Roll call - take attendance of Board Directors.

Board members will review and approve the minutes from the February 23, 2021 Board meeting.

There is no Guest Presenter for this meeting.

One City Schools has a strong foundation of active and engaged parents. Parent representatives who serve on One City's Board of Directors will have the opportunity to share an update with the Board on behalf of the One City parent-led Parent Council.

Parent Board Members Ms. Toya Pedracine-Stewart, Dr. Wajiha Akhtar-Khaleel and Ms. Jodie Pope will present/lead the discussion. 

 

One City Schools recruited two dozen leaders and organizations in early childhood education to apply for a $20 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation through its $90 million Racial Equity 2030 Initiative. One City's collaborative project is titled, "EarlyCare and Education for All: A System for National Expansion". Through this project, the ECE4ALL Coalition that One City has convened will establish a replicable system for offering high quality, affordable early care and education to under-resourced children that can be scaled nationally. You can learn more about the Initiative. and our partners and collaborators, at the project's website: https://www.ECE4ALL.org. We have also launched social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to promote the effort. 

We will learn if we are a finalist by summer 2021.

Individuals and the organizations they represent that are members of the ECE4ALL Coalition are: 

1. Kaleem Caire, Founder and CEO, One City Schools
2. Beth Graue, Sorrenson Professor of Education and Director, Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE), UW-Madison 
3. Jackie Anderson, Wisconsin Infant-Toddler Policy Project Manager, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA)
4. Jody Bartnick, Executive Director, Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C)
5. Courtney Bell, Professor, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, UW-Madison 
6. Hayley Chesnik, Senior Director of Strategic Collaborations, United Way of Dane County 
7. Amy Claessens, Associate Professor, Education Policy Studies and CRECE, UW-Madison 
8. Nar Doumbya, Co-Director of TEACH Early Childhood Wisconsin, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association 
9. Paula Drew, Early Care and Education Research and Policy Analyst, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association 
10. Dorothy Edwards, Professor, School of Education, UW-Madison
11. Sarah Esmond, Outreach Program Manager, School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Madison
12. Simone Lawrence, Administrative Manager-External Relations, One City Schools 
13. Kimber Liedl, Business Engagement Director, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association 
14. Coral Manning, Early Childcare and Education Manager, City of Madison Child Care Division 
15. Lana Shkylar Nenide, Executive Director, Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health
16. Bryce Pickett, Director, One City Preschool 
17. Toni Rivera-Joachin, CEO, Families and Schools Together (FAST)
18. Shedon Ryan Hitchens, United Way of Dane County 
19. Ruth Schmidt, Executive Director, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA)
20. Joe Sensenbrenner, Founder, Resilient Cities Center 
21. Terri Strong, Early Childcare and Education Consultant, City of Madison Child Care Division 
22. Jessica Tormey, Representative for Families and Schools Together (FAST)
23. Gail Wiseman, VP of External Relations, One City Schools
24. Kennan Wood, President, Wood Communications
25. Xena Zupan, Executive Assistant to the CEO and Project Coordinator for ECE4ALL, One City Schools

For your information and review, attached to this agenda are the monthly departmental updates for February 2021 from One City's Executive Team:

1. Family and Community Initiatives - Ms. Marilyn Ruffin 
2. One City Expeditionary Elementary School - Mr. Faren D'Abell
3. One City Preschool - Mr. Bryce Pickett
4. New School Development and Memo on potential uses of WPS Facility - Ms. Devon Davis
5. School Health, Facilities and Operations - Mr. David Stephan
6. Fundraising and External Relations - Ms. Gail Wiseman

One City began promoting opportunities for families to enroll their children in One City's preschool and elementary school for the 2021-22 school year on February 1, 2021. We hosted four Open Houses in February: two for the preschool and two for the elementary school. We continue to host Virtual School Tours for interested families.

Marilyn Ruffin, One City's VP of Family and Community Initiatives, and our Registrar, will provide an update to the Board on our enrollment numbers for the 2021-22 school year, and will share what our activities will be to fill all remaining seats at One City's Elementary School. Note: We will enroll 2 and 3-year-olds in our preschool and 4K through 4th graders in our elementary school during the next school year.

Please Note:

• Parents were able to enroll their children in One City online this year, and will be able to complete registration online as well.
• Our "Open" Enrollment Period began on Monday, March 1, 2021 and ended on Friday, March 19, 2021.
• Three grade levels (4K, 5K and 1st grade) will require a lottery for us to complete enrollment. 
• The Lottery will take place virtually on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Parents will be invited to join the lottery live online via Zoom at 12pm central time. All children selected for enrollment will receive their official written notification via email on Thursday, March 25, 2021. A paper letter will also be sent to their homes. All children not selected will be placed on our wait list in the order that their name was drawn in the lottery. Parents will have the option of whether or not to place their children on the waitlist.
• Note: Our 4K classrooms will remain at One City Preschool because of the young age level of the children and because the educational program (Anji Play) is the same for ages 2 through 4 (4-year-old kindergarten). 

Suggest topics for future meetings. 

Discuss/consider approval of a move to closed session pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 19.85(1)(e), for the purpose of deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, investing of public funds and conducting other specified public business, whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session, specifically for deliberation and negotiation of an agreement for the purchase of a commercial office building for use as a new K-12 public charter school; and for the purpose of approving a resolution delegating authority to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer to negotiate, and the Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer to execute, a purchase agreement consistent with the closed session deliberation.