Mrs. Jarvis acknowledged Mr. Featherstone who would be resigning from his position as Executive Director at Merrick Academy. She thanked him on behalf of the Board, Parents and students for his contributions to the school. Mrs. Jarvis also welcomed Dr. Adrian Manuel will be the new Executive Director effective January 2, 2019.Dr. Manuel gave a brief description of his background and experience, he welcomed the opportunity to embark on his new role.

Mr. Featherstone reported on the effectiveness of utilizing the Board on Track system in storing and collecting data for our Board and Committee meetings. He mentioned that the workflow, practices and activities were documented by the Operations consultant and the Director of Operations is implementing a work plan to facilitate the features of the recommendation. He recognized the Instructional and Operations teams on their collaboration for the MOC renewal visit with the renewal consultant. Featherstone stated that he had completed a list of Table of Contents for a standard Board Manual. In his outgoing report, Mr. Fethertherstone recommended that Merrick Academy launches an integrated school wide data collection team, establish a management by objective, revamp building maintenance operation and to establish a robust and stable HR team.

Ms. Pugh noted that the 1st quarter of the Interim Assessments for ELA and Math was completed on November 14, 2018.A data tracker was also completed by teachers on November 30, 2018 and a MOC CSI walk through was conducted on December 6, with the renewal consultants from TUGBOAT. The Special Education student as of November 19, 2018 were 98.Ms. Pugh noted several teachers who were recognized as staff of the month. She also mentioned several upcoming Professional Development sessions from Illuminate and Educlimber. Additionally, the next Interim Assessments will on January 15,2019, and the second I-Ready diagnostic testing is scheduled for January 22, 2019.

Ms. Pugh noted that the 1st quarter of the Interim Assessments for ELA and Math was completed on November 14, 2018.A data tracker was also completed by teachers on November 30, 2018 and a MOC CSI walk through was conducted on December 6, with the renewal consultants from TUGBOAT. The Special Education student as of November 19, 2018 were 98.Ms. Pugh noted several teachers who were recognized as staff of the month. She also mentioned several upcoming Professional Development sessions from Illuminate and Educlimber. Additionally, the next Interim Assessments will on January 15,2019, and the second I-Ready diagnostic testing is scheduled for January 22, 2019.

There Director of Operations was absent for this meeting.

Mrs. Miller noted that current enrollment was at 521 students. As of September 5th, we lost a total of 76 students. 22 Students went to New York Public schools, 27 went to out of New York city Public schools, 14 went to other Charter schools, 9 went to non-Public schools, and 4 moved to out of state schools. The current immunization is at 98.6%. Mrs. Miller reported on several community and family engagements, these will include a Women’s Empowerment workshop, Parents Talk night, Sylvan Test Prep Parents Workshop and Legislative Breakfast. Mrs. Miller expressed thanks to the School for collecting over 77 gifts that were presented to the Forestdale Foster Care agency. She mentioned that Mr. Stringer has created an Intranet which connects all our users and allows us to share the same data. Operations also now has a HR portal that will streamline HR requests with absolutely no paper. There are several new systems that have been implemented for student information, inventory and Transportation

Ms. Johnson shared that the communications committee continues to produce monthly newsletter and enroll parents into GroupMe. The fundraising committee conducted a Pop-up shop selling holiday gifts on December 18th, 19th, and 20th during lunch time and dismissal. To date we currently have 34 students apart of the book club. As of December 17, 2018, the PTO has $5000.11 in treasury.

Mr. Ding briefly discussed the Academic report. He noted that in committee meeting they had looked at the results of the Interim Assessments, instructional rounds and I-Ready testing.

Mrs. Jarvis reported that in the last HR meeting the committee discussed issues around salaries, the budget and the impact. They also looked at recruitment and staffing model.

Mr. Karikari noted that he will be chairing the Finance committee until a new Chairperson is appointed. He shared that the committee along with the school leadership has been looking at strategies to move forward with the current budget deficit

 Mrs. Pierre -Louis reported that the operations committee have been reviewing issues connected to the budget deficit. They are also discussing recommendations made by the Operations Consultant, DEH partners.

There was an average turnout from the parents. They had a vibrant conversation with Teacher’s and Trustees on student’s development. Several parents voiced their concerns on the importance of communication from the school and upcoming strategies to strengthen and improve students’ performance.