Kate Boyer ask that everyone finish Evaluation for ED in Board On Track.

All Board Members Need 9 hours.    80% of board members have completed.  Everyone has received an email that needs additional hours.

Rating on assesssment.  89% has been completed.

Areas to improve are ED Succession Plan and Board implementation.

ED give thanks to families and teachers for all their hardwork.  He gives farewell to Mazie-Lynn and Gayle Barnett for their years of service as board members.

Big thanks to Kate Boyer for  serving as our Board Chair and is happy to announce 

she has agreed to serve as Board Chair for Y24-25.

Testing is looking good and trending in the right direction.

Lots of work has been put into this work and it has paid off.

Rachel Goodman will go over results in Academics.

Its budget season and lots has been discussed over the past few months  Lisa Price will go over the budget,  but we now  have the largest budget in Wesley History.  Our goal  is to see teachers compensated for their hard work and fund resources to help student and teachers be successful.

Graduation was at the Georgia Aquarium  and it was well attended.

The following projects will start week of June 10 and our plan is to have 

them completed mid-July.

• Audio Visual in Cafeteria.  8 Monitors will be installed in cafeteria with audio placedas well.  This will be streamed with Auditorium audio/visual but it also can run independently.This will be very benefical for events, teacher meetings and instruction.

• Shades for playground

• Electric Gate

• New Vestibule  (Provided by APS)
• Evolve (Security)
• We will be reaching out to schools that have moved to give us in site for next year.

Recap goals:

Board Recruitment

Review bylaws

Enrollment Stratagy

New Board Member Committee:

Kwende Jones ask for volunteers

The following agreed to be on New Board Member Committee:

Doug Hrabe

Seneca Williams

Adrain Hunter

Obi Okwara

Imani Christie

Executive Director Committee:

The following members have been nominated 

Kate Boyer - Board Chair

Kwende Jones - Co-Chair

Adrian Hunter - Secretary 

Obi  - Finance

Move to vote

Pavone gives updates on improvements.  Attendance for student  has improved which improves academic performance.

 Scores for reading  are up 10% .

In math  we did not see as much growth but standards changed this year which had an impact on scores.  New curriculum will help Wesley with standard change. 

STEM training has improved and most teachers have completed their training .

• Literacy training will start this school year and  it will be a year to see results.
• More project based learning.
• State is rolling out  new system, more of a tiered program for students.

Lisa Price presents proposed budget:

WIA will develop a balanced budget

We want to be competitive in compensation.  We are 95% of APS 2024 Salary Scale.

Health care and pension will affect budget; numbers are not in yet.

Wesley always has 30-45 days of pay for staff in   unrestricted funds. 

Baseline for Enrollment.  822 Baseline before COVID after COVID its 748.

QBE 4% increase 

Local Tax 9%

Over 1 million for  WIA (local revenue and one time occurrence)

Federal Funds 750K

Lisa Price will be reaching out for help with this process.

Salary Recommendations:

Adjust to 95% of APS pay scale

All staff will receive a step increase

Base Salary for a new teacher has gone from 50k to 60k

Classified will adjust to 4% and step increase and  $2500 retention

ED speaks with excitement  about salary for Wesley Staff

People stay because they like the culture and now teachers will be

compensated as well.

Budget is attached

The board will hold a special board meeting next week to finalize new board members.