Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport
Minutes
GOBPT June Finance Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday June 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Location
375 Howard Ave.
Bridgeport, CT 06605
Committee Members Present
Bea Bagley (remote), Bob Carlson, David Zieff
Committee Members Absent
Corey Sneed, Daniel Luciano, Eva Vega
Guests Present
Benjamin Chan, Farah Martin, John Scalice, Latoya Hubbard
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
Bob Carlson called a meeting of the Finance Committee Committee of Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport to order on Tuesday Jun 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM.
C.
Approve Last Month's Meeting Minutes
Bea Bagley made a motion to approve the minutes from GOBPT May Finance Meeting on 05-12-25.
David Zieff seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Administrative / Financial Overview
A.
Dashboard & Financial Overview
III. New Vendors
A.
New Vendors
No new vendors.
IV. Additional Items
A.
Additional Items
No additional items.
V. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 5:30 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Bob Carlson
CFO, B. Chan, went over the dashboard and current cash position.
Current Cash Position:
Checking: $ 296,766
Food Service: $ 61,465
Reserve: $ 286,127
Total: $ 644,358
CFO, B. Chan reports the school is about 70-75% through the implementation of SAGE. We are aiming for a July 1 soft change over from Quickbooks.
D. Zieff asked when we are going to run parallel? B. Chan reports that July will be the month.
Audit planning- we have an audit coming up on Thursday, June 26th.
B. Chan reports that the operations team with the help of Mr. Litwin, our facilities manager, has been helping the off peak usage of electricity.
We have receivables. We have asked for the 4th quarter sped funding from the bridgeport school district, Commissioners Network, Title 1,2,3,4, State Bilingual and SIG which is a total is $860,000 that is in the process of coming to us. We should receive that in the bank in the next few days.
At the end of May we are at 1,047,417 and an additional 866,610 from receivables.
The updated 11 month actual vs. budget:
State funding had an increase which is about $1,000 per student. This is an added 496,388 new per pupil adjustment.
L. Hubbard reports that the form we give out is an internal form. It is confidential and protected by FERPA and this document allows us to get more information.