Beatrice Mayes Institute
Minutes
WEEA Board Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday January 26, 2023 at 6:30 PM
Location
Beatrice Mayes Institute - 5807 Calhoun RD.
Houston, TX 77021
Directors Present
A. Berry, Ed.D., B. Gilbert, G. Thomas, J. Greenberg, J. Keeton, M. Taylor, R. Caine
Directors Absent
None
Ex Officio Members Present
C. Mayes
Non Voting Members Present
C. Mayes
Guests Present
Ben Gomez (remote), Paul King, S. Shahid, T. Watts
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Determine Quorum Present
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Reading of the Minutes
II. Superintendent Update
A.
Organizational Update
III. Academics
A.
Educational Policies
Academics
Special education policies were erased.
No revised deadline.
System upgrade removed our special ed policies.
Policies approved after special ed policies before they were removed.
We chose to go through process of special ed policies.
Berry moved to approve policies.
Gilbert second.
Policies approved.
IV. Finance
A.
Finance Committee
2021-22 Audit Report presented by Ben Gomez of Gomez & Company.
Discussed each page of the audit with WEEA Board Members.
Billy Gilbert moved to approve audit.
James Keeton seconded to approve the audit.
Voted to accept audit from Gomez & Company.
Deadline to submit audit is January 28, 2023.
Discussed process to submit audit before deadline.
Signatures through DocuSign.
V. Miscellaneous Items
A.
Misc
Doug Foshee gave $250,000 to BMI.
Mark Gregg gave to BMI.
Gloria Thomas requested people give to the school in lieu of gifts for her retirement and her birthday.
$175,000 tax lien we paid will be returned to the school. Money goes back into the project.
Teacher homelessness - first time ever - working through it.
Construction going well.
Still working to improve our grade.
Enrollment is fine.
Students who left the school were due to transportation difficulties.
Currently at 490 enrollment.
Plan to stay above threshold of 500.
Attendance and enrollment data to be tracked for history.
Currently not looking to add more students as not to affect scores.