B. Schilling abstained as she was not present at the last board meeting. 

A. Brown submitted her resignation last week as she was promoted in her job translating into more time commitment. 
This leaves a vacancy on the board.  

Reminder for board pledges and donations 
Reminder for the gala coming up on April 6.  Reminder to let us know of any existing relationship with any businesses on the list from the DDD that we can approach warmly for support. The email was initially sent out in November and a reminder was sent in December. MR is asking to get attention to this item by the end of the month. 

LAPCS National Charter Schools Conference

• Lawyers who attend can get the benefit of getting the ethics certification along with CLEs 
• LAPCS' focus is on reserving the charter movement not necessarily on the mission of the membership (schools). 
• Schools have very different needs and level of understanding of capital funding. 

 

The head report was presented. 
A reminder of the bowling with parents event, the date has been changed to February 6 at 5:30 at Rock n' bowl 
A budget adjustment is on the works, we will re-budget on 520 students to be more conservative on our projections
Thank you for getting the ethics training completed. 
Graduation date was updated to May 24 at 10:00 am at Xavier University. 

There is an endeavor agreement on the works with another type 2 charter schools with language emphasis so that enrollnola algorithm takes this request in consideration. 

We completed a winter training regarding goal setting and achievable outcomes that we can measure toward progress. 

 

The last meeting for the committee was in November. The next meeting will take place in February 12th at 6:00 PM to review outcomes and charter. 

SW presented a plan to support the improvement of our SPS in answer to the query from the board of what can the board do to support academic improvement. 

We anticipated for some of the outcomes we currently have therefore put in place some changes such as adopting programs such as agile minds and HNH yet some other variables were not considered. This time around, we are considering all different angles and a proposal was put together to provide more academic support. This includes staff support to guide our students' academic improvement. The ask is for the board to approve the use of funds at this moment which represents a half year expenditure that would come out of fund balance. 
SW anticipates that next year this expense will be absorbed by the operating budget. 
AT asked what will be the measure to determined if this initiative and investment was successful. SW explained that the state-test results. We will know ACT scores in June, the rest of the state testing results will become available after the summer. we will see improvement in the internal assessment results. The intent is to move all students to the next level.
We already have students that have registered for ACT prep classes. We are pushing through ACT prep-questions during advisory and encouraging students interest with candy. 
AT asked what are the targets that we will monitor to assess the return in this investment.  AB explained that the growth will be assessed periodically to determine whether or not to move forward with this initiative. 
SW explained that if we don't do anything at this point, we will end up in the same place we were last year. We need to inject resources to support our teachers and students to get better. 



 
 

The committee has not met in a couple of months, the department ticket report was presented by MS. 
The renderings from the small center were presented in the agenda packet. They will be present at the next board meeting to present better the outcomes of this project. 

AT asked was is the status of OPSB sharing with us the list of architects they are engaging with so we can use their services as well. 

At the last meeting, the auditor came to share his findings and final report of the audit. We were found in good shape. 
 

Rob is not present tonight. There was no meeting this month, there is a meeting coming up in February. 

The committee met this month. The departments' attention is focused on the Gala and the other events presented in the agenda packet. 
BS reminded board members to let Ms. Williams know about contacts she can reach out to send sponsorship/donation letters. 
Every board member will get 10 tickets to sell. There is an early bird discount of 10% 

If board members buy all 10 tickets, that could count as their board donation. 
The silent auction will be available online. 

MR shared with the board a volunteering opportunity for a Wednesday at the Square. There are different volunteer capacities. They usually look for a group of 10. 6:00 - 8:00 pm We have the ability to select the date. MR will send out the availability of dates. 

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