Final

Seaside School, Inc

The Seaside School Regular Board Meeting

Published on August 14, 2024 at 4:50 PM CDT
Amended on August 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM CDT

Date and Time

Thursday August 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM CDT

Location

Seacoast Collegiate High School

109 Greenway Trail, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

Founded in 1996
Serving Students in Grades 5 - 12

 

We seek to sustain an educational community where an emphasis on academic excellence is complemented by our concern for each learner’s personal growth and intellectual, aesthetic, and psychological development. The curriculum is developmentally responsive – actively engaging students in learning skills in context, integrative – directing students to connect learning to daily lives, and exploratory – enabling students to discover their abilities, interests, learning styles, and ways that they can make contributions to society.

 

 

Information on procedures for public comment can be found at https://www.seasideschools.net/about/governance 

 

If anyone needs special assistance to participate in the public input session, every effort will be made to provide an appropriate accommodation. When requesting accommodations for public input, please allow no less than 1 business day notice prior to the scheduled meeting.

 

Specific issues about a particular student should only be addressed to the school’s Director of Student Services, rather than the Board of Directors.

 

All public comments will be taken under advisement by the Board, but will not elicit a written or spoken response. The names of persons providing public comment and a brief summary of topics or input will be included in the meeting minutes published. A response will be provided to the stakeholder within seven (7) days.

 

If a person decides to appeal any decision made by this body with respect to any matter considered at this meeting or hearing, he or she will need a record of the proceedings and, for such purpose, he or she may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.

Agenda

Section Number Topic Number Details Purpose Presenter Time
I. Opening Items 5:00 PM
  A. Record Attendance   1 m
  B. Call the Meeting to Order  
  C. Approve Minutes Approve Minutes Andy Jordan 1 m
    Approve minutes for June Board Meeting on June 20, 2024  
  D. Consent Items Vote Andy Jordan 5 m
   

 

1. June and July Financials 

2. School Insurance Policies (Increased $40,000 since last year)

3. Hire Liza Snyder (Art teacher 5-10)

 

 

  
II. Development 5:07 PM
  A. Updates FYI Jon Ward 5 m
   
  • Committee Organization
  • Triumph Grant Letters of Support
  • LDA with SCDC / Performing Arts Center
  • HS Expansion Tasks
  • Capital Improvement Middle School
  
III. Executive Committee 5:12 PM
  A. Expansion Update FYI Andy Jordan 15 m
  B. Special Committee Vote Andy Jordan 5 m
   

The role of the Special Committee is address items in the area of school structure, viability and expansion.

  
IV. Finance 5:32 PM
  A. Updates FYI Frank “Chip” Brown 2 m
  B. Vote for Check Signers Vote Frank “Chip” Brown 2 m
   

Board to vote on adding Andrew Jordan as a check signer and removing Kavanaugh Tucker

 

Regions Operating, Money Market and Athletic accounts

 

To remove:

J. Kavanaugh Tucker – Former Board Chairman as authorized signer as of August 2024 

 

To add:                           

Andrew Keith Jordan – Board Chairman as authorized signer as of August 2024


Truist Internal Account

 

To remove:

J. Kavanaugh Tucker – Former Board Chairman as authorized signer as of August 2024 

 

To add:       

Andrew Keith Jordan – Board Chairman as authorized signer as of August 2024

 

  
  C. 24/25 Budget Updates FYI Frank “Chip” Brown 5 m
   

Budget Highlights: 

1. Health Benefits Increased 14% (We estimated 8%) (Approximately $120,000 adjustment to budget)

2. Insurance Increased by $40,000 (Based on the budget projection from last June)

 

 

  
V. Governance 5:41 PM
  A. Governance Updates FYI Robert Kauffman 2 m
  B. Approval of 2024 - 2025 Internet Safety Policy Vote Robert Kauffman 3 m
   

Consider recommendation from Governance Committee and vote on approval of 2024 - 2025 Internet Safety Policy

  
VI. School Leadership Team 5:46 PM
  A. Executive Director Report FYI Thomas Miller 10 m
   

Student Enrollment Scoreboard (503 Enrolled as of 8/13/24) (Projected 515)

 

- Lost 12 students in high school over the summer due to GPA requirements

- Lost 4 students (rising junior applicants) as they could not pass the PERT

- Three students left Seacoast (moved or went back to SWS)

 

Goals/Objectives for 2024-2025 year

 

Initiatives for 2024-2025

Dream Big (Attached)

Triumph Grant Draft (Emailed)

College Application Support Workshops (Lunch at Coast)

- August (Common Application Support)

- September (College Essay Writing)

- October (College and Career Planning)

- November (TBD)

- December (TBD)

 

Needs:

- Mentors

- Sponsors of the Program (field experiences, internships, corporate sponsors)

- Scholarship Writing Coaches

 

  
  B. High School Update FYI Thomas Miller 5 m
   

We welcomed 175 students to the 9th and 10th grade on Monday. It has been a great start with many parents sharing emails of excitement and enthusiasm! We are offering new courses this year that will increase the student experience. They are AP Seminar, Cyber Security (obtaining the Security+ cert), IT fundamentals (obtaining the JavaScript coding cert), College Success (a college credit course), GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness & Readiness for Undergraduate Programs), and our Entrepreneurship program will additionally offer the Design for Delight certification which will allow our students to get obtain the Master Entrepreneurship Certification. We have also welcomed an 8th grader to our SCHS Geometry class at the beginning of the day which will allow our SNS students a course not currently offered at the middle school. 

Our new athletic programs are in full swing. Our cross country teams will compete this weekend in Niceville. Our swim and dive program began practice this summer and will have a meet later this month. Our weightlifting teams have also begun off-season conditioning. We are still working on finding a girls lacrosse coach and Mr. Moore has interviews set up for next week. 

 

Today, we had our 11th grade and new 12th grade orientation at NWFSC. They will begin school next week. The Device for Life initiative has been a success and has been greatly appreciated by our students and their parents. We have also hosted 2 college workshops to help students with college applications and to help them complete their Common Application. We will host our first Dream Big workshop this Friday. 

 

We will have our first Lunch at the Coast this Friday that will also serve as a club fair. With the extended lunch, it will allow students to gain insight on clubs offered at SCHS while they have extra time to eat and meet our upperclassmen. It’s been a great start and we are looking to build on our momentum and have a great school year! 

  
VII. Academic Excellence 6:01 PM
  A. Textbook Adoption Vote Megan Harrison 5 m
   

Academic Excellence List August 24 - Book titles (agenda updated 8/15/24 at 9:04 to reflect committee recommendation)

  
  B. Academic Excellence Updates FYI 5 m
VIII. Other Business
IX. Closing Items
  A. Adjourn Meeting Vote