Lumen Public School
Minutes
Special Meeting
Date and Time
Friday February 26, 2021 at 8:45 AM
Directors Present
C. Plager (remote), D. McMurray, J. Ray (remote), T. O'Sullivan (remote)
Directors Absent
C. Davis Jones
Guests Present
S. Edwards (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
J. Ray called a meeting of the board of directors of Lumen Public School to order on Friday Feb 26, 2021 at 8:46 AM.
B.
Land Acknowledgement
C.
Record Attendance
D.
Approve Minutes
T. O'Sullivan made a motion to approve the minutes from Board Meeting on 01-15-21.
D. McMurray seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Finance
A.
Monthly Financials
Jared -
- working to improve donations
- CSD Funding moving along - expect to claim all of it
- Salaries and Benefits going as expected - 42% through the year
- Future discussions to pay off loan / GLOW
- We are in the positive - looks good and healthy
III. Consent Agenda
A.
Approve Approve January Payroll & AP #1098-1021
T. O'Sullivan made a motion to Approve.
C. Plager seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
B.
Approval of Policy & Procedures
- Health Policies and Procedures - Nurse Tracey - standard templates
Blood Pathogen training - is staff in compliance?
- WASDA membership discussion
- Facilities Policies and Procedures -
Charge rental / reservation fee?
Possibly insert same wording for reservation as rental - need to have internal procedure or decision matrix to decide.
D. McMurray made a motion to Approve.
C. Plager seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
IV. Executive Director/ Principal updates
A.
Organization Updates
Principal updates:
- Focus on staff culture - more trauma training - very proactive
- Student Culture - feels like a normal HS - new students at semester
- Cohort meetings - empowering students to help problem solve - age group conversations
Dress Code?
- Seniors - what will graduation look like - student lead
- Positive parent calls
- Intervention - where are the educational gaps - especially elementary years - small group intervention throughout the day
- Social and Emotional parenting - safety - car seat - 5 free car seats given away
Parenting plan clinic coming up partnering with GU
- Community Movie - Listen - recommended
- New Students - 17 new students at semester
- Shifted to 2 days week
- Special Education 4 days week
- Identified students that it is important to be at school for safety reasons
- 28 early learning children
- 5 more students on the waiting list to start Quarter 4
- Exhausting being in a Pandemic
ED Updates -
- Following up on every lead to get staff vaccinated - on all the lists
- Unify? Another 500 shots today - hope that educators will get on the waitlist
- Women helping Women grant - hopeful - they are positively impressed
- Larry H Miller - grant going in - maybe fund general operations
- Co-writing with WSU for Innovia - launches 20 year research project - Accelerator grants - TBD
- Innovia Grant - Community - haven’t heard back yet
- OSPI funding for summer school - could this be an option??? - Jared is looking into -
B.
Early Learning Update
Facilities - GLOW into permanent home - Blessing celebration this Sunday - open house this Sunday - Light and Positivity to the building - new transitions to figure out since they next door. Working on plan to fill rooms. Could potentially have full infant room and need an additional space.
- ECAP in GLOW
- Funding in GLOW - 6 weeks delayed - hiring classroom assistants
V. Development Committee
A.
Top Priorities
- Development update - Met with Amy - 3 priorities -
1. Launch Moment of the month - goal to have 100 donors 2. Summer Series - activities for students outside school 3. Illuminate the Night Sponsorship - plan to do in the Fall
VI. Governance
A.
Board Recruitment
- Governance updates - met with Cleve and Amanda to talk about Board membership / open to being involved on committee.
Goal to get to 9 Board Members.
Actively seeking members - 2 more candidates to discuss - Roberta (Masters program at Whitworth)
Sheila - ran original “Gateway to College”
Amy and Jordan have transitioned off the Board
B.
OPMA Compliance
- OPMA Compliance - we could technically be in person for Board Meetings - Thad - too complicated
at this point - upstairs could be an option.
- Meeting Time - moving towards evening meeting - flexible in this - 4:30 explore this time M-Th.
4:30 Monday every month - see if this works - 3rd or the 4rth of each month. March 15th 4:30 next meeting.
VII. Closing Items
A.
Executive Session
B.
Adjourn Meeting
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 9:55 AM.
Respectfully Submitted,
T. O'Sullivan
Documents used during the meeting
- Board Report 20210131.pdf
- Board Payment Approval.docx