Shining Rock Classical Academy
Minutes
SRCA Regular Board Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday January 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Location
2150 Russ Ave, Waynesville NC 28786
Directors Present
A. Weimar, A. Wilkins, J. Schleifer (remote), L. Davis (remote), R. Gevjan, S. Messer
Directors Absent
A. Adeleke, B. Mullinix
Ex Officio Members Present
J. Morgan
Non Voting Members Present
J. Morgan
Guests Present
Ben Weimar, C. White, S. Jenkins, T. Inman
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
SRCA Mission Statement
D.
Approve Minutes 12/4/24
II. Special Recognitions
A.
ARC Grant Awards
B.
Local and District VFW Patriot Pen Winners
Students recognized from VFW for Patriot Pen -
3 student winners from SRCA
2 middle schoolers and 1 high schooler
III. Head of School Report
A.
Report
School Report January 2024.pdf
Policy and graduation conversations to follow.
Calendar - need to be in session 1025 hours. Helene does not count against hours. We will need to consider makeup time.
First Science Fair 4th-12th grade was held today.
IV. 2025 Graduation Date
A.
Approval of 2025 Graduation Date
Approve Saturday, May 17, 2025 as the Graduation Date. Graduation is scheduled to take place at Shakeford Hall. 10:00 am
21 graduating
V. Finance
A.
NEST update
Next meeting January 23, 2025
B.
Review November and December 2024 Finance Report
R Gevjan; J Morgan
multiple line items from CSP have overprojected the EOY and deficit.
Morgan and Gresham are meeting with CSP to re-evaluate contract and services.
Revenue is a more accurate projection.
The estimated deficit is closer to 80,000-100,000 (brought 166k from last year)
Overall, we have made up funds this year
Meetings next week with other vendors - Gresham
If change - July 1st
C.
Transportation Update
See document.
2 of four buses are no longer functioning. 1 yellow bus in repairs. 1 white (activity bus) let.
How do other Charter schools function with bus routes?
-IC Imagine - rubric of need
HCC routes require yellow bus - we are only school in Haywood co. with route to HCC
Should we charge for routes to HCC
Sports impacted greatly - both away and "home" fields.
Electric buses - after grants and rebates, estimate 100-200K for 2 Electric buses
Have we looked at charger reciprocity?
Will this be FY 24 or 25?
Sessoms - shared information on electric busses
Next steps board -
next fiscal year purchase
this year's purchase - consider financing
The board supports permission for Transportation and Administration to begin shopping for buses.
VI. Policy
A.
Policy Updates
move to February
VII. School Calendar Information
A.
Amendments to 2024-25 Calendar
Current hours budget 1060 - contained a surplus of 35 hours
Helene is waived.
With snow and delays, we have exceeded our budgeted hours.
Good faith effort to make up time.
Ideas to re-capture hours - see attached doc
Remote learning on future snow days
Add time to days
Move student conf days to on-campus days
Recommendations
Convert March 28 to Regular School Day from Teacher Work Day
Convert February 17 to Regular School Day from SLC/Remote Learning (1 day)
Add 10 minutes to each school day starting February 1 (2 days)
J.S. - motion to Convert February 17 to a Regular School Day from SLC/Remote Learning and
Add 10 minutes to each school day starting February 1
addendum - Convert March 28 to Regular School Day from Teacher Work Day if we have two snow days between now and March 28.
multiple award grants exceeding $1000 from ARC to help support programs at SRCA. Examples of grant monies:
Speech therapy - mini-grant to support pragmatic language (K. Summers)
EC curriculum to support students on the spectrum and support their classroom needs (A. Anderson)