This is a meeting of the Board. The Board is composed of 9 voting members and 1 non-voting member, the Executive Director. We are using the following protocols to guide our meeting:

• This meeting is being recorded
• If someone wishes to speak during the appropriate time, they will use the ‘raise hand’ icon or will raise their hand on video.
• Please mute yourself when you enter the meeting and while someone else is talking. 
• Make sure your name is spelled correctly. 
• Use reactions to give a "thumbs-up" or "clap."

Mission: The Academy of Alameda equitably develops students into critical thinkers
and life-long learners who navigate the world with integrity, and who apply their learning
to empower themselves and their communities.

Envisioned Future: 
We envision a future where all of our students are successful,
and their destinies are not determined by their demographics.
 

Board Meeting Minutes From:

• May 26 
• June 7

• Approve the combined credit card statement and Bank of Marin check register from May.

There was a mistake on the Board Calendar that was passed at the May 26 Board meeting. The first Board meeting in August has been changed to Thursday, August 25 (not Wednesday, August 24). The attached Board Calendar has that date corrected.

The Board is being asked to re-approve AoA's 2022/23 school calendar, as we added the federal holiday, Juneteenth, held on June 19 of each year. 

Reports from the following committees:

• Finance Committee
• Marketing Committee
• Development Committee
• Student Success Committee
• Governance Committee
• Facilities

An update regarding AoA's merger of its elementary and middle school programs that begins July 1, 2022

A 2022/23 enrollment update for grades Kindergarten though 8th grade that includes recent enrollment strategies that AoA is taking.

The Academy of Alameda's Board of Directors recently approved a number of new salary schedules this year that will take effect beginning the 2022/23 school year. The motion below applies to all other positions within the organization.

Motion: To increase the following hourly pay/salary schedules by 2% for the 2022/23 School Year (Beginning with their first pay check as designated in the 2022/23 Employee Work Schedule):

• Teachers/Educational Specialists
• Front Office Staff
• Instructional Support Staff
• After-School Staff
• Certificated Support Staff
• Instructional/Student Support Staff
• School Nurse
• Administrative Assistant to the Executive Director

The following board members were nominated to receive new 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2022

• Amy Price
• David Forbes

AoA Board vote for the following position for a one-year term: 

• President 

AoA Board vote for the following position for a one-year term: 

• Vice President 

AoA Board vote for the following position for a one-year term: 

• Secretary 

AoA Board vote for the following position for a one-year term:

• Treasurer 

Background: 
The passage of AB 361 allows public bodies to dispense with certain normally applicable Brown Act teleconferencing requirements wherever a public body holds a meeting during a proclaimed state of emergency and one of three conditions are met:

1. State or local officials have imposed or recommended measures to promote social distancing; or
2. The meeting is for the purpose of determining, by a majority vote, whether as a result of the state of emergency, meeting in person would present imminent risks to the health or safety of attendees; or
3. The body has determined, by a majority vote, that, as a result of the state of emergency, meeting in person would present imminent risks to the health or safety of attendees.

AB 361 provides that if a state of emergency remains in place, a local agency must make the following findings by majority vote every 30 days, in order to continue using the bill’s exemption to the Brown Act teleconferencing rules:
(A) The legislative body has reconsidered the circumstances of the emergency; and
(B) Either of the following circumstances exists:
(1) the state of emergency continues to directly impact the ability of board members to meet safely in person, or
(2) State or local officials continue to impose or recommend social distancing measures.

Draft Motion: The Academy of Alameda Board of Directors approves continuing to hold Board meetings and Board committee meetings virtually through July 30, 2022 due to the state of emergency related to COVID-19 that continues to directly impact the ability of board members and attendees to meet safely in person pursuant to AB 361.

August 7 Board Meetings

Key Topics Include: 

• EPA - Planned Expenses Report (Consent)
• SARC
• June 23 Minutes
• Schoolwide Organizational Focus Areas for 2022/23
• Strategic Planning Process - 2022/23
• Williams Act Walkthrough
• Board Committee Work/Development

August 25 Board Meetings

Key Topics Include: 

• August 7 Board Retreat Minutes
• Student Success Data Presentation
• Board Local Authorization for Credentials
• Enrollment Report
• Opening of the School Year Report (1st days of Schools)
• Budget Update