Opening Items

 

Finance

There were no FOIA requests to EMSA, as of 6.10.21.

Interim Financial Report as of May 31, 2021.

S Egger will present the FY22 budget for approval as well as a five-year budget for consideration.

Board

First Read--Open for Comments

Required new policies--draft

Breastfeeding area for student mothers
Feminine products
Longitudinal Data

Master Plan Committee

Gym Construction remains on schedule, and under budget.  EMSA has contingency funds available since the construction costs are coming in under budget.  EMSA has used some of the contingency for an inter-building intercom system and art barn sewer installation. 

For the Board's consideration:  setting aside specific funds for facilities repairs/improvements.  (See below).





 

The Master Planning and Finance Committees recommend approval of $39,000 in construction contingency funds to expand, grade, and gravel the north road (along property line with Max McGraw) and parking area and to repair/resurface the residential driveway and walkway on campus. 

The Master Planning Committee also recommends approval of an amount not to exceed $55,000 of construction contingency funds for necessary repairs to the interior of the Neil building.

Microsoft is coming to visit EMSA's Pollinator Garden and campus on Wednesday, June 23, at 11 a.m.!  Join us if you'd like!

Grants completed and fully funded related to the 2d Grade Pollinator Garden and school-wide Heritage Oaks native plantings.  We are grateful to the POLLINATOR PARTNERSHIP organization for funding the Pollinator Garden and the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH of ELGIN for funding the Heritage Oak plantings.  

New swing set should be installed by July.
Next meeting of the Enviro Work Group will consider directional signage and gates; it will be combined with nature/hiking paths work group on Saturday, June 19, 3-5 pm. Join us if you're interested in what's happening on the outdoors portion of our campus.  

Governance

EMSA is honored to have our Board Retreat led by Gail Berger of Northwestern University.  
Here is her impressive bio (from NWU website):
Architectures of Collaboration
Deputy Director - Kellogg Center for Executive Women
Clinical Associate Professor of Executive Education
Gail Berger is a Clinical Associate Professor at Northwestern University in the Kellogg School of Management, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the School of Communication, and the Deputy Director of the Center for Executive Women at Kellogg.  She is also an experienced executive coach and leadership development expert who is passionate about helping leaders and teams achieve their goals and improve their performance and effectiveness.   She brings professional and academic experience in the areas of talent development and assessment, conflict resolution, and team dynamics.  She works with clients across a variety of industries, including, consumer services, education, engineering, financial services, hospitality, and the non-profit sector. Career highlights include the design, development and implementation of team building programs for clients that have harnessed coaching as a cornerstone for program success.  In addition, she has won teaching awards, including Instructor of the Year at Northwestern’ s School of Education and Social Policy, and she has published in leading journals and presented at National conferences.
Gail received her Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She also holds a M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision from Loyola University and a B.A./B.S. in Psychology and Elementary Education from Boston University.  She has blended her background in education, business and psychology to create a powerful approach to team building, leadership development, and executive coaching.   By combining purposeful reflection, candor and support she guides individuals to lasting behavior change so that they can be more effective.  According to her clients her core strengths lie in her ability to ask thought provoking questions that push them to think about issues differently, as well as her keen insights about situations and human interaction. 
Gail is committed to helping individuals, teams and organizations attain their learning goals and growth objectives.  Some of her work includes:

• Assessing key talent, as well as evaluating career transitions and inflection points
• Managing key stakeholder relationships more effectively and building effective collaborations with a foundation of trust and mutual respect
• Developing and changing organizational culture to enhance individual and team performance
• Fostering leadership capacity by accelerating the emergence of core leadership competencies like, conflict management, delegation and emotional intelligence

Gail has identified two key objectives to explore at our retreat to help advance EMSA's growth:

• Discuss how EMSA can use its vision and mission to effectively make strategic decisions
• Explore the hallmarks of an effective  decision-making process and  the traps that we don’t want to snare us when we make decisions.

To consider before our retreat:  a statement that expresses why the school exists and what does success looks like in X years?   
 

EMSA must approve its Board schedule for FY22.  The consensus supports moving the meetings to the fourth week of each month.

Since Wednesday and Thursday do not work at all for 1+ Board/Admin members, that leaves Monday or Tuesday.  Tuesday gives us a little more time to prepare.  1+ board members cannot attend daytime/morning meetings; therefore we will meet in the evening.  6 pm has been our usual time.  Propose:  board meetings on the 4th Tuesday of every month at 6 pm.  Annual retreat?

Take BOT board member survey to I.D. board strengths and areas of growth.
Share ideas on potential board members.

Outreach: Families and Community

Outreach has a calendar of events that EMSA would like to attend.  Let Kimberly know if you would like to pitch-in at one or more of these events this summer.

Summer School
ESY
MLL Screenings

Principal Support and Evaluation