Shining Rock Classical Academy

Minutes

Monthly Board Meeting

Date and Time

Wednesday June 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Location

SRCA

2150 Russ Avenue, Waynesville, NC 28786.

*If school is closed due to weather, the board meeting will be remote at the provided link. 

Directors Present

A. Adeleke (remote), A. Weimar, B. Bowser, B. Buckelew (remote), J. Sims, R. Gevjan, S. Messer

Directors Absent

B. Mullinix

Ex Officio Members Present

H. Wilson

Non Voting Members Present

H. Wilson

Guests Present

A. Aldossary, A. Anderson (remote), C. White, Stephanie Klupinski, T. Gresham, T. Inman

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

A. Weimar called a meeting of the board of directors of Shining Rock Classical Academy to order on Wednesday Jun 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM.

C.

Board minutes May 27

J. Sims made a motion to approve the minutes from Monthly Board Meeting on 05-27-26.
S. Messer seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.
A. Weimar made a motion to approve the minutes from Closed session as part of regular 3/27 meeting on 05-27-26.
J. Sims seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

D.

Mission

A. Weimar read aloud the mission statement

E.

Public Comment

None

II. Director Report

A.

Director

  • J. Martin enters new role as Data Manager
  • Partnering with Sk8way for after-school
    • Can include middle school which was not offered via our in-house program
    • Sk8way completely handles busing
  • Partnering with Media Integrations
    • Experience working with charter schools
    • Online advertising and social media engagement
    • Updating our website
  • Summer camps
    • Basketball
    • Volleyball
    • Cheer
    • Soccer
    • Paid entirely by the respective camp enrollment
  • School enrollment: 371 so far
    • Local preschool partnerships
  • First 30 days priorities
    • Strengthen our internal culture
    • Rebrand the school within the community
    • Increase student enrollment

A. Weimar acknowledged A. Aldossary (recently appointed assistant director), H. Wilson (recently appointed executive director), and S. Jenkins (exiting interim executive director) and the effort put into today's orientation evening

III. Academic Excellence

A.

Updates

Did not meet since last meeting of the Board

IV. Culture

A.

Updates

Did not meet since last meeting of the Board

V. Facility and Transportation

A.

Summer updates

B. Weimar stated that improvements recently made are completely covered by bespoke state funds

  • Repainting
  • Windows
  • Roadwork

VI. Governance

A.

Bylaws

A. Weimar spoke about the updates to the bylaws and conversations with OCS. 

Remove Dellwood address- ensure "CFA" language is removed. 

 

Update  Mission Statement - ARTICLE 2.2 Mission: Shining Rock Classical Academy cultivates critical thinking skills and fosters a lifelong love of learning through rigorous academics, experiential education, service to others, and our core values of Integrity, Respect, Compassion, Responsibility, Wisdom, and Leadership.


 

A. Weimar made a motion to Approve the bylaw updates and edit the Mission Statement in the SRCA Board Bylaws.
B. Bowser seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

VII. Policy

A.

Policy updates

A. Weimar introduced A. Adeleke as chair of the policy committee and invited her to speak about the following policies

  • 3100 Fundraising and Crowdfunding (1st read)
    • Culture committee to review this
  • 4605 Academic Grading (vote to approve)
    • Academic committee has reviewed this
  • 2301 Nepotism (1st read)
  • 2201 Conflict of Interest (1st read)
  • 3025 Lines of Financial Management (1st read)
    •  Finance committee has reviewed this
R. Gevjan made a motion to approve the update to 4605 Academic Grading upon a correction of the formatting in the document.
B. Bowser seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

VIII. Finance

A.

Budget approval FY 27

R. Gevjan spoke

  • Federal government revenue is based on last year's enrollment
  • Local government revenue is based on this year's enrollment

T. Gresham pointed out that the increase in marketing spend goes toward proving to the bondholders that the school is working on improving marketing and enrollment and that goes toward restructuring the bond for more equitable payments

 

A. Weimar seconded that point 

 

H. Wilson spoke a bit about the possible Staples partnership for school supplies fundraising

R. Gevjan made a motion to approve the budget for the upcoming school year.
J. Sims seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

IX. Other Business

A.

School Lunch Program

B. Weimar

  • School lunch program has been submitted
  • New hire taking over the lunch program

B.

Board positions

A. Weimar said

  • Need to recruit 2-3 more board members
  • Advertising at back to school nights with a table of board members there
  • Need a vice chair by the end of July, to be compliant with the bylaws and to be practically ready for succession of the chair

C.

Blue Ridge Health

H. Wilson spoke

  • Meeting early next week to hammer out details for services
  • BRH will be here at the Meet the Teacher night

A. Weimar stated that she would like to advertise the partnership locally

X. Closed Session

A.

Closed Session Pursuant to NCGS 143-318.11

Closed Session Pursuant to NCGS 143-318.11 (6): To consider the qualifications, competence, performance, character, fitness, conditions of appointment, or conditions of initial employment of an individual public officer or employee or prospective public officer or employee; or to hear or investigate a complaint, charge, or grievance by or against an individual public officer or employee.

 

Closed Session Pursuant to NCGS 143-318.11 (5): To establish, or to instruct the public body's staff or negotiating agents concerning the position to be taken by or on behalf of the public body in negotiating (i) the price and other material terms of a contract or proposed contract for the acquisition of real property by purchase, option, exchange, or lease; or (ii) the amount of compensation and other material terms of an employment contract or proposed employment contract.

J. Sims made a motion to enter closed session with an invitation extended to H. Wilson and S. Klupinksi initially and to B. Weimar when appropriate.
A. Weimar seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.
A. Weimar made a motion to exit closed session.
J. Sims seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

B.

Closed session voting items

J. Sims made a motion to approve the personnel report.
R. Gevjan seconded the motion.
The board VOTED to approve the motion.

XI. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 8:12 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
A. Weimar
Documents used during the meeting
  • Bylaws_SRCA.pdf
  • 2026 Bylaws and Mission Statement.pdf
  • Fundraising and Crowdfunding 3100.docx.pdf
  • 4605 Academic Grading _2026u.pdf
  • 2301 Nepostism.docx.pdf
  • 2201 Conflict of Interest .docx.pdf
  • Lines of Financial Management _SRCA format.docx.pdf
  • FOR BOARD. REVIEW - SRCA FY27 Annual Budget Proposal - Budget.pdf