Whatcom Intergenerational High School
Minutes
Board Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday September 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Location
Hybrid meeting
The in-person location is WIHS Campus, 1 Bellis Fair Pkwy Suite 104, Bellingham, WA 98229
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Time: Jan 25, 2024 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Directors Present
A. Juarez Cordova (remote), D. Smiles (remote), J. Johnson (remote), N. Mughal-Barrows (remote), P. Freeland (remote)
Directors Absent
M. Hudson
Ex Officio Members Present
D. Walker
Non Voting Members Present
D. Walker
Guests Present
A. Lindgren (remote), C. Kolk, E. Zamora, Halma Abubakar (remote), J. Fochtman (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance & Welcome
C.
Land Acknowledgement
D.
Mission & Vision
Choral read by board members and guests
E.
Approve Minutes
F.
Consent Agenda
Patrick- wanted to share from the Financial Committee meeting- items 4, 5, 6a and 6b notes from Katie Silberstein at JGB explained why decreases of revenue and SAO audit finding that OSPI could recover $88,000, but that is dependent on OSPI final decision.
II. Public Comment
A.
Public Comment
No one present or online for public comment
III. School Updates
A.
Enrollment Update
Julia and Anders presented on current enrollment.
- Getting close to our October Count date- budgeted number was 97
- WIHS has 111 confirmed enrolled students and has exceeded our goal
- It will be a strong point with renewal that we now have a waitlist for grade 9 and we have backfilled the current 10th grade class
B.
Presentation by School Team
C.
WIHS Academic Overview
Dawn Walker shared the school updates, expanding on the current enrollment information received from Julia and Anders.
Average daily attendance from 8/28-9/26 was 88.36%, and a consistent rate each day without drops that occurred last year.
CEB met for the 2nd time of the 24-25 school year, and scheduled meetings with 2 families at that time. There are two additional meetings tomorrow that individual committee members will attend. The approach is supportive and offering strategies and resources to students and families.
IV. Cultural Engagement Committee Update
A.
CEC May Update
Patrick Freeland shared Committee updates.
- Hispanic Heritage Month events at WWU
- Indigenous Heritage- groups in Bellingham and various colleges. Patrick volunteering with the Community Consortium for Cultural Recognition to help plan the event at Lummi Nation School this fall
- Website:
- Next cultural engagement meeting will be scheduled for next month
- Committee will develop a plan to possibly join the Community Consortium
- Links:
- https://www.wwu.edu/latine-heritage-month
- https://bellinghampubliclibrary.org/news/bellingham-public-library-honors-hispanic-heritage-month
- https://calendar.bellinghamschools.org/index.php?type=view&action=event&id=278020
- https://www.whatcom.edu/college-life/intercultural-center/intercultural-events
- https://www.wwu.edu/community-consortium-cultural-recognitions
- https://www.wwu.edu/indigenous-peoples-day-2024
V. Governance
A.
Commission Updates
Dawn Walker shared updates on the current CAPs and items that are due each month.
WIHS is currently in compliance with the CAP. Halma and Scott from the commission have been very helpful with reaching out when a question arises about data that has been submitted to ensure that all components are accurate and fully received.
Dawn share the upcoming reporting deadlines and areas of need from the Board
B.
CAP, Compliance, and Reporting Updates
C.
Board Development and Empowerment
- Jonathan and Dawn meeting every other week- will adjust the X placeholder in the Board Development documents
- Board will complete Dawn's evaluation in the next month
- Nasreen and Adan will take on board recruitment and outreach to new people who are interested
- Adan will attend the Commission Oversight meeting on 10/1
VI. Anti-Racism and Transformative Justice Work
A.
Announcements: Local anti-racist and transformative justice opportunities
Truth & Reconciliation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rCVMcFbbOniCoJXt1AEL8IyFpkP8u_zd/view?usp=drive_link
Seafest
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y3Oc7HULmXsLDp1-Exp_6QHwXwma8AH8/view?usp=drive_link
Healing pages book club is paused until new director takes over.
VII. Other Business
A.
Announcements
None at this time
VIII. Board Goals
A.
Board Debrief and Evaluation
Board went through goals and agreements, and confirmation of participation in meetings.
Read by Nasreen Mughal-Barrows