Eric read the guidelines for public comment and invited anyone to add their comments. There were no emailed requests for public comment.

Aaron Bugher from Wake County provided public comment thanking the Board for holding a town hall and noting that he would like to have notice earlier and noting that he received an email with details a week in advance of the meeting. 

Cory Draughn from Charter Success Partners presented to the Board. He thanked Exploris for the long standing membership with Charter Success (since 2017.) He provided an overview of CSP and their services, basic expectations/ fiduciary duties and best practices of public charter school boards, and a financial framework overview. 

Cory took a few follow up questions from board members.

Board members were provided with the usual monthly financial reports in the packet. There were no follow up questions.

The board welcomed Alannah back to the board and her work with finance. 

Board documents like conflict of interest statements were distributed to board members, signed and collected from those in person and requested from those online. 

Ethan made an oral report about the fall benchmark data, the process of how our teaching teams go through the data and apply strategies for intervention as needed. NC Checkins will begin next week; it's the 1st time Exploris has used this assessment school-wide

Governance meets bi-monthly unless there is a pressing policy issue or a board candidate to review and did not meet in October. Lauren gave an update on the policy review that the Campbell Law school group is working with us on. This is a great connection where Exploris gets the benefit of educational policy advice and at the same time is providing real-world examples to train graduate students in education law and policy. 

No new resumes for board members have been received. 

A survey was sent out for school community members who had expressed an interest in this committee to determine the regular meeting schedule. The public invite will be sent out shortly once that day and time is solidified. 

Steven is the chair for this committee and was not able to be present this meeting so he will update next month. 

Josh presented an update, including details on the recommendations from Cap Dev about a position description for leading our capital campaign; Cap Dev is providing this guidance pro bono. Josh described the next steps in the land testing and process, including required steps for the Kindley St. property.

Shawna presented an update.  Kaizen has been working on a tracker for sharing ideas and communications.

Richard presented an update, including that the Foundation Report is ready to be submitted and they are running the first of two teacher grant cycles. 

Grace presented an update; Fall Festival is tomorrow 5pm-8pm

Deb, Josh and Ethan presented highlights. The PGP cycle is nearly completed, Expeditions and field experiences are in full swing, our first round of using the NC Checkins assessments is starting next week. The students are looking forward to Spirit Week and we enjoyed the visit from Hiroshima University of several of their pre-service teachers who presented multiple lessons on Japanese culture to grades k-8. 

• The recent Town Hall was successful and a wrap up and description of the discussion was shared with the Exploris community through an email 
• This was the first of three Town Hall style events planned for this year; the format will alternate between fully in person and fully remote. The next meeting will be a remote format and will be in January. 
• with Steven absent, we did not discuss the other two agenda items. 

There were no items for closed session.