Ken Merritt talked in detail about the WLPCS Board of Governors long range priorities:

• effective strategic planning
• more development and advocacy
• better stakeholder engagement
• efficient governance and collaborations

There was a suggestion to focus on academic performance as one of the priorities.

TO DO : board members to complete BOY paperwork

Peter Anderson presented the mission and the vision of the WLPCS strategic plan and elaborated on the details of ONE LATIN.

ONE LATIN:

• shared vision
• collaborative action
• collective responsibility

In the executive report, Peter Anderson noted that there is a strong retention rate of staff and faculty. He also (re)introduced the WLPCS leadership structure and teams, and shared about the INSPIRE GRANT that had over 20 grantees for summer 2023.

The highlights and the challenges of the school year were discussed.

Geovanna Izurieta showed slides of the June 2023 financials, which includes the finance reports packet that has been previously reviewed by the finance committee and shared with the full board. SY22-23 closed with a strong net income. The school has a $3M surplus, including $1.8M from the ERC (Employee Retention Credit) revenue.

There is a need to raise $3M for facilities (in addition to the operational goals) preferably before construction starts at KIROV in approximately 15 months.

Geovanna Izurieta also gave an update about the charter teacher pay status. WLPCS will be receiving funding from the OSSE-WTU contract at the end of September 2023.

Alyse Graham spoke briefly about the scope and sequence of the academic committee.

There was a presentation about "Teaching in the Latin Way as the Foundation for our Performance Management System" by Caroline Gifford. She emphasized the 6 "universal" beliefs that anchor the WLPCS vision of excellent teaching.

After the presentation, a question was asked followed by a discussion about the topic.

Barry Caldwell gave a quick snapshot of the development dashboards and the capital campaign dashboard. WLPCS is almost 60% towards the capital campaign fundraising goal.

TO DO : achieve 100% board participation in the fundraising effort

TO DO : board members to update their "relationship mapping tool" information

According to Tom Porter, the shared use agreement between WLPCS and YuYing is signed and the shared site work has started. The property has been subdivided and the YuYing parcel will be transferred by the beginning of October 2023.

The final design phase of the new WLPCS building (and value engineering) is currently in process.

03 Oct 2023 Tue @ 9:30am : AJC groundbreaking at 4301 Harewood Rd NE WDC 20017