We have various documents to look at tonight including protocols which will become part of a handbook. The school is open and thank you to the staff. 

Procedures for Executive Director support and evaluation process was formalized and communicated to the ED. This includes checkins and all board members are invited to be part of the subcommittee to support and evaluate the ED.  The entire Board will be part of the final evaluation which will be done through BoardOnTrack.
The Executive Committee meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month @ 8am. 

Thank you to the Bridge Prep staff for all the hard work. ED spent the first month focusing on classroom instruction and interacting with teachers while Fahron Ebanks focused on operations. 
Little Bird was acquired by TriNet and asked us to sign an updated service agreement with the same terms and fees. No vote necessary. 

Busing - Bus routes for new students are still not in place. A majority of students were able to get on existing routes but there are still 10 students with no bus route.  We await a response from head of OPT.  The Family Association and Family Coordinator are working on this too.
Extra Curricular activities - Bridge Prep secured participation in all CYO Leagues through the spring including track, basketball, cheerleading as well as Girl Scouts. 
Sundog Arts - a family painting evening will take place in December after parent interest surveys. 
Enrollment is solid. We received inquiries from out of state and out of country (Egypt) to see if they can participate in remote instruction. This speaks to the reach and the need for this type of school. Media, branding and word of mouth attribute to this reach. 

This report is before the October billing. Revenue is over projection and will increase further with four additional students.  Reconciliation was approved by the DOE. 

The committee focused on teaching and learning in a remote environment. All tech, ops, and teaching training is continually being worked on. There is a working structure and plan for the responsibilities of the DTL. Future plans and NYSED response regarding the role are forthcoming.
The Dashboard will be presented in the November meeting. Three summative assessments (MAP, F&P and OG) and a schedule of all assessment dates will be provided to the board. F. DiCanio is the Assessment and Data Coordinator and will help aggregate and assess the data.  MAP and OG will be reported on three times per year and F&P twice per year. Monthly reporting will include student enrollment, subgroup analysis, staff and student attendance, and Covid-19 health actions. 
The Academic Committee meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month @ 6pm. 

The primary business of the committee was the audit.  It was a clean report, we will vote on it tonight and submit it to the State. We are focused on getting an updated budget come November which will kick off the budget process. This work will be driven by committees taking a closer look with the management team advising. The Finance committee will be linked to facilities in that we need to strategically consider the impacted commercial real estate market and capital issues. Finance also needs to looking at structure and benefits.

We continue to work on a Board handbook and will be posting documents in BOT. 
Recruitment - we have a short term goal of getting a few committee members knowledgeable about operations or facilities management. We have two candidates now who have expressed interest in the board. 
Governance meets the first Wednesday of the month @ 8am.

Board email protocols were established along with a disclaimer. We continue to work on the procedural aspects of the Board email. This is a more formalized structure for board and ED communications.

The facilities task force will be established with the school and board working together. Members interested include Azalia Volpe, Rose Kerr, Frank Santarpia, Laurel Gyimesi and Tim Castanza. Anyone else interested can email board@bridgeprepcharter.org

Material changes to the Charter need to be to NYS by December 15th.  NYSED sent inquiry regarding vacancy of DTL. ED will reach out to each committee regarding any potential material changes impacting them. 

Congratulations to Tim Castanza and Ms. Q on their recent weddings. Best wishes to Ms. DiCanio on her upcoming wedding.  getting married shortly.

Ms. Q - thank you for the well wishes.