Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport

Minutes

GOBPT March Governance Meeting

Date and Time

Monday March 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Location

375 Howard Ave. Bridgeport, CT or virtual

Committee Members Present

Bob Carlson (remote), David Zieff, Tenssie Ramsay (remote)

Committee Members Absent

Bea Bagley, Matthew Nwosu

Guests Present

Benjamin Chan, Farah Martin, John Scalice, Latoya Hubbard (remote)

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

Bob Carlson called a meeting of the Governance Committee Committee of Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport to order on Monday Mar 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM.

C.

Approve Last Month's Meeting Minutes

Tenssie Ramsay made a motion to approve the minutes from GOBPT February Governance Meeting on 02-18-26.
David Zieff seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

II. Governance Committee

A.

COO Report

COO, L. Hubbard, went over COO Report.

 

  • Enrollment as of today, March 16th, we have over 160 applications for the 2026-2027 school year. Majority of those are going to the High School. 9th grade right now has 64 applications for the 9th grade. Still a lower number of 6th graders but we are actively recruiting and 7th grade because our current class is small. 
  • We are officially at 100% certification for all teachers in the school! This is really exciting!
    • Our next steps:  Started working on certification initiatives for next year. 
      • We sent out intent to return surveys to staff so that we know who's coming back and get that process started early this year. These are due by end of April.
      • Scheduled end of year check ins
      • CERT paperwork for next year is due at the end of May and any of our staff members that need to enroll in programs in order to be certified for next year, proof of enrollment will be due at end of May.

B. Carlson reports that the school is doing a great job for having 100% certification. 

B.

CEO Report

CEO, J. Scalice, went over CEO Report for the board meeting today.

 

CEO reports there has been an ongoing situation with 9 students loitering while waiting for the city bus at the Chavez Bakery down the road. This was brought to our attention by the Chavez Bakery. They have involved city council and police and there was a meeting were everyone made recommendations. We have since done a policy review and taken steps to correct this with our students. There may be a public comment on this today from city council member. 

 

In addition to the policy we will be reviewing some of the plans and expansion which is now looking to be an internal expansion maximizing the current sq footage that we have.

 

Update on new grant opportunity around state Americorp application. This would cut our output for the program by 40-45% which would be about a $300,000 savings.

III. Other Business

A.

New business

No new business.

IV. 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 5:13 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Bob Carlson