RISE Prep Academies
Minutes
Standing Finance Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday December 10, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Location
30 Cumberland Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Committee Members Present
C. Dias, J. Leveille, K. Waller, R. DaCruz
Committee Members Absent
None
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
Mr. Leveille asked what it means to say that six charters have been served in response to his question about unions. Ms. DaCruz said that six charters have received official notice that their staff are interested in unionizing.
Mr. Leveille asked for clarification about the audit update notes and inviting PPA to attend a board meeting. He asked again that PPA attend, and the group discussed timing. The group decided to have them attend in January.
II. Finance
A.
Audit Update
Mr. Leveille asks about the audit status and Ms. Waller reviewed the nature of UCOA (the Uniform Chart of Accounts). Ms. Dias explained that UCOA is used to compare districts to each other and that Scituate uses uCOA to track the correlation between spending and academic progress. Ms. Waller reported that she has received the final UCOA file from RIDE, which was the barrier to an on-time audit in previous years. Ms. Waller believes that we are on track to submit the audit on time.
Ms. DaCruz stepped out to print the minutes for members who were having trouble opening the document from Board on Track.