Seaside School, Inc
Minutes
June Governance Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday June 8, 2023 at 8:15 AM
Location
Barker Williams
60 Clayton Lane
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/domain/35.
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.
Committee Members Present
D. Tinghitella, F. Barker
Committee Members Absent
A. Winicki, C. Lewis, K. Goff, L. Blue
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Governance
A.
Fictitious Name Approval
B.
Update on Public Records Request
Dr. O'Prey's emails will forward to Tom Miller as of his resignation date, 6/15. Once we have hired a new executive director, the executive director will be the primary contact for public records request. Joy and Kim will ensure that the statutory requirements that Farrar provided from outside counsel are complied with on the website and at the front desk at both the middle school and high school. Farrar has provided all information requested in the only outstanding public records request that we are aware of.
C.
Consideration of Formal Grievance Process
The formal grievance policy, together with any other recent policy additions, need to be added to the policy and procedures manual and need to be reviewed for consistency. This should be a high priority item for the new executive director, and the governance committee should ensure accountability for accomplishment.
III. Other Business
A.
DEI Policies
Another priority for the governance committee is ensuring that we review the school's DEI policies and consider options to further encourage diversity, equity and inclusion with our staff recruiting, lottery admissions (if permitted by statute) and board selection committees.
The Executive Director selection has been working hard on identifying and interviewing candidates and expects to make a recommendation for the new executive director to the Board in June.
The school has been using the fictitious names Seaside Neighborhood School and Seacoast Collegiate High School and plans to continue to do so. Barker Williams is publishing the legal notice and filing the fictitious name applications that are needed to comply with statutory requirements for use of a name other than the school's legal name.