Dr. Smith — We are working on a new logo for TSAS and will be pushing out a few prototypes for our school community to vote on.  TPS has sent a letter of interest to us in regard to purchasing the building, should it be made available for sale.  After affirmatively emailing them our interest, we were sent a questionnaire regarding our interest.  We have had a few kitchen repairs and have had plumbing issues that we have needed to address. We have had to repair our ice maker, steamer, two ovens, caulking and wall repairs, all of which have either been finished or are underway. We have also had to adjust our dumpster schedule and bought two small air conditioning units for our café. The health department has made us aware of the need for kitchen compliance repair and all costs are responsible to TSAS. They are requiring us to either replace or cover the ceiling tiles in the kitchen and serving line. We are also required to repair one of the walls along with some base cove work. We have had two companies come out to give bids. The repairs are pretty significant and will shut our kitchen down for about two weeks.  We are going to try scheduling those repairs for parent-teacher conference days and PD day, so hopefully we will only have to close the kitchen for about 5–7 days. One group says they can work on the weekends, but the other cannot work the weekends, so that will determine the price and timeline.  Oppa! will work at another location to prepare brown bag meals that we will transport in our vans.  We have also had some enrollment challenges. Right now, we are under enrolled about 8 students, and we would like to be at full enrollment by October 1st.  Adriana Lopez is continuing to call families, and we have done internal messaging to raise awareness about those offerings. Our lowest enrollment is at the high school level. It does mean that some of the grades have more than 75 students, making some middle school classes closer to 80 and our senior class currently sits at 62. Daniel Sharples is planning on meeting with 8th grade programs in the fall to recruit students for next year to hopefully start at TSAS at the 9th grade level in addition to 6th grade. 

Dr. Hahn — We are ramping up our first round of parent-teacher conferences and professional development days for the school year.  They will take place on September 25 and 26.  We scaled up some formative assessments into high school and I have been working with the teachers on how to use the data. The first round of assessment data will be the main subject for our PD day. The other teachers that aren’t teaching reading and math will also have access to the data as well. Observations are taking place.  I have done 18 so far and my hope is to observe all 38 teachers 5 times by February.

Sharples — The Friends of TSAS is moving forward with Trivia Night on November 13th. The location is still TBA.  Megan Radford is an alum and is heading that night with a strong group of parents.  I’ve worked with the Friends of TSAS on grant funding, and we are trying to form a team of former teachers that want to be a part of that as we work to create a grant calendar.  Dr. Smith and I are working to narrow the objectives for the Friends of TSAS to 4 main parts.  Trivia, an annual appeal mailer, board governance and ensuring best practices, and lastly, having a functioning grant team. We plan to ask for donations in the mailer that we create in the spring.  At Back to School Night, we invited parents to participate in an informational meeting giving them three simple objectives.  One is to have a volunteer group, the second is a school appreciation group, and the third is a networking event to allow parents an opportunity to get to know each other. There are a few events coming up. Next Tuesday, September 16th, we will have a fund-raising event at Jason’s Deli on Cherry St.  There will be a service day for all of our teachers and high school students on October 3rd.  October 4th is TSAS night at FC Tulsa and on October 16th we will have a speaker series titled The State of Journalism, and we have made arrangements for some journalists as guest speakers and lastly, our annual Fall Festival is October 24th. 

Dr. Smith reports anticipating a carryover around $250,000 and a budget of 4.7 million. Last year, we made the decision to use the building fund to cover the lease, and we can still use those funds, but it is not currently needed.  There is almost $700,000 currently in the Redbud account, and we anticipate receiving another $200,000.