Atlanta Unbound Academy
Minutes
AUA Monthly Board Meeting
Date and Time
Sunday January 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Location
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Directors Present
A. Williamson (remote), J. Funderburk (remote), J. Green (remote), S. M (remote)
Directors Absent
L. Belvitt, R. Pompey, T. Jones
Ex Officio Members Present
C. Ramsey-Brown (remote)
Non Voting Members Present
C. Ramsey-Brown (remote)
Guests Present
A. Chipman-Leeks (remote), Terrell Thomas (board member) (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
A. Williamson called a meeting of the board of directors of Atlanta Unbound Academy to order on Sunday Jan 21, 2024 at 2:07 PM.
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Approve Minutes
J. Green made a motion to approve the minutes from AUA Monthly Board Meeting on 12-17-23.
S. M seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Finance
A.
FINANCE Update
- Finance Updates
- Changes in the near future
- Substantial improvement in current forecast
- State retention bonus
- Expenses
- Personnel
- Security
- Anticipated moving expenses
- Additional equipment cost
- Changes in the near future
- Operating Cash Flow Gap
- Lower FTE count
- Operating costs are exceeding revenue
- CSDC Plan
- Reimbursement expectations
- Speaking to charter school capital
- would need to vote on resolution
- Downside
- Fundraiser
- Smaller fundraiser in Feb and another in the spring
- Alaina will reach out to Terrell to see interest in fundraising
III. School Leader Report
A.
School Updates
- Enrollment
- School year 2024-2025
- Families withdrew in Dec
- A few families are moving out of state
- Some concerns with limited specials
- Layoffs
- Afterschool
- Separate of AUA, parents have to pay
- Keeping the families we have
- SCSC monitoring results
- Very minimal findings
- Findings from board perspective
- Dinged for budget meeting
- Labor law postings
- 2 policies
- Director of Finance
- Asynchronous plan they have asked us for
- PTO has gotten a lot better in the last 2 months
- Chats with executive team
- Big Event
- Partnership with Hawks
- Feb 3rd - 100 tickets
- Not a field trip, families will have to bring their students
- Only including 7th & 8th grade
- Tuesday we closed the school bc weather
- Wednesday we closed the school again
- Pipe was frozen
- Everything wasn’t working until mid-day Thurs
- Temperature under 30 degrees - concerns with pipes freezing
- Have to run generators 24 hours to keep pipes warm
- We will have extra cost for fuel and generators for 1 week
- Wednesday we closed the school again
- Modulars
- External Partnership
- Vote on school calendar
IV. Facilities
A.
Facilities Update
- Managing ongoing litigation
- Certificate of Occupancy
V. Govenance
A.
Governance Updates
- Board training
- New board member
VI. Public Comment
A.
Public Comment asked for. No public comment was made.
Public Comment asked for. No public comment was made.
VII. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 3:20 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
A. Williamson