The minutes of the regular Board of Trustees meeting of January 22, 2014 were approved.

Mr. Lappa mentioned that the Nominating Committee would like to raise the Board membership to 11 members, then asked if Board members Drucker and Wettermark would agree to serve additional tree year terms on the Board beginning May 2, 2014. They both agreed. The Board voted to approve committee reports.

Mr. Amoss thanked the ISL administration as well as the PTO for the work that they do.

The Director of Finance, Mr. Bruce Fromeyer, has left the position of Director of Finance. Mr. Wilson has engaged the services of Academic Resource Solutions to complete payroll, submit Orleans and Jefferson Parish quarterly financial reports, as well as reconcile bank accounts. The cost of these services will be about $6,200. There was no negative impact on our charter due to the delay in submitting required reports with State of Louisiana and Jefferson Parish. Going forward, two individuals from Academic Resource Solutions will continue to work about forty hours per week, and one additional individual will work on a weekly basis for about $10,000 for a two week, two day period. The job description for Director of Finance is posted on the ISL web site.

Mr. Wilson, referring to the ISL Academic Strategic Objectives, asked Mrs. Laura Adelman-Cannon to discuss testing comparisons and how they are statistically valued to be in line with the ISL mission statement and if these objectives are being achieved. Mr. Amoss asked how Mrs. Addleman-Coleman defines student improvement and requested a concise description of how ISL succeeds academically with all students. ISL administration presented the Facility Plan Draft 2 with several possible courses of action for ISL to lay the groundwork for future enrollment. The plan also included financial implications of the process particularly for the Camp St. and Olivier St. campuses. Mr. Wilson encouraged the input of the Board of Trustees, ISL administration and parents at the Facilities Planning committee meetings to ensure that any decision has the buy-in of all parties.

Mrs. Wilson asked if ISL is participating in the PARCC testing, the new assessment that will replace the Leap Test next year. Mr. Wilson confirmed that ISL is participating in the PARCC testing.

The Board went into executive session to discuss the Head of School’s contract.