Opening Items

Finance

- To review the monthly financials
 

Education

• Our Saturday Test Prep Academy will start the second week of January
• We have budgeted to double the number of students serviced this year
• Test prep will be for both ELA and Math
• High 2's /low 3's are the targeted students for this initiative

Governance

I. A list of potential questions to use to interview potential new board members has been drafted and attached to this agenda

•  Need to discuss if any need to be revised or removed
• Need to discuss if any other questions should be added
• Should some or all of these questions be given to candidate in advance in the form of a questionaire?

II. Potential New Board Member

• Hamilton Raymond of Medgar Evers College (bio attached)

• There is a webinar about Board recruitment on Tuesday December 11th at 2PM
• You can register for this webinar directly on the Board on track website
• Recruiting new Board members is crucial to our Board's success. We need to form a committee to address this.

• At a subsequent meeting with Charlie and Meghan from NextJump they revealed that the $50K funding opportunity was to be focused on staff (Better Me) rather than another student initiative
• The purpose of this initiative by them is to improve staff work life balance in the believe that before you can take care of others you need to take care of yourself ( Better Me + Better You = Better Us)
• We conducted a "Better You Initiative with NextJump's support to get staff input as to how to spend the $50K on staff
• After staff making proposals and voting, it was decided that the money would be spent on travel vouchers for staff
• See attached document for details