Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter Schools
Minutes
Monthly Board Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday November 17, 2020 at 6:00 PM
Location
82 Lewis Avenue,
Brooklyn NY 11206
Trustees Present
Cecelia Russo, Doris Givens, Joseph Sciame, Leticia Theodore-Greene (remote), Patricia Bramwell, Tamikka Pate, Tyler McConnell (remote), Victor Rivera
Trustees Absent
Kevin Nesbitt
Trustees who arrived after the meeting opened
Leticia Theodore-Greene
Ex Officio Members Present
Nicholas Tishuk
Non Voting Members Present
Nicholas Tishuk
Guests Present
Lisa-Renée Brown
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
Victor Rivera called a meeting of the board of trustees of Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter Schools to order on Tuesday Nov 17, 2020 at 6:08 PM.
C.
Review of the minutes
Joseph Sciame made a motion to approve the minutes from Monthly Board Meeting on 10-20-20.
Cecelia Russo seconded the motion.
6-0
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
| Roll Call | |
|---|---|
| Kevin Nesbitt |
Absent
|
| Tyler McConnell |
Absent
|
| Cecelia Russo |
Aye
|
| Patricia Bramwell |
Aye
|
| Joseph Sciame |
Aye
|
| Doris Givens |
Aye
|
| Victor Rivera |
Aye
|
II. Academic and Family Life Committee
A.
Committee Update
Chair Cecelia Russo reviewed highlights of academic reports, as attached.. No discussion.
III. Governance Committee
A.
Committee Update
A draft of committee goals will be listed on BOT. Getting legitimately interested individuals interested in Board trustee appointments during the COVID-19 will be a challenge.
IV. Finance Committee
A.
Committee Update
Cleaning costs have risen. $30K per month. We have $12,000 worth of masks but do not know how long this supply is going to last. We've set aside $300K. As far as the PPE funds are concerned, we are expecting all the funds to be reimbursable.
V. Development
A.
Committee's Update
We are looking into launching online platforms for peer fundraising. Use peer-to-peer virtual fundraiser. Add more language to the collateral materials. Amazon Smile charitable giving option maybe something that we should look into. Bed Stuy New Beginnings and Friends of BSNBCS is listed as a charitable organization. Share that as option for donors. Created a page with the URL and a number of ways for people to donate money. Encourage everyone to use Amazon Smile. We have a PayPal link that will allow for donors to make a monetary contribution. Joe will joining Tamikka on the next Development call.
Leticia Theodore-Greene arrived.
VI. New and Old Business
A.
New Business
Applause and sincere gratitude to ED and staff for all they do and continue to keep things going at the school. Many thanks to ED for all the timely updates.
ED Nicholas Tishuk shared that the biggest surprise is that we successfully pulled off our opening relative to our original plan.. With a few exceptions our health and safety plan was executed without much change. The biggest challenge that we did not foresee were the external challenges. Parents received misinformation and we had to do everything we could to counter conflicting messages they received from external sources. We will close the school per the 3% per the city's directive. This is a proactive event. Schools may close on Thursday or Friday of this week. We cannot maintain our operation at a 75/25 split between mobile and in person.
We will close the day after the Mayor makes the call. Assuming that we will be closed for two-three weeks. My sense is that we may be closed until after the holidays.
ED Nicholas Tishuk shared that the biggest surprise is that we successfully pulled off our opening relative to our original plan.. With a few exceptions our health and safety plan was executed without much change. The biggest challenge that we did not foresee were the external challenges. Parents received misinformation and we had to do everything we could to counter conflicting messages they received from external sources. We will close the school per the 3% per the city's directive. This is a proactive event. Schools may close on Thursday or Friday of this week. We cannot maintain our operation at a 75/25 split between mobile and in person.
We will close the day after the Mayor makes the call. Assuming that we will be closed for two-three weeks. My sense is that we may be closed until after the holidays.
B.
Old Business
No old business
VII. Public Comments
A.
Public comments
No public comments.
Cecelia Russo made a motion to Adjourn.
Leticia Theodore-Greene seconded the motion.
7-0
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
| Roll Call | |
|---|---|
| Joseph Sciame |
Aye
|
| Victor Rivera |
Aye
|
| Kevin Nesbitt |
Absent
|
| Tamikka Pate |
Aye
|
| Cecelia Russo |
Aye
|
| Doris Givens |
Aye
|
| Leticia Theodore-Greene |
Aye
|
| Patricia Bramwell |
Aye
|
VIII. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 8:00 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Doris Givens
Documents used during the meeting
- Nov 9 Academic Com minutes.pdf
- Scan0571.pdf
- BSNBCSCommitteeGoalsDraft2020-21v2.pdf
- GovernanceCommitteeUpdate11052020.pdf
- Fin Comm Call Notes - November 12 2020.pdf
- Donation Button Paypal bsnbcs.org.pdf