Welcome of new board members Elliot Clark and Trish Blackmon

Dave Nagel read the conflict of interest and ethics statement- no conflicts brought forward

Review of agenda by Dave Nagel

Open up for public comment- none received via email, opened up to online zoom meeting to public: no comments brought forward

Lindsey Sealy- discussed proposed charter revision

• Last year worked on updating handbooks, code of conduct, handbook 
• Exclusion was an issue brought up last year by lawyer- a clause should be written into charter- clause on removal of persons due to threats and safety situations. This needs to be added to our charter. Amendment sheet can be added to charter
• Lindsey read this exclusion clause that lawyer recommended to add to our charter as an amendment.
• Need board approval minutes for amended charter change.
• Signed by BoD chair and ED

Setting dates for regular board meeting dates for next year

-Discussion on which Tuesday of the month works best.

-Decided 4th Tuesday of the month works best

Lindsey discussion on the ERA values

• Want to bring pieces together with vision to make clear all the pieces that captures the essence of where we want to go
• Values discussed on how we build up to the educational model
• Core values that have been discussed: Belonging, Character, Growth, and Creativity
• We want to see these focus on what makes ERA, ERA- consider them with all we do in hiring, lesson plans, everyday life at ERA. 
• Weaved into everything and the whole experience for ERA
• Discussion with board of what was presented and the positives around these core values.

Dave Nagel: discussed the revised job descriptions of BoD positions, Administrative staff. 

• Cleaned them up and made them more accurate.
• Looked good to each board member 
• Sabrina recommended getting on website

Lindsey- discussed update on staff handbook

(similar to last year) 

• 8 added polices- substances, pregnancy and nursing, threat management, pesticide notifications, secondary employment, address confidentiality, and title IX policies.
• Couple things got clarified- equal employment opportunity, grievance/appeal, paid time off (pto) days policies, religious, military, grading distribution expectations.

Lindsey Discussed- title grants application authorization needs board approval. 

Dave Nagel went over the board end of year assessment

• Survey given to each board member ahead of time
• Dave summarized collective assessment and summarized.
• Opened up for reflection- All members commented in a very positive nature.
• Dave shared ERA board maturity assessment chart-made progress

Board Retreat slide discussed results of doodle poll on best time for board retreat. 

• Discussed potential topics-went line by line of potential topics put forth.
• Trying to get all 11 members all present so resending another doodle poll to include weekdays from noon-6 to try and get all 11 members there. 
• Going to try and assign topics and assignments in July

Sabrina went over budget report for May.

• We are where we need to be for expenses and surplus
• Doing well and Lindsey keeping up with all our documentation

Dave sent out an email regarding open meeting law

• Announced beforehand, minutes kept, virtual links given or location, closed meeting needs to be announced.
• For committees need to do that as well. How do we manage these committee meetings, just a discussion around things- can meet without being announced
• Discussion around confidentiality issues and other just brainstorming sessions. How can we do this correctly without issues. Can we rename committees to teams or other term?
• Kristin gave comments regarding wanting to get community input into committees
• Potentially bring lawyer to next board meeting to give feedback.
• Will revisit next month.

Admin Updates 

Celebrations:

• Floors and rugs are clean.  Gym floors are redone.  Teachers have already begun working in their classrooms.

Testing:

• Spring testing wrapped up well.  Shout out to Mrs. Coburn for a fantastic year of testing.
• Test scores have come back, minus the science and biology scores because this is a renorming year for those tests. 

Personnel: 

• Casey Trull - hired as High School Dean of Students
• Amy Cowan - hired as 2nd grade teacher
• Kristin Pruitt - New HS Social Studies teacher 
• Michael Andrews - New HS Math Teacher 
• David Gaddy - New HS Math Teacher 
• Jen Grabe - Nurse 

General:

• Admin team has begun meeting in preparation for next school year and we have set bi-weekly meetings for the year.
• Summer camps have been well-attended and kids are having fun!