Implications of the 2020 Budget Act

• Goes into effect October 1, 2020
• minutes must be posted within 30 business days
• Minutes must be recorded within 7 days or detailed minutes must be posted 

Compliance with Open Meetings Act 

• Governing bodies of public charter schools are subject to the act
• Meeting = quorum of the board together, social events are exceptions, does not include email meetings or subcommittee meetings 

Meetings can be closed:

• Student issues where they could be personally identified
• DCPCSB evaluation in a Board meeting

If meetings are remote must make a reasonable effort to ensure that public is aware and can access 

• Notices are required and must be posted electronically and in hard copy in various locations, and include date, time, location, agenda and if there is a planned closed session 

Open and closed meetings must be recorded and and preserved for at least 5 years 

Must include draft and final meeting agendas 

Meetings if cancelled should be cancelled at least 48 hours in advance 

Must notify the public at the same time as the Board if there is an emergency meeting 

School Transparency Plans

• requires all charter schools to post specific plans and documents on the website 

OMA Compliance 

• Board training before October 1st
• Will need to be taken on by a committee
• Would need to update our Board manual 

Big Takeaways:

• Publicize when and where meetings will take place
• Provide agenda ahead of time
• Hold meetings in a publicly accessible space
• Make a record available of the meeting 

There are some additional next steps including submitting a new calendar, updating the board manual, selecting a consistent note-taker 

• Funding Principles (compare with 2016 Latin Reserve Memo)
• Board Operating Reserve
• Equivalent to three months of the Latin A operating expense
• Questions: the reserve would support the LEA as a whole, not be split among Latin A and Latin B
• Latin A and Latin B would have different instructional leaders and teams, but one back office (recruitment, finance, etc.)
• Discussion of Latin Pride funding and fundraising for Latin B - how independent would fundraising for the two schools be? 

Motion to approve top up the reserves, not to approve the funding related to Latin Pride and fundraising 

• Discussion of which wards to include in the resolution
• Decision to leave out wards 1 and 3 out of the resolution

• Diana Smith updated the Board on the beginning of the year 
• School is currently 100% remote learning
• Silver linings: school culture has held, teachers exploring new pedagogies, and seniors have new and developmentally appropriate flexibility 
• We continue to work hard to make sure we have done 1:1 computers 
• Increasing Internet access and speed of those families that need it 
• We do have three classes that are being conducted onsite - choir, band, and chemistry 

• Bill is slated for mark up at end of September 
• Hopeful it will pass 

• Director of Development candidates are being interviewed 
• Two of these are being reviewed now 
• Aspiring Leaders Program has launched with two fellows 
• Three resident interns from NYU are teaching with us 
• Two alums are doing counseling internships this year 

• Continued work to find a property for a second campus. 
• Hoping to have progress in the next month.

Academic Excellence
    Chair: Alyse 

Audit
    Chair: Patrick

Development
    Chair: Barry

Facilities
    Chair: Laurie

Finance
    Chair: Tim

Governance
    Chair: Ken

Board Work This Year

• Charter renewal - March for another hearing, April for another vote
• 15th year anniversary
• compensation study
• Transparency 
• DEI
• Growth
• Monitoring learning during COVID

Calendar has been sent out 
Meeting may need to be added before November Board Retreat 

Recruitment update

• Alyse passing baton to Ken
• Looking at pipeline of candidates and deciding on next steps
• Ken will follow up with the Governance committee and the Board 
• Board may need to have a meeting in October to approve new members 

Three separate documents to sign
Must be signed and scanned and sent to Caitlin or can be set up in DocuSign