Jerry W. Simmons, Attorney and Partner with law firm Young, Minney, & Corr. YMC is a charter school law firm who largely does Brown Act and conflict of interest training as well as crisis management.

Jerry led the AoA board through Brown Act and conflict of interest training.

Brown Act Training highlights:

• It is recommended that we discuss at a future meeting how we wish to deal with teleconferencing.
• An emergency meeting is covers something such as a work strike or crippling natural disaster.
• We should set a public comment time limit and that language should appear on every agenda.

Conflict of Interest Training highlights:

• Purposeful and accidental conflicts of interest on boards tend to get people in trouble the most often. When in doubt, check for conflicts.

Christine shared that the local indicators, which was voted on with the LCAP (Local Control Accountability Plan) at the June 15, 2023 board meeting, was uploaded to the state on September 19. It is an annual requirement, due to the state by September 30.

Carole reviewed with the board, the Board on Track and assessment taken by board and ED in August 2023. She reviewed how to get into the Board on Track assessment tool and to get to your individual answers and compare them to the group's answers, so each person could see how close or far apart their answers were to the group's.

• Finance Committee did not meet this month.

• Student Success Committee met September 28, 2023 and discussed goals for the year. They are to create a school success profile and determine a way to know that our students are succeeding.

• Board Governance Committee met on September 18, 2023. The committee's goals this year are to recruit board members that reflect school community and work on training materials. The committee will ask all board members to nominate 1-2 perspective board members by Oct. 27. Considering student board members. The committee is also processing materials for onboarding new board members and creating timeline for policy reviews. Staff is currently revising policies that board voted on in August 2023 which will go back to committee for review again. The bylaws at lawyers then to committee for review. 

• No comments: Carole, Teresa, Keith
• Randy and Amy will be out of town for October board meeting
• Kristin attended Back to School Night. It was very busy with her three children's middle school schedules, and it was very informative. She wishes she could have had those teachers. Ann Gilcrease (new principal) was great. Web leaders served dinner which was nice. 
   

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October 25: 

• Unaudited Actuals 
• Review Executive Director 23-24 Goals and Evaluation Process 
• Overview of Current 23-24 Enrollment and Enrollment and Marketing Plans for 24-25 including TK