F.W. Parker Charter Essential School
Minutes
Finance Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday December 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Location
Remote meeting
http://parker.school/financecommittee
http://parker.school/financecommittee
Committee Members Present
B. Harrigan (remote), B. Muldoon (remote), C. Soderman (remote), J. Appleton (remote), L. Clarke (remote), M. McKenna (remote), N. Odekirk Hatlevig (remote)
Committee Members Absent
None
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Introductions if needed
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Finance
A.
Review CD renewal plans
Committee agreed that it makes the most sense to move approximately $2.3 million into a 1 year CD and add the rest into the Money Market so that there is enough liquid cash for facilities needs this summer as well as Strategic Plan roll out costs.
B.
Implementation of Strategic Plan and Reserve Use and Staff Salary changes midyear
Committee discussed the idea of supplemental salaries coming in January or February from positive operations revenue from having 390 students instead of the budgeted 370 students. The decision of how much and whether it should be a bonus or retroactive salary adjustment will need to happen at upcoming meetings
The committee discussed the use of reserves to fund the strategic plan.
-noted that the criteria to draw funds could change over time as we are further into the plan and have already drawn some down
- Noted that the strategic plan has measure of success, but not all are monetary, noting we would need a way to measure ROI
-- wondered if we should wait for results of development consultant before making a plan for spending so we have an idea about what additional revenue is possible
- We will need to come back to what the lowest comfortable reserve level would be
- commented that there was some concern over facilities only wanting to hold $1 million of the $2.2, expected them to be more conservative
- noted that they would want a plan for adding back to Facilities reserve over time
-would like to have more details about any sort of position adjustments, what the sequence and costs would be, would there be any ROI
-want more on where we are headed in the Strategic Plan, added clarity/ some sort of Dashboard maybe?
III. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
Next meeting - hold January 6 at 5:30 as well as Jan 9 at 5:30
- Business Deposit Rate Sheet.pdf
- cash balance dec.pptx
- capital plan Board Nov 2021.pdf
- Strategic Plan 2024.pdf
- Dec 24 meeting reserves.pptx
hold until next meeting