"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all."

K. Millard opened the floor for public input. No public input was given.

Dr. Millard introduced Dr. Gonulalan, as a prospective new board member.  He shared his background and experience.  He then left the room so that the board could discuss and vote on his appointment to the board.

K. Millard shared that we need to add one more person to our Board.  We currently have 8 members and should have 9.  One member just resigned. We are looking for possibly an account or a lawyer. We interviewed about 25 people from Volunteers.com but were not able to secure anyone K. Millard asked that each member recommend someone at the next meeting.  K. Millard, will reach out to David Shaeed to check and see if he would consider being a board member for IMSA's.

 

Mr. Akkaya shared that he is applying for a School Improvement Grant for IMSA South.  If the grant is approved it will provide $400,000 per year to the school for five years.  He will submit the grant the week of August 29, 2016.
 

Dr. Millard gave a brief overview of the Academic Excellence Committee meeting. The scores for ISTEP are not in yet, J. Gantzer form OEI is hopeful that we will have them by December.  The scores are not where they need to be and we know that.  The question is what do we do about it.  Mr. Secen shared what they are going to do at IMSA North.  Schools will be using Measuring Up to access students and track their improvement.  

Mr. Arslan, will send a monthly report on the progress for all three schools to the board for monitoring. 

D. Coats shared that IMSA South has a serious deficit.  This is mostly due to the decline in enrollment. There are three charter schools in the area along with an IPS Blue Ribbon School with only approximately 5,000 school age children in the area. D. Coats suggested that the demographics be collected for the area. M. Arslan suggested   possibly forming a committee  to evaluate the future of the school.  It was asked if we could move the school to a different location however, that would probably require closing the current location and reapplying for a new charter.  Mr. Halil will be meeting with IMSA South on Monday, August 29, 2016, to go over the budget. D. Coats will also meet with them on the budget for South at a different time.

There should be a plan in place by the October meeting.

O. Secen shared information regarding the 7 year IMSA North charter renewal application.  The application packet was submitted on Friday, August 26,2016.  The packet contains some goals for the board, such as purposing new member and possibly a parent member each year.

The board members are to read the packet and as many as possible attend the hearing on October 3rd at 6:00 pm at the Mayor's office.  They will ask questions and then take a vote on  whether or not they will renew the IMSA North charter. Attendance of the Board members is very important at this review hearing. The charter actually belongs to the Board and not the school. J. Gantzer said we should receive a preliminary report in approximately two weeks. 

M. Arslan, shared a power point of things happening at all three schools.  Principals are going to go to each room in the mornings and talk to the teachers and the students and see if there is anything that they need.  A general presence in the rooms.  There will be a Google document with the key data sent to all the Board members.