Lumen Public School
Minutes
Board Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday March 17, 2022 at 2:00 PM
Location
Lumen High School
718 W. Riverside Ave.
Suite 102
Spokane WA 99201
Directors Present
A. Estes, C. Plager (remote), G. Sementi (remote), J. Ray, L. McDonald
Directors Absent
D. McMurray, T. O'Sullivan
Guests Present
Melissa Pettey, S. Edwards, jared schatz
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Land Acknowledgement
C.
Record Attendance
D.
Approve Minutes
II. Finance
A.
Monthly Financial Report
Jared Reported on the financial reports.
B.
Auditor Presentation
Barry Weber from Eide Bailley account firm gave our prior year financial audit report.
III. Consent Agenda
A.
Approve February Payroll & AP 1478-1516
B.
Approve Policies & Procedures
IV. Updates
A.
ED Quick Updates
Student updates were given. Mask wearing mandate has ended, we are not requiring masks in Lumen for the foreseeable future as long as it is in line with the DOH recommendations for schools.
Legislative Updates- the approved funding in the budget won’t apply to Lumen because of our small schools factors.
Long term Science substitute position- we found a person we can emergency certify named Steven who will be starting in April.
DFO hiring update- Whitney will be starting in mid April to train alongside of Jared and make sure it is a good fit And then she will phase in and Jared will phase out and be a liable to consult.
V. Committees
A.
Governance
Andrea gave an equity update form our discussion last meeting. Annual items:
finalize board equity plan, board participates in annual training and at our annual meeting there is a training Around equity. Data from Lumen is given and then interactions with students are prioritized.
Data conversation around the DEI data at the Lumen/student level to be used at the state and national level, locally it doesn’t really exist and omits qualitative information and can create harmful narratives and myths.
Governance committee will take lead on bringing equity training to the board for decision making.
B.
Recruitment
Continuing to recruit candidates have several introduction conversations in the past and upcoming months.
C.
OPMA Compliance
Working with Thad to get updates OPMA compliance information about zoom and board meetings.
VI. Work Session- Academic Excellence
A.
Academic Data and Reporting
Performance management indicators before we opened compared to our performance targets that we have give currently.
Year two committee, deepening our definition of growth And how we show that.
Performance Targets- adjust some language.
B.
How we communicate our data?
Data quality campaign- and idea For a place to start.
What’s the approach and then what’s the how?
Land Acknowledgement read.