Global Leadership Academy

Minutes

K-12 Board of Directors Meeting

K-12 (VIRTUAL)

Date and Time

Thursday June 27, 2024 at 4:30 PM

Directors Present

C. Hearn (remote), L. Williams (remote), V. Budnik (remote), V. Sendetskiy (remote)

Directors Absent

L. Kolyesnik, V. Kushnar, Y. Brychka

Guests Present

D. Goncharov (remote), G. Stickel (remote), I. Soroka (remote), J. Hemphill (remote), Lianna Knight (remote), Y. Degtyareva (remote)

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 Thursday Jun 27, 2024 at 4:32 PM.

II. Consent Agenda

A.

Approve Previous Board Minutes 5/23/24

C. Hearn made a motion to approve the minutes from K-12 Board of Directors Meeting on 05-23-24.
V. Budnik seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

B.

May Financial Statements

Dmitriy Goncharov provided the monthly financials statements for May, 2024 and recommends board approval. 

C.

2024-25 Policy and Handbook Updates

Recommendation for approval of the updated key policies around compensation & paid time off which reflects 2024-25 targets. 

The Progressive Discipline & the Employee Handbook have been updated to reflect Global's new name and legislative updates related to school safety.

D.

MOU with JSO for Alyssa's Alert

Approval to renew the MOU every three years with JSO to allowing them access to our emergency alert system (RAPTOR).

E.

Opening Clubs accounts for schools

Approval for school club accounts  for afterschool activities that require collecting funds and issuing checks. Each school needs the account.

F.

K-12 Monthly Board Meetings: 2024-2025 Schedule

Approval of the presented K-12 Monthly Board Meetings: 2024-2025 Schedule.

G.

Approval of hire of a previously out of field employee

DCPS always recommends that an individual that was previously found to be out of field and has not satisfied the requirement is not eligible for hire. This is only a recommendation by our office and can be overruled by your board. Keep in mind that if the educator has not completed the out of field requirement and is subsequently placed in an out of field position, even for one day, Global Outreach Charter Academy may be subject to fines in an FEFP audit. This employee will work for Intercoastal and Mr. Stickel has verified that she will not be placed out of field.

H.

School Recognition Bonus Lists to Ratify

The board approved the previous school votes on how to distribute the school recognition funds, now presented the names of who received the bonus to ratify.

I.

Disposition of Items

IT and Facilities identified capitalized items that have reached the end of their useful life and need to be disposed. Presented list with highlighted items.

J.

Disposition of Non-capitalized items

IT department identified the non-capitalized items that reached their useful life and need to be retired. All laptops that either broken or not useful any longer. They might use some of them for parts and recycle the other ones. Projectors that were used in classrooms are at the end of their useful life as well and are no longer used because smart boards were installed.

K.

Transfer of Chromebooks to Arts from Intercoastal

The Arts school needs more Chromebook than what were included in CSP budget due to budget limitations. On the other hand, Intercoastal campus has Chromebooks that were purchased with funds loaned to Intercoastal by General Funds of K-8 and GOCA Properties LLC. As a result, these Chromebook can be used by any school. Since Arts budget is very limited it's recommended to transfer 60 Chromebooks to Arts school from Intercoastal.

L.

Board of Directors Officers Re-Appointments

Board of Directors Officers Re-Appointed.  ( 2yrs) 

1 Larry Williams 

3 Veniamin Kushnar 

5 Yaroslav Brychka 

7 Victor Sendetskiy 

M.

Global Arts Wellness Plan

For the inaugural year, Global Arts has created a Wellness Plan to ensure students have healthy food choices as well as an appropriate health curriculum. Recommendation for approval.

N.

Global Arts Safety Plan

For its inaugural year, Global Arts created a Safety Plan that includes procedures and contact information for all safety measures. Recommendation for board review and approval before implementation.

O.

Engagement Letter for Arts school for Independent Auditor

School needs to sign an engagement letter with independent auditor to perform financial audits. It would make sense to stay with Coleman And Associates to keep everything under the same roof. Engagement letter as presented.

P.

Reading Plans

All GLOBAL schools submitted their individual reading plans. Recommendation to review and approve as presented.

Q.

Safety Updates

Some new safety-related legislature has been released. All schools must comply with them by incorporating the updates into School Safety Policies. Recommendation for approval.

III. Approval of Consent Agenda

A.

Approval of Consent Agenda

C. Hearn made a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented.
V. Budnik seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

IV. Discussion Items

A.

Wetland Credit Purchase for Soccer Fields

V. Budnik made a motion to approve the Wetland credit purchase for soccer fields as presented.
V. Sendetskiy seconded the motion.

Ilya Soroka presented and recommends the approval to purchase Wetland credits for impact of wetlands behind the Grizzly Building for the soccer fields. The source of funding is the Bond proceeds we borrowed in 2023. Our budget for the fields is $1,500,000.

The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

B.

2024-2025 Preliminary Annual Budget

V. Budnik made a motion to approve the Prelimanry 2024-2025 Budgets for High School, K8 Discovery, K7 Intercoastal and K6 Arts.
C. Hearn seconded the motion.

Dmitriy Goncharov presented the 2024-25 Preliminary Budgets.

The board VOTED to approve the motion.

C.

Amendment to Service Provider agreement to include Global Arts

C. Hearn made a motion to approve the second Amendment to add Global Arts to the service provider agreement.
V. Budnik seconded the motion.

Ilya Soroka presented the updated Service Provider Agreement. The Global Arts was not initially included in the agreement between Outreach Education and Global. Now that Global Arts has been established we need to include it in the agreement with the Service provider.

The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

V. 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 5:11 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
L. Williams