Seaside School, Inc
Minutes
September Development Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday September 10, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Location
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/iix-zata-man
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.
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Committee Members Present
D. Lilienthal (remote), J. Ward (remote), L. Blue (remote), M. Harrison (remote), T. Brooks (remote)
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
A. Jordan (remote), D. Ward (remote), K. Mixson (remote), M. Kerrigan (remote), Russell Hale (remote), T. Horton (remote), T. Miller (remote), lane_redding@ucbi.com (remote), matthewlauderdale@gmail.com (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve August 2024 Development Committee Meeting Minutes
II. Development
A.
General Items
B.
Community Relations
There is a meeting today with SCDC and SNS to discuss the LDA and the Performing Arts Center Project. Pickup and dropoff discussion will also be an item at the meeting. More to follow.
There is a meeting this Thursday at Seaside with the County on the Van Ness Butler Parking Lot. Both Tom and Kim plan to attend and represent the school's interests.
Impact 100 will be on campus this week to consider a $100k grant for the music program.
The Capital Campaign continues with the support from Teresa and our consultant, Brian Boone. Large donations are being pursued throughout the community with several meetings and events planned for the fall. Tom Glavine's Field of Dreams is full. No team spots available and all proceeding well on silient auction. The Race Committee is fully energized with great leadership on that front as well.
C.
Strategic Planning
Lee Mixson is heading up the onsite improvements to the middle school campus. The most pressing items currently (outside of IT issues) are electrical outlets in the culinary area and the A/C units for the school. Plan is to get quotes on replacing the A/C units over Christmas Break and to get quotes and lists of items to address over the summer break months in advance of the summer.
D.
School Updates
Russell Hale was present to discuss the IT upgrades needed to adequately serve both campuses. He plans to split the middle schools internet off of the high schools. The high school needs its firewall software updated and the middle school will need its own server and firewall. This solution will be very inexpensive (less than $5K). More to follow.
E.
Campaign Support Consultant
Overall both Tom and Teresa felt DAR was adding value to the capital campaign. The first 3 months was covered by a private donation. The committee as a whole supported this contract extension and the money for this was in the budget.
The Triumph Grant Pre-application comments were received on Sept 9th. Much of the comments focused on the issue of the charter school being the grant recipient. The preference of the Triumph attorney is for the WCSD or NWFSC to be the recipient. Much of this centers on the financial stability of public entities over charter schools.
Letters of support have been received by county commissioners, the local Chambers, the Walton EDA, and other community members. These letters are due by the end of the week.
High school construction is proceeding mostly on schedule. The rain has delayed the completion of the West parking lot, but that is expected to be completed within a week of the return of dry conditions. Both buildings are now in vertical phase of construction.