Lumen Public School

Minutes

Board Meeting

Date and Time

Thursday September 16, 2021 at 2:00 PM

Location

Lumen High School
718 W. Riverside Ave. 
Suite 201
Spokane WA 99201

Directors Present

C. Plager, D. McMurray, J. Ray, T. O'Sullivan (remote)

Directors Absent

C. Davis Jones, H. Eddy

Guests Present

Jared Schatz, Linda McDonald, S. Edwards

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 Thursday Sep 16, 2021 at 2:02 PM.
Amend the Agenda to separate the board appointees and the ed evaluation. Go into executive session twice.
T. O'Sullivan made a motion to Approve the amended agenda in section 7.
D. McMurray seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

B.

Land Acknowledgement

C.

Record Attendance

D.

Approve Minutes

C. Plager made a motion to approve the minutes from Special Meeting on 08-19-21.
T. O'Sullivan seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

II. Finance

A.

Monthly Financials

Cory - 5% under budget.  8% budget in revenue - due to Covid impacts.  
We did not overspend - budget is looking solid.  

III. Consent Agenda

A.

Approve August Payroll & AP #1283, 1299-1319

C. Plager made a motion to Approve August AP.
T. O'Sullivan seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

B.

Approve Policies & Procedures

C. Plager made a motion to Policies and Procedures 6801 & 6114.
J. Ray seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

IV. ED Updates

A.

Quick Items

- Picnic in the park - everyone attended 
- All school meeting - stop vandalizing our bathrooms 
- Open House at Lumen - pretty well attended, business owners, health district, design team - and there has been additional tours afterwards 
- Started School - everyone was here in person, all learning together.  Founding students have come back with sense of pride, safety, and ownership - more engaged. 
- So far attendance has been consistent and good.  
- Teachers feel more energy.  
- Americorps Vista candidate - still up on the website.  Job is still open. 
 

V. Committee Updates

A.

Development Committee

- Illuminate the Night - Class schedule with drinks and foods.  Sponsored by different restaurants.  Video playing at each station.  7:00 - all school meeting - auction - dessert.  (Exercise in poverty - game of life with a tickets.) The key is getting guests here, make sure details don’t overwhelm the committee.  
- We need auction items.  Cabins - tickets 
- Victory video company 
- Tickets go live next week - available to purchase.  Max it out around 200 people.  
- Social media push.  Email will go out to invite.  
- Price per ticket - discussion. $25 or $50 sounds about right. Sponsorship - could sponsor a certain table.  
- Tiers of Sponsorship - each level gets you a certain amount of tickets.  
- Fundraiser Goal - 70,000 - 80,000 - but what is realistic in this environment.  

VI. Governance

A.

Board Recruitment

General Governance reminders - minutes completed at every committee meeting.  
- Recruitment - candidates proposing - recommends Linda McDonald, Gene Sementi 
- Gene Sementi - highly recommended.  Tremendous thinker and leader - retired and local.  
- Linda McDonald - Worked at Lumen for a year, retired in June - executive admin.  Worked with teen parents since 2009. Bring different perspective to the Board.  
- Meeting invites 
- Adjusted some of the rhythm of formal evaluation - proposed change March academic review, 
Governance Updates
- Proposed change of rhythm of evaluation to work with a school year - March academic evaluation 
- Acknowledge you received email with 72 hours 
- Communicate often and over communicate about your capacity and meeting attendance.  
 

B.

ED Evaluation

Discussion about Ed evaluation, Memo and Goals.
 

VII. Closing Items

A.

Executive Session

Discussion the qualifications of recommendations of board members to the Board.  
Length of term? 
LinkedIn Account for Lumen - look into getting this started. 
 

B.

Vote on Candidates Gene Sementi and Linda McDonald

C. Plager made a motion to Approve Board members - LInda and Gene.
T. O'Sullivan seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

C.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 3:32 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
J. Ray