Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport
Minutes
GOBPT April Finance Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday April 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Location
375 Howard Ave.
Bridgeport, CT 06605
Committee Members Present
Bob Carlson, Corey Sneed (remote), David Zieff
Committee Members Absent
Bea Bagley, 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
C.
Approve Last Month's Meeting Minutes
II. Administrative / Financial Overview
A.
Dashboard & Financial Overview
III. New Vendors
A.
New Vendors
Total Comm is considered a new vendor, this will be discussed in our board meeting.
IV. Additional Items
A.
ADP Review
We did a new quote from ADP. We are working with Dinsmore Steele and they were able to pull comps. Our healthcare cost did increase but even with the increase, the rates remained below average based on CT averages. Workers Comp portion of the contract was higher compared to other vendors and after we negotiated, ADP offered $10,000 discount from service cost in order to balance the cost out.
This new contract begins June 1st, 2025.
B.
Additional Items
No new items.
B. Chan, CFO, went over dashboard and forecast.
Updated forecast- D. Zieff asked where we will be 3 months from now. B. Chan reports that it all depends if we take into consideration depreciation. If you don't include it, we are about 332,440.
Bills- L. Hubbard states we have the exact numbers but it is roughly around 40,000 between the elevator, HVAC, sprinkler system and a few additional items here and there we are close to 40,000.
FCC's ERate Funding- Internet Service into the Building
We are at our last year of our 5 year plan, we have about 80,000 and we have to Pay 15% of it. They post bids for the internet. We need the license for the access points, we saw that the three year cost us the least amount. We will need a vote during our next meeting.