Liberation Academy
Minutes
Board Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday March 12, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Directors Present
C. Clark (remote), K. Scott (remote), M. Mehta (remote), R. Nobles (remote), R. Oglesby, W. Hunter (remote)
Directors Absent
None
Guests Present
B. King (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C. Clark called a meeting of the board of directors of Liberation Academy to order on Tuesday Mar 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes
C. Clark made a motion to approve the minutes from Board Meeting on 02-13-24.
M. Mehta seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Governance
A.
Announcement of New Board Chair
III. Executive Director Report
A.
Enrollment Update
- Enrollment at 75
- More tabling events to be scheduled in the near future
- Radio ads forthcoming
- 90 Applications- largest distribution at 7th
- Marketing contractor: Creative Juice lowered monthly retainer and is working on website revamp
- ROI with TailorWiz has had great return on leads; working to ensure notifications are not being marked as spam. Lowered monthly retainer
- Website revamp coming soon.
B.
School Culture
- Top infractions: 5 for horseplay
- Students will be going on a field-lesson to the Georgia Aquarium (Date?)
Focus for March: Project-Based Learning, Vocabulary, and Data Tracking
- All scholars will receive vocabulary (biweekly)
- Modified scheduled to review exit ticket/formative assessment
- Incentives and celebrations for staff and scholars (culture)
- Coaching on unit plans for PBL
- Obtained i-ready
- Purchased for next six months
- Intervention for weekly data
- Power-hour as an opportunity to conference with students
IV. Development
A.
Title-I
- Received an increase in Title I funding
B.
Grants and other fundraising
- Applying for 2 GADOE Grants
- Safe Schools
- Innovation Fund
- Private donations short $6,000.00
V. Facility
A.
Facility Update
Facility Resource Center is assisting in the acquisition of a new site for SY25-26
- In talks with two different facilities.
- Both in Fulton County/College Park
- Fiscally both sites keep under the 12% percent threshold
- Will take up 9% of Projected income for 25 and 26 income
- Decision deadline:
- Will require 9 to 12 months of build out
- Board to make a decision on property by end of March
VI. Finance Committee
A.
Budget Review-January
FY25:
- Potential Start date of August 5th
- Working on current draft budget to possibly present at next Board meeting
- Budget will include facility modeling
- Teacher pay-scale steps + Governors Bonus possibility
January financial report is attached.
VII. Other Business
A.
Public Comment
None
VIII. 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 6:42 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
R. Nobles
Documents used during the meeting
None
Dr. Ryan Nobles was announced as the new board chair.
The board voted unanimously to approve Dr. Nobles for the leadership position after previous chair Nicole Long resigned from the board, effective this month.