Placed on the Agenda to see if there were any changes needed for Staff Handbook.  Staff Handbook will remain unchanged for School Year 2023/2024. 

Family/Student Handbook will remain similar to the previous year.  There will be changes with respect to letter from Executive Director/Board Chair.  There will also be changes related to School Calendar and Uniform Policy Changes.  There will also be changes with the revised Code of Conduct.  

 Motion to approve Staff and  Family/Student Handbook - no changes  

Ewa ask  if stragtic plan will stay the same, ED  may ask for changes in  early fall.

We will add APS Code of Conduct revised version once we receive. 

Staff and Family Handbook will be edited   on routine dates and letter from 

ED and Board Chair.   

WIA is continuing to extend offers to new families.  Several Families have accepted offers. A couple of Grades are at capacity (2nd grade, third grade, 4th grade). WIA is trending back to having enrollment numbers back to previous years.   

We are steadly progressing and extended offers are still being made.

Max total is 92  students for each grade level.

We are on track to meet 800 students

We have 77  Kindergarten 

Max are 2, 3 and 4 (?) grades

Lisa Price acknoledges Donica Johnson, and her grooup for their efforts in 

enrollments and to Jason Marshall 

School Attorney suggested changes to Sections 3.6 and 4.5.  Discussion took place regarding changes to the By Laws.  We will present changes to Section 3.5 and 4.6.

Dicuss and vote at next board meeting on a few changes in By-Laws.  To allow

Board members to be remote.

Section 3.4  changed  "may to shall" cause for removal by board discretion.

Section 4.5  Make clear there could be alternative means to participate in Board Meetings 

remote vs in person.

Is there a need to recruit new Board Members given the current situation for WIA.  There have been three resignations from the Board.  Current number of Board Members is currently 9.  The timeline is possibly too short to recruit new Board Members for 2023/2024.  We should actively pull candidates but because of the timing it may be too tough.  We may have potential candidates who would like to join a Committee for 2023/2024 and then possibly join the Board for 2024/2025.  A list of potential candidates will be discussed and distributed.  

We will need to add a few board members for 2023-2024.

Board Members need to recruit for Development, Finance, 

Kwende and Jason have candidates  to recommend 

Possibly moving from 4 to 3 Board Committees 

Moving away from Development Committee 

Kwende ask  will Development  no longer be apart of board?

Development will be ED responsibility  and will report to board on fund raising efforts

quarterly.   

More discussion on fundraising and board involvement.  Outsourcing professional help to meet fundraising goals.  More discussion in next Board Meeting.

 Eliminating Development Committee based on lack of attendance by Board Members.  In addition, we did not meet our fundraising goal for 2022/2023 School Year.  Thought is to repurpose our efforts/resources to hopefully improve the other Committees.  Development will still be a focal point of the operation of WIA but not a Board Function.  WIA has shifted its Development function to a third party vendor.  This is the first year with that vendor.  WIA avgs. around $60 - $80K dollars raised a year.  Possible suggestion to change the Mission of the Development Committee and limit what is asked of that Committee.  This issue will be discussed at the June General Board Meeting.