Dir. Huddle made motion to approve agenda.

Dir. Pehl seconds the motion.

Motion passed unanimously.

Public comments made by Jessica Majerus:

• I would like to help provide some context on teacher credentialing
• Going to email an article to the board
  • Says there are 13K teachers not fully credentialed in the state of the California
• Concerned that the board and Dr. Vincent are making decisions off of poor data or out of date data
• She was offered multiple signing-bonus offers
• Consider this as your work to retain the staff 
• California is currently waiving the fees for all credential exams - like CBEST
• Those are the main things I want to lift up right now
• Just want to continue to advocate that aurum is not a turn-around situation
  • Cites the data from last year - we were far away from where we needed to be but we had wins
  • Quotes Vincent saying he would gut the whole thing; states that this would be a misstep as the school had much working for it this past year
• Concludes those comments

• Huddle gave a fundraising update on a Lahaina fundraiser to unify kids
• Director Vincent concludes working group updates.

• 90% done with the new website
• The California School Dashboard - all categories are being updated but updates won’t show until late September/early October
• Football and Volleyball - ordering new uniforms for the kids. Going to go on the website.
• New Director of Operations!
• Welcomed a New Office Manager!
• Consultant - Justin Franklin
• Restructured Recruitment Coordination
  • Using a large team of staff (six staff) to group-approach recruitment and cost management.
• Credentialing - at 25% and focused on growing this number
• Curriculum development and instructional strategy - a few days away hopefully form a new hire of a curriculum coordinator
• Staffing Capacity
  • Every position at the school is posted with a zip recruiter

In conclusion of the ED report…

• Fine tune our systems
• Understand our roles

Questions:

• Erika asked to assist with recruiting
• Huddle asked that Dr. Vincent keep black student enrollment at the heart of the recruitment and hiring strategy.  Dr. Vincent agreed and restated his commitment to do so.

• We had a net loss of $127K last year
• We have $487K in Unearned Revenue

Bryan and Franci present last fiscal/present fiscal reports.

Looking up briefly (Curtis) Facebook page isn’t running ads. Pushes for a Facebook budget to run ads for the school for marketing/enrollment purposes.

The next board meeting is set for 10/26/2023 at 6pm at Aurum Prep.