New Hope Charter School
Minutes
New Hope Charter School Board
Date and Time
Monday December 9, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Location
201 Jessie Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95838
Instructions for Presentations to the Board by Parents and Citizens
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Any public records relating to an agenda item for an open session of the Board which are distributed to
all, or majority of all, of the Board members shall be available for public inspection at 201Jessie
Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95838.
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Directors Present
Kim Howard, Lisa Fong
Directors Absent
None
Guests Present
Casey Jower (remote), Herinder Pegany, Jeff Kreiser
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Approve Agenda
II. Consent Agenda
A.
Approve Minutes from July 22, 2024 and September 23, 2024 NHCS Board Meetings
4:39 pm
4:39 pm
III. Reports
A.
Fiscal Team Leader's Update: First Interim Financial Report for 2024-25 Fiscal Year
Casey Jower - First Interim Report
- Certification - due 12/16, wet signatures Herinder Pagany and Gerardo Castillo, CPA
- 24-25 First Interim Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balance
- 93K from Robla School District for SpEd 21-22
- Alignment with Charter School First Interim Form
- Unrestricted vs Restricted Budget and Actuals
- Quality programming, improvements in balancing deficits
B.
Executive Director's Report
Herinder Pagany - Beginning of year updates
- Fiscal audit - clean, detailed, and easy to read
- NHCS - Independent reporting in Student Data and CALPADS; Fall 1 Report, no errors
- CA Dashboard - Currently only one red category (ELA), others are orange and yellow.
- 23-24 compared to 22-23 Chronic absenteeism and Suspension improved by two levels. Math improved.
- ASES - Grant to continue after school program
- "Power Hour" - small group instruction with teacher, standards/content focus
- El Dorado Charter SELPA membership approved - rigorous application and interview process, access to more funding and student resources
Jeff Kreiser - Community partnerships
- Marketplace, faith, nonprofit
- Collaboration with Aaron Pagany - website, social media, marketing
- Create a communication plan for following school year, May-April
- Grants, direct and in-kind donation, financial planning
- Donations - holiday party for staff
- MOU shared services, nonprofits
- Enoch Yeung - other after school/evening services to offer families
- K-6 Virtual Academy - service, integrity to Robla School District's mission, possible revenue, Up to 20% of middle school population
- Ample staff and programming, permanent facility
Herinder Pagany - More funding updates
- Comprehensive School Improvement funds
- Grant application for science - 8th Grade outdoor education field trips/hands-on experiences, applied for grants, will hear results in February
- New Schools Venture Fund - Innovations in SpEd/Learning differences, NHCS's approaches to mainstream, inclusion
- Public Charter Schools Grant Program - Closed start up implementation grant, New grants for special populations, growing existing program
IV. Discussion Items
A.
Consideration and approval of First Interim Financial Report for 2024-25 Fiscal Year
5:21 pm
B.
Consideration and approval of (if updated) 2024-25 NHCS Board Meeting Calendar
C.
Consideration and approval of 2024-25 NHCS Declaration of Need for Fully Qualified Educators.
D.
Consideration and approval of Amendment to 2024-25 Student-Parent Handbook
V. Other Business
A.
Board Member requests for future business
None, just grateful for all the great work, dedication, creativity, research, and community partnerships to meet kids' needs!
Table V. for January 27: Items B, C, and D