All members and guests present introduced themselves.

This meeting was rescheduled from December 17, 2016 because of cancellation due to weather.

"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."

It was agreed that at this meeting we would not have the schools give a presentation of their Student Achievement numbers. These 3 items would be deleted from the agenda.

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

Dave Britton from Board on Track gave a presentation on how Board On Track will help us develop a plan for the board to improve it's leadership.  This is an action item on the Mayor's office deficiency report.  Board on Tack is an OEI approved consultant company.

 

K. Millard reviewed the deficiency letter from the Mayor's office and the items that need to take priority.   They are Core Question
1.1  Meet state expectations as measured by the state's accountability system (School Grade). 
1.2  Are students making sufficient and adequate gains, as measured by the Indiana Growth Model?

Kent, also went over Board Governance Core Question 3.  He is going to set up some assessments that the members will take to help us move fore in the process.
 

The Finance Committee and the Academic Excellence Committee had breakout sessions and then came back to the meeting to make their committee reports.

R. Ernst asked for information on where we are in the process of increasing our test scores.  M. Dunn shared a dashboard of the information and a scorecard of where we are and where we need to be going forward.  R. Ernst stated that M. Dunn took the questions the committee had and will address them at the next meeting.  It seems that we have a good start at looking at where we are and where we need to be.   M. Dunn went over the progress of the goals for Core Question 1.7 and the efforts being made to meet the goal by spring. M. Dunn will be presenting information at the next meeting that will bring the group up to date.

 

D. Coats shared the October and November financials and the vouchers with the board. Addressed what IMSA North is doing to recruit more students.  A strategic plan will be presented at the next board meeting.

D. Coats shared the October and November financials and the vouchers with the board. Addressed what IMSA South is doing to recruit more students.  A strategic plan will be presented at the next board meeting

D. Coats shared the October and November financials and the vouchers for IMSA West with the board.  

D. Coats shared the contingency budget for IMSA North with the board.  The final will be based on the enrollment at the next ADM count on February 1st.  The Strategic Enrollment plan will be presented at the next meeting to show the action plan for recruiting more students.