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Brooklyn RISE Charter School

Brooklyn RISE Board Meeting

Published on July 24, 2023 at 6:53 PM EDT
Amended on July 26, 2023 at 8:26 PM EDT

Date and Time

Wednesday July 26, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT

Location

9 Hanover Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201

"Brooklyn RISE builds the knowledge, habits, and mindsets for academic success, ensuring all kindergarten through fifth grade students are on the path to college.”

Agenda

      Purpose Presenter Time
I. Opening Items 7:00 PM
  A. Record Attendance   Grace Han 1 m
  B. Call the Meeting to Order   Christina Hu 1 m
  C. Public Comment   5 m
II. Finance Committee 7:07 PM
 

We discussed the monthly dashboard

 

Staff gave an enrollment update and discussed ongoing budget strategies 

  
  A. Dashboard FYI EdTech 15 m
   

No financial presentation for July meeting as June is a soft close. We are closing out FY23 and preparing for audit. 

 

We will be wrapping up the renewal budgets by 7/31. 

 

June YE financials will be presented in Aug. Jul/Aug will be presented in Sept. 

  
III. SLT Update 7:22 PM
  A. School Updates Discuss Cary Finnegan 10 m
   

Dear Founding Board of Trustees,

 

This summer has been an opportunity for us to reflect and reset as we prepare to enter into Year 5 of our school's journey!
 

  • Our Students. We remain at the same 270 number but are planning on doing a recruitment push at the beginning of August to hopefully get our final enrollment number as close to 300 as possible.
  • Our Staff. We are spending time this summer preparing our summer professional development programming so that we can hit the ground running when new staff return on August 4th and all staff return on August 7th!
  • Our Facility. We are in a bit of a holding pattern at the moment with our forever facility planning because of focus on our annual report and renewal submissions, but are planning to re-focus on this aspect of our work next month.

Looking forward to meeting as a group this Wednesday!


Together we RISE,

SLT

  
IV. Academic Committee
 

School on summer vacation.

  
V. Governance Committee 7:32 PM
  A. Updated By-laws Vote Katie Zaunbrecher 10 m
   

1. Update to By-Laws

2. Cover Letter to updated By-Laws Changes

  
     
     
  B. Cover Letter Proposal for Expanding Grades Vote Cary Finnegan 10 m
     
     
  C. Cover Letter Proposal for Key Design Elements Change Vote Cary Finnegan 10 m
     
     
  D. Cover Letter Proposal Organization Leadership Structure Change Vote Cary Finnegan 10 m
     
     
     
     
  E. Cover Letter Proposal for Charter Renewal Application Vote Cary Finnegan 10 m
     
  F. Housekeeping and Open Meeting Compliance Discuss Christina Hu 5 m
   

1. Post Meeting Date 7 days priors to the meeting

2. Post Agenda 3 days prior to meeting date

3. Share Meeting Time, Agenda, and Meeting on our public forum

4. All board members to finish updating profile on BoardOnTrack

5. Please schedule fingerprinting by the July board meeting

6. Please all complete the Head of School evaluation

  
VI. Other Business 8:27 PM
  A. Facility FYI Cary Finnegan 5 m
   

Placeholder for any updates:

1. current home lease extension discussion

2. $200,000 reimbursement from current lease

3. forever home lease updates

  
  B. Development FYI Cary Finnegan 5 m
   

Placeholder for any fundraiser updates

  
VII. Closing Items 8:37 PM
  A. Approve June Minutes Approve Minutes Grace Han 5 m
   

Approve meeting minutes from June.

  
    Minutes for Brooklyn RISE Board Meeting on June 21, 2023  
  B. Approve July Meeting Minute Vote Christina Hu 5 m
     
     
  C. Adjourn Meeting Discuss 1 m