Under the Canopy School
Minutes
Annual Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday July 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Location
1110 S. Yale Ave.
Tulsa, OK. 74112
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Authority: Title 25 Oklahoma Statutes, Section 311.A.1.
The agenda for this meeting was posted with the County Clerk, at our principal place of business, and online, 48 hours prior to the meeting.
Directors Present
Allison Irby Vu (remote), Patrick Boulden, Shan Glandon, Stacey Leigh
Directors Absent
Stan Khrapak
Guests Present
Amber Gates, Kris Miller, Margaritte Arthrell-Knezek
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve minutes - July 8, 2025 Board Meeting
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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II. For Vote
A.
Vote to approve June financial statement
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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B.
BOARD POLICY ON TRANSPORTATION
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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C.
Vote to Reinstate Stan Khrapak and Shan Glandon As Board members
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Roll Call | |
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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D.
Vote to approve School supplies order
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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E.
Vote to approve loan contract with Oppenheimer Development Properties LLC
Discussion of the terms.
Roll Call | |
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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F.
Vote to approve Kazar Security order
Roll Call | |
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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G.
Vote to approve Procurement Policy edits
Margaritte discussed vetting changes with the external treasurer and Patrick.
Roll Call | |
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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The changes should be noted in the sub paragraph at the end, "Revised, July 16, 2025."
H.
Lightbulb purchase
Roll Call | |
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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I.
Vendor to serve pizza for school lunch
Roll Call | |
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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J.
Vendor contract to Furnish Food Service
Roll Call | |
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Shan Glandon |
Aye
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Stacey Leigh |
Aye
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Stan Khrapak |
Absent
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Patrick Boulden |
Aye
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III. Reports
A.
Head of School Report
Waldorf verse- "...the brilliance of the world's beauty forces me to look deep within my soul..."
- Enrollment - 146 students, using a spreadsheet while TPS gets Schoolmint running.
- Hiring - kindergarten teacher and teacher aide.
- Staff & Board Potluck - Sunday, August 3rd.
- Community building splash pad meet-ups by grade at the K-W Park splash pad.
- Fundraising committee had 2nd meeting, leaning towards pigeon race in conjunction with bird lessons with the students. Set the goal to raise $50,000 for the year which is a combination of fundraising and grants.
B.
Governance/Legal Committee
Board member trainings, details about exact requirements and timeline to complete are being investigated.
C.
Education Committee
Reported by Amber:
- Lifeways Training, attended by Amber and Malcolm (SPED teacher): seeing the way children see to understand their perspective.
- Waldorf Welcome - in-house training with teachers and staff, talked about how birthdays are celebrated in Waldorf schools, made birthday crowns.
- Antioch Renewal training - attended by Amber, Margaritte
- Alliance for Public Waldorf training - attended by all staff and some board members, learning the basics. Lessons in form drawings, perspective, mirroring drawings, how to hold a stick crayon, movement in drawing 'live the shape before you put pencil to paper', etc. Teachers are responding with positivity and curiosity.
- Summer Institute schedule is in process to be finalized.
- Curriculum guides are nearly completed to be shared and printed soon.
IV. Discussion
A.
School Board Training
Margaritte has aqcuired the contact information from the SDE about training requirements for board members.
Margaritte has also reached out to the new training video program about logging in to have access to this resource.
February 5th is the date we received our school number from the SDE.
Shan shared a list of different training topics.
Margaritte will clarify and share the process for connecting and doing the trainings.
B.
Discuss board goal setting workshop/retreat
Discussion of potential facilitators, Margaritte will reach out to Barry at the OPSRC as a facilitator on goal setting.
Patrick mentioned doing the retreat in the fall, Stacey would like to schedule the retreat far enough out to ensure all members are able to attend.
Margaritte thought it might be 4 hours on a weekend day.
V. Proposals for Future Agenda Items
A.
Stacey would like to report on the Alliance for Public Waldorf training - Leadership Track
Shan would like to report at this time too.
8 minutes will be allotted for the entire report.
B.
Election of Board Officers
C.
Annual Meeting document
Stacey will prepare a document with the guidelines for Annual Meetings. The board can discuss, change, amend and approve.
Patrick would like the Annual Meeting noted on the meeting dates calendar when it is submitted to the County Clerk at the end of the year.
D.
Furnish Food Contract
As discussed above
VI. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
- UTCS Monthly Financial Template (Updated June 2025) Board Packet.pdf
- Classroom Furniture & Supplies by grade - Supplies for board approval.pdf
- TERM SHEET- Under The Canopy rev.2.pdf
- Estimate-2025-06-05-GUY8V5.pdf
- UTCS Revised Procurement Policy and Procedures MARKUP.pdf
- S3371283-0001.pdf
- Cici's pizza bid (1).pdf
Board Treasurer Allison Irby Vu was attending remotely and therefore ineligible to discuss or to vote.