Global Leadership Academy

Minutes

K-12 GOCA Board of Directors Meeting

K-12

Date and Time

Wednesday May 31, 2023 at 5:00 PM

Location

1252 Fromage Way, Jacksonville, FL 32225, USA

Directors Present

C. Hearn, L. Kolyesnik, L. Williams, V. Kushnar, V. Sendetskiy

Directors Absent

V. Budnik, Y. Brychka

Guests Present

A. Korchuk, Brooklyn Stabile, D. Goncharov (remote), I. Soroka, J. Chisholm, J. Galeani, J. Hemphill (remote), Luann Hoyseth (remote), Y. Degtyareva

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

L. Williams called a meeting of the board of directors of Global Leadership Academy to order on Wednesday May 31, 2023 at 5:05 PM.

II. Consent Agenda

A.

Approve Previous Board Minutes 04-18-2023

B.

Monthly Financials (K-12) March/April 2023

Mr. Goncharov has reported that the CSP grant for the Intercoastal is still in review but the CSP office began reviewing the budgets we've submitted to them. The CSP office said that only 15 percent of the schools that were awarded the CSP grants received their final approvals.

C.

GOCA Intercoastal Amendment

Intercoastal administration is recommending for the Board to approve a Charter Amendment to increase our enrollment cap to 850 students.

D.

Charter Amendment for GOCA High School

High School administration is recommending for the Board to approve a Charter Amendment to increase our enrollment cap to 700 students.

E.

LLC Buy out furniture/equipment from GOCA Intercoastal

Dmitriy Goncharov is recommending for the Board to approve the purchase and sale of furniture and equipment by GOCA Properties, LLC from GOCA Intercoastal. 

F.

Approval of Purchase of Furniture/equipment for Intercoastal

GOCA Intercoastal needs to purchase furniture/equipment to replace furniture sold to GOCA Properties LLC. Multiple quotes were solicited, and the school is recommending for the Board to approve a purchase of all the furniture and equipment from one vendor, Blue Ocean Construction, which provided very good package for GOCA Intercoastal.

G.

Uniform Sale

Dmitriy Goncharov is recommending for the Board to approve for GOCA schools to partner with Fine Designs to make the uniform purchases more convenient for parents. GOCA solicited contracts from multiple vendors. Fine Designs was the only vendor that offered to come to our campuses during orientation and first week of school to sell uniforms so it was convenient for parents. The vendor will bring their uniform and POS equipment to allow our front desk staff to sell uniforms during the school year.

H.

Speech Therapy Contract

Ilya Soroka is recommending for the Board to approve the renewal of the contract with Florida Kids Therapy that has been providing services to the schools for the past 10 years. The contact is for three years. Two additional quotes have been requested from other Speech Therapy Providers to compare the rates.

I.

Student Application Deadline Extension

Ilya Soroka is recommending for the Board to approve student application deadline extension for GOCA schools. All GOCA Schools are currently still enrolling in the grade levels that have available seats. To allow parents to submit enrollment applications for those grade levels, the application deadline needs to be extended.

III. Public Comments

A.

Public Comments

No public comments

IV. Approval of Consent Agenda

A.

Approval of Consent Agenda

C. Hearn made a motion to approve the consent agenda.
L. Kolyesnik seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

V. Discussion Items

A.

Purchase of School Bus and Work van for facilities

Ilya Soroka presented the need and recommends for approval the purchase of a school bus for students to be transported between campuses and for sports games, and a work van for the facilities department. The school has the funds available to make both purchases.  

V. Kushnar made a motion to approve two separate purchase orders one for the student bus not to exceed $125,000 and work van not to exceed $35,000.
L. Kolyesnik seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

B.

Educational Services to Service Provider Discussion.

Ilya Soroka had presented the list of services that the service provider will offer to the schools. 

The list of services was reviewed by the school's attorney. The sub committee will be assigned to this project to review the list of services proposed and ensure that it is aligned with the current and future needs of the schools. 

C.

CEO Contract

Larry Williams the chairperson presented a recommendation to amend the CEO contract to increase the compensation to the CEO compensation of 2021-2022. Retroactively pay and tune up the salary. 

V. Kushnar made a motion to approve an amendment of the CEO contract.
C. Hearn seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

D.

Sub Committee to workshop the Service Agreement Scope

The sub committee will be assigned to review proposed service provider services and ensure that it is aligned with the current and future needs of the schools. The sub committee will meet on June 14th for a workshop and will report out to the board of directors on June 22nd. 

 

Sub committee will consist of: 

 

GOCA's legal representative - Shawn Arnold

Service provider's legal representative - Jeff Wood

GOCA Chairman of the Board - Larry Williams

GOCA Board Member - Victoria Budnik

GOCA Board Member - Lyudmila Kolyesnik

GOCA Consultant - Joseph Chisholm

 

 

VI. Board Comments

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:00 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
L. Williams