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
N. LeBlanc called a meeting of the Governance Committee of The Anchor School to order on Wednesday Jan 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes
N. LeBlanc made a motion to approve the minutes from Governance Committee Meeting on 11-06-24.
J. Burton seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Governance
A.
Policy Tracker Review
- Agreed to remove number system column
- Add more categories/columns:
- Committees who need to review policy(Academic (AC), Governance (GC), Finance (FC), Health & Safety (Operations, GC))
- Trigger date when the next review (with color conditioning)
- Add hyperlinks to policies
B.
CSP Enrollment Policy Updates
- Governance committee agrees with the edits to the CSP Enrollment Policy by Dr. Pinto-Taylor and will bring this to the board for formal vote in January
C.
Executive Director Report
- Received 4 findings from SCSC, Dr. Pinto-Taylor has plans to resolve and appeal these findings
- Planning on interviewing marketing agencies but will grass root social media in the meantime until the new school year
- Received $100k grant from Charter School Growth Fund
D.
CAP update
- Need to correct 3 findings and 1 adverse practice in the January board meeting to submit corrective action by mid February
E.
Review draft Academic Calendar for SY25-26
- Parents feedback is to be as close aligned with DeKalb county school calendar so changes have been align but not exact
- First day of school is August 11th
- Added grading day on Dec. 19th for teachers
- January 6-8th are half days to get students back acclimated into school schedule
- Last day of school is June 12th
- Half day every Friday
- Dr. Pinto-Taylor's goal is to get strong partnership with the YMCA to accommodate half day Fridays and overall after school care
- Amber to look into partnership with YMCA & DREW to see if there are programming we can imitate
III. Other Business
A.
Review Limited Support Proposal from 21Cobalt
- Point of Information: We are interested in continuing our relationship with 21Cobalt. We will bring this to the board in January to formally vote on continuing the contract
B.
Finalize the PDP
- Formally recognized Dr. Pinto-Taylor for his exceptional growth and successful completion of key leadership goals in Fall 2024
IV. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 9:19 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
A. Pressey