Lumen Public School
Minutes
Board Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday January 27, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Location
Lumen High School
718 W Riverside Ave.
Suite 201
Spokane WA 99201
Directors Present
A. Estes, B. Gongyin, E. Arnold, J. Ray, K. Linane-Booey, L. McDonald, P. Parr (remote), S. Hance
Directors Absent
A. Eberhardt, G. Sementi, J. Zappone
Guests Present
Julie Jones, Kaylee Spaulding, Kris Owens, Kristin Whiteaker, S. Edwards
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Land Acknowledgement
D.
Approve Board Meeting Minutes
II. Finance
A.
Financial Reports
Board heard comments from finance committee. There were no major updates or changes to the financial reports.
An update was given around the financial audit. Board members will review the audit next month.
III. Consent Agenda
A.
Approve Revised Bylaws, December Payroll, Electronic Funds transfers and Voucher numbers: 2751-2769, Policy & Procedures: 2161P, 3241/P, 2020/P, 2410P, 3210/P, 4260/P, 3416P, 5010/P, 5011/P, 6801/P
B.
Approve Board Director Recommendations
IV. Updates
A.
ED quick Updates
As always winter break can bring some harder experiences for students and the staff is working hard to make sure all students are still connected to Lumen.
We should have a couple of new students enrolling soon. Enrollment this year is following a similar trend to last year.
With small school funding, we do not have to worry about student enrollment eb and flow impacting our funding.
B.
Student spotlight
Julie, internship coordinator, introduced Kaylee Spalding as the student spotlight. Kaylee is a senior and in their second year at Lumen.
Kaylee shared some of their experience in the school. Our focus this month is staff retention and Kaylee said giving teachers a one-on-one or a chance to debrief so they can relax and just be people.
C.
SPS to Board presentation
HB 1744 - requires the authorizer (Spokane Public Schools) to meet with the authorized Charter school throughout the year. Today's conversation is a part of that requirement.
Board members can access the slides for this presentation following todays meeting. The conversation covered Charter Contract, Framework/metric evaluation, and academic framework and data.
Board members can also go to spokaneschools.org/charter to do a dep dive into charter performance.
V. Committees
A.
Event Update
The event planning is moving along well. Event Chair has garnered support from a number of different sponsors and funders are starting to roll in. Registration is live!
B.
Feasibility Study
In staying aligned with our Board Strategic Plan the board has discussed doing a feasibility study and in February we will talk more in-depth about this.
Currently we plan to develop a task force to pursue this work. This work does not require only board member engagement we can and should include community members and previous board members.
VI. Other Board Business
A.
Follow-up on housing inequity
In the December work session the board discussed a potential bill to allow students 16 and up to be able to sign and maintain their own lease. In conversations with State representatives all are in support of more housing options but some confusion on what types of students Lumen has and their unique needs. ED gave a quick break down of these different student types and roadblocks to stable housing.
Board heard land acknowledgement from students of OnTrack Academy.