Atlanta Smart Academy
Minutes
Board Meeting
Date and Time
Monday December 5, 2022 at 5:30 PM
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Our monthly Board Meetings, unless otherwise noted, will be held the 1st Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom and are open to the public.
Up to 20 minutes will be set aside for public commentary at all board meetings. Those wishing to comment must send a request to the Board Secretary by 12:00pm NOON the day of the board meeting (lharden@atlantasmartacademy.org).
Each speaker will have 2 minutes to share with the Board. Speakers will be timed by a member of the Board and notified when time has expired.
The Public Comment period is designed to gain input from the public and not for immediate responses by the Board to the public comment presented. If there are questions or information that you have for the Board, you may also contact one or more of the Board members.
Our monthly Finance Committee Meetings, unless otherwise noted, will be held the 2nd Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom and are open to the public.
Our monthly Academics and Governance Committee Meetings, unless otherwise noted, will be held the 3rd Monday of each month at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom and are open to the public.
Directors Present
A. Tolliver (remote), I. Lee (remote), J. Grimes (remote), R. Price (remote), S. Williamson (remote), V. Williams (remote)
Directors Absent
K. Willingham, L. Harden, S. Fortson
Guests Present
Candy Yu (remote), pmeadows@atlantasmartacademy.org (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
D.
Whirl-around
Board shared their holiday traditions
II. Work Plan
A.
Academics and Governance - working to build out the board and junior board; need to discuss academic data from SCSC at next committee meeting
B.
Finance - Finance training this coming Sunday via Zoom
Updates from Candy Yu (CFO) regarding budget; doing better than projected; more in depth coverage at our training
III. Executive Director Updates
A.
Executive Director Board Report
Highlights, Academics, Operations, and Finance updates from the school leader
STEAM Day, Homecoming/Blue Angels athletics department, skating fundraiser, Big Dreams project took a group of students to Disney
CCRPI scores released; did not meet in academics in comparison to the state; math is an area of greatest concern and have put plans in place to address the deficit.
Operation expansion; board needs to review and discuss construction/lease contract
Create final list of requests and send to Patrice by Wednesday, once a final draft is created and approved by SCSC, then we can vote on this as a board
Finance recap of GALA and auction
Adam and Ivan will send out donation and thank you letters
IV. Closing Items
A.
Key Dates
New Board Member Training and Finance Training 12/11/22
Finance, Facility, Development, and Strategic Partnership Meeting 12/12/22
Academic and Governance Committee Meeting 12/19/22
Next Board Meeting 1/9/22
we need to address November and December minutes at our next board meeting;