US Supreme affirmed Charter Schools are public.  Religious Charter Schools are unconstitutional.

State budget about to finalized.

July 31 is  Charter School Summit in Orlando, Florida.

This is the 30th year of Charter Schools in DE, and a number of special events are planned.

Stay tuned.

Brian reported on numbers of kids in the building and numbers of competed applications coming to a total of 173.  We are still a bit low but making steady progress.  Work has progressed with planning for next year, looking at different scenarios for different numbers of kids in each grade in order to meet requirements of DOE for staffing, scheduling and classes.

Several events coming up: a field trip to the Shore Bords opening game, a field day, and the promotion ceremony for eighth graders moving into the ninth grade.

Brian is working with potential partners who would be in the building this summer which would generate income through rent for BASSE.

Dr. Kim reported that we are post-postponing the golf outing fundraiser to Summer of 2026 when we are better prepared to staff and organize.

Meanwhile we will look to identify other fundraising opportunities.

Karen Higgins reminds the Board we should do the popcorn fundraiser and both Kate and Dr. Berry agreed to assist.

Kate reviewed activity in the grants arena, having submitted two grants to date and one is on target for submission May 31: 1) Ed Prize grant to support the Personal Learning Plan at BASSE; POSDC Mini grant to support the Home BASSE Safe Space program; and 3) Highmark BCBSD Blue Print Large Gant to support CHWs on the staff at BASSE.

There are other grants in the pipeline as well as other fundraising efforts already underway.

The Board needs to review the following documents:

Review the March 2025 financial report and vote to accept or reject.

Review the March 2025 CBOC meeting minutes and vote to accept or reject.

Review the April 2025 CBOC report and vote to accept or reject.

Review the April 2025 CBOC meeting minutes and vote to accept or reject.

There was discussion around the March, April and May minutes for the CBOC meeting.  Kate got confused about which minutes we were approving, and then the group was reminded that technically, the only thing the Board had to approve was the web report, so not vote was taken on the minutes, which will be posted as reviewed.

There was brief discussion about changing the signers on the Proximate account, but Karen raised concerns that such actio would require a vote of the Proximate Board.  Concensus could not be reached about whether this was necessary without further information and a review of Proximate and Board meeting minutes prior to September 2024.

The motion was tabled.