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

A. Tolliver called a meeting of the board of directors of Atlanta Smart Academy to order on Monday Dec 5, 2022 at 5:36 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes

V. Williams made a motion to approve the minutes from Board Meeting on 09-06-22.
I. Lee seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.
I. Lee made a motion to approve the minutes from Board Meeting on 10-03-22.
J. Grimes seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

we need to address November and December minutes at our next board meeting;

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

 

 

B.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:46 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
A. Tolliver