Ms. Romano shared future organizational capacity-building plans for the network team. Members of the board discussed the benefits and risks associated with adding a network level talent and recruitment position. Other items discussed included potential grant funding and funders.
 

Ms. Ford gave an update re: development planning. She will send a request to all board members for a list of names of folks that are local business owners to invite to an engagement at the school to begin to build financial support to meet the goal of the 75,000 match grant that SGP gave us. This is just as much about community support and investment in the school
 

Ms. Romano also gave an update on High School Planning- labor market committee, curriculum committee, school culture and family engagement committee, early college committee are all having meetings, progress is being made, and June 7th the HS design team will come back together. They are currently exploring many diverse options for design.

She shared the DESE process for applying for seats for expansion to High School, there are 334 seats remaining in Springfield, there really are 600, but the State holds back seats for contingency plan purposes. The HS expansion is designed to be a 400 student HS.

The current budget was shared, we are operating with a surplus, the result of excellent management by Lynne.

Six members of the board were in person and 7 are needed for quorum. The budget was presented and will be voted on next time.

A quorum of 7 is needed and 6 were physically present- we will vote on the adjustments made to term limits in the bylaws. Charlie Alves term is ending and will not be joining for another. The board's charge is to recruit potential candidates who are diverse.

We will need a quorum for the next board meeting to vote in multiple items. We will likely need to reschedule.
Graduation is June 13th at 5pm at the South End Community Center. Tickets are available from Rachel