Public comment: Tory Zimmermann spoke about the policy change with regardd to the waiting list. She asked the board to reconsider the vote and to consider an appeals process on a case to case basis.

Joy Prince, PTCA President reported on the yard sale success. 13 mini grants are in the works. We have almost reached our goal of 200 PTCA members. She also provided an overview of the PTCA meeting last week. 

Elementary Campus: The teachers have all joined a school based committee, and they met for the first time last Wednesday. 
Middle Campus: 4 new clubs met Monday (ie: Art club, Fit wit)

Matt researched other schools to find out if they have a permanent wait list like ANCS. Mitch opened the floor for discussion. Discussed how typically after winter break students are not normally enrolled, however their are exceptions (suggested that there be an underlying policy (possibly a hard date for when the wait list is eliminated) for this if voted to only have a yearly waitlist). Suggested to bring this idea to the committee. The vote would not impact students that are on the waitlist for the school year. 

Presented the strategic plan. Highlighted some of the old initiatives, and the new initiatives. 

Provided an update on the diversity work of the school (reasons why the school is working towards diversity, the action steps that have been taken, an equity facilitation team, and neighborhood targeting). A welcoming assessment will be done of the school. Dventually planning to engage some of this work with parents. Mckenzie Wren introduced herself, and provided a little background on her previous work. The goal is to work with the leadership team, and not have to only depend on the diversity facilitators for the diversity work. Focus on racial diversity, and economic status diversity. 

Cindy Ethridge and Jessica Story explained the process of each phase of the audit. Great detail was gone through with the Financial committee over the entire packet. Focused on the statement of financial position and the increase of the APS funding provided to the school and other cash increases. Other big revenue changes were highlighted throughout the audit (increased expenses such as the CREATE grant, salaries, staff development, and the food program). Showed graph of the change in revenue versus expenses. Clean audit!

Plans to use the audits as a management tool to stay on track with the budget. Talked about areas in the budget where things were front loaded (ie new computers, IB program). Below payment in lunch, however lunch participation is where it needs to be. Awarded grants to green grant. The grant is a matching grant. The projects will be focused at the elementary campus all of the projects have to be done within the next 12 months.

Broke down the various demographic groups of performance on the Milestones. Showed where ANCS was higher and lower in comparison to the state. Matt will take the data to the educational excellence committee. 

Talked about how we will most likely see some changes on the school board. Talked about what is coming up on the November ballot. Creating an Atlanta Charter schools working group. 

Edit: CEO needs to be changed to Executive Director. 

Discussed the committee meeting on 9/14. Matt's contract has been extended for three years. training is required for the new board members, and various conferences. 

Updating the mailer and donor card to send to grandparents. The annual campaign goal is the same as last year. Contracted date for the auction this year.