NOTE: Kathleen Foley is listed in the minutes as a "Trustee" due to a software issue with Board on Track. She participated in a vote of a task force minutes during this meeting. To give her voting privilege's the Board on Track Software listed her as a "trustee" in the meeting minutes of this meeting.  A recommendation for change has been submitted to the software company for a change in software.

There is no additional information to be provided at this time.

Statement of work for the Advisor to the Co-Executive Directors

• Change: attendance at Board meetings is required
• Discussed whether the Board Education section should be updated or removed.  Ultimately was decided to leave it in.

The Committee met three times and was able to accomplish the tasks assigned to it.  It has been disbanded assuming the Board accepts the deliverables.  The two new policies are up for a first reading at this meeting.

Mike Cournoyer introduced Nancy LeBlanc and Leeanna Brown to present the High School's College Preparatory Program. See attached presentation.  It was a thorough presentation which lead to few questions but compliments for the presentation.

• The new Director of Operations will start in a few weeks.  
• Offer letters for next year will be distributed tomorrow.

H Hardie (Teacher (Department Head), Matt Duska (HS Art Teacher)and Lauren Ells (HS teacher) spoke of their desire to form a union at FRCS.

• Looking for a new President
• Done meeting for this school year

No updates

No updates

• Has a new President and they will start running the meetings in the fall
• Done meeting for this school year

• Heard one appeal in June so far and was not able to grant the appeal.
• Two more appeals are scheduled to be heard at the end of the month
• We have been discussing the scope of the committee and have made progress on finalizing it.
• The committee intends to meet at least three times during the school year on the 3rd Thursday of the month (October, January and March) at 8:00am and call additional meetings as needed. 

No update at this time

• Open projects are all making progress: ES flooring, ES Gym Roof will take a week to fix, ES Lobby repairs
• MS Roof solar panels are being assessed
• The group is working on the scope of the committee and official meeting times.
• The committee is working on a project plan to demolish the house at 137 Central street that is owned by the school.

NOTE: Badawi temporarily lost connection during this part of the meeting

The board took a 5 minute recess for a bio break.

• The RFP for an executive leader search firm has not received any proposals.
• The current budget is trending as expected.
• FY23 Budget
  • Recommend adding $25,000 for the demolition of the house at 137 Central Street which is owned by the School. Which should come out of the Operations Services line of the budget.
  • Salaries increased from FY22 to FY23 is on average 4.5%
  • Employee Health Benefits: 
    • The Board of Trustees previously approved an increase in school share of Employee's health benefits from 65% in FY22 to 70% in FY23.
  • The contract for Transportation for Student Services increased due to a state mandate and the budget is being increased to cover the expense as required. The increase is $230/day/van to $350/day/van.

• The board thanked Nancy Sepe for her years of dedication to the school district and foundation. 
• The Golf Tournament is planned for July and the Foundation is working on plans to celebrate the 25th of the anniversary.
• The Foundation is a separate entity with a set of Bylaws and Articles of Organization.  Susanna Girard suggests the Board does not need to have oversite of this organization. It is recommended that the Board vote to no longer consider the FRCS Foundation Inc a board committee as they are self-organized.

• Governance Committee had their first meeting this week
• The review of the scope 1st reading occured.
• It is suggested we may want Kathleen Foley to join this committee. She will be invited to the next meeting to review the scope and we will present her for nomination at an upcoming meeting if needed.

No updates at this time

The committee is working on the scope of the committee

Board Committee Eligibility & Participation 

• remove the FRCS Foundation Inc from the document
• Change the scope into a table to add clarity
• With the way students obtain working papers in mind it is suggested 
  • that the students participation is limited to regular meeting times and not require them to attend special additional meetings.
  • Students do not meet after 8pm, If meetings run longer they are excused.
• Call the student to work with the Board of Trustees a "Liaison"  
• Add clarity on students not being able to attend Executive sessions

Board Committee Selection Process

• remove the FRCS Foundation Inc from the document
• Change the scope into a table to add clarity
• It was noted that the task force discussed and decided unanimously the following
  • Students liaison to the Board of Trustees would be selected by the board and not elected by their peers
  • Adults selected to be added to committee would be selected and not randomly chosen.  Meaning the trustees & SLT on the committees would be the ones doing the selection.
  • Staff, Parents/guardians & Student representation would last from Sept to June.  The Sept BOT meeting should be moved to 20SEP to accommodate submissions of applications.

• Code of conduct and Student handbook are expected at the July meeting

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