Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport
Minutes
GOBPT May Governance Meeting
Date and Time
Monday May 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Location
375 Howard Ave. Bridgeport, CT or virtual
Committee Members Present
Bob Carlson (remote), David Zieff, Matthew Nwosu (remote)
Committee Members Absent
Bea Bagley, Tenssie Ramsay
Guests Present
Benjamin Chan, Farah Martin, John Scalice, Latoya Hubbard
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve March 2026 Meeting Minutes
II. Governance Committee
A.
COO Report
B.
CEO Report
CEO went over CEO report to the committee.
Internal Expansion Update:
received a revised internal expansion budget which includes the permits contingency, the entry, and final total budget of 470,033 which is fairly close to our original expected. Thinking realistically with the DRIP funding and new acquisition around the security grant, we are in a good place to move forward.
Teach for America- Potential partnership- They do the recruitment ,the preservice training and they provide the teacher to us. We provide coaching, salary and help with certification and monitoring their masters.
They provide certified teacher program as they get their certification they come in with temporary certification.
III. Other Business
A.
New business
By laws were reviewed by Board Chair, Bob Carlson. B. Carlson discussed needing an amendment to go through the board to have a larger board and add members.
COO went over COO report.
RFP process that we are going to start.
Enrollment update:
D. Zief states he is proud of his affiliation with Great Oaks Charter School. Trefz organization- D. Zief states he will try reaching out to them to see if we can be given the billboard above the school for any amount of time to advertise the school.