Élan Academy Charter School
Minutes
Elan Academy Board Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday July 27, 2022 at 6:00 PM
Location
Élan Academy
1801 L B Landry
New Orleans, Lousiana 70114
709 Park Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70114; (504) 619-9720; www.elanacademy.org
The matters listed are those reasonably anticipated by the Chair to be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may, in fact, be discussed. Other items not listed may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law. All agenda items are informational unless otherwise denoted, though all committee reports require a vote for acceptance. The meeting will be held on the campus of the school.
Directors Present
D. Patin, E. Marrero-Savoie (remote), G. Briggs, J. Stewart, R. Watkins, S. Brown (remote)
Directors Absent
D. Barnes, S. Rademaker
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approval of Today’s Meeting Agenda - Darren Patin (Voting)
II. Head of School Report
A.
Head of School Report – Melanie Askew (Voting)
III. Governance
A.
Governance Committee Report - Darren Patin (Voting)
Committee met on July 20 to discuss the status of the Fischer building transition; Jeremy Thibodeaux's interest in board membership, which the committee approved unanimously; scheduling of board retreat and strategic planning session with Bellwhether - looking at likely a date in September, they are agreeable and NSNO will incur most of the costs; discussed the reorganization of our committess in light of recent board member departures - Gary Briggs will chair the Academic Achievement committee and Erin Marrero-Savoie will chair the Development Committee; discussed our efforts to assist the school in moving into the new building and greeting the students and parents on the 1st day of school.
IV. Academic
A.
Academic Committee Report –
No report was provided
V. Finance
A.
Finance Committee Report – Roger Watkins (Voting)
No report was provided
VI. Development
A.
Development Committee Report –
No report was provided
VII. Additional Business
A.
Old Business
None
B.
New Business - Darren Patin
Board unanimously accepted the resignation of Tiffany Lewis from Board of Directors. We thanked Tiffany for her service.
Board unanimously accepted the resignation of Anane Olatunji from Board of Directors. We thanked Anane for his service.
Board unanimously voted to accept Jeremy Thibodeaux as member of Elan Board.
Board unanimously voted to reorganize committee assignments as follows:
Governance: Darren Patin, Daphine Barnes and Jonathan Stewart
Finance: Roger Watkins and Jeremy Thibodeaux
Development: Erin Marrero-Savoie and Scot Rademaker
Academic Achievement: Gary Briggs and Steven Brown
The Board discussed the meeting calendar and agreed that the board meetings will take place on the last Wednesday of each month, beginning at 6:00 p.m.
The Development committee meetings will take place on the last Wednesday of each month, beginning at 5:15 p.m.
The Finance and Governance Committee meetings will take place on the second to last Wednesday of each month, beginning at 4:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., respectively.
The Academic Achievement committee will meet and determine their calendar prior to the next meeting.
C.
Open Forum
VIII. Closing Items
A.
Chairman's Remarks
Chairman welcomed Gary Briggs aboard and thanked everyone for their continued service in this, the 6th year of Elan Academy
Dr. Clark reported as to the swearing in ceremony for new Superintendent Dr. Avis Williams, who included Elan Academy in the NOPS 100 day plan; Elan is working to get the facility ready for the opening of school on the 15th and 18th of August; hires are being completed and they are pleased with the hires and pace of same; attendance this year will be above budgeted figures; and lengthy discussion regarding LEAP scores, which did not fall below the prior scores and almost across the board were higher than the parish average and higher than the state average in several subjects; discussion of academic dashboard data