Northwest Georgia Charter Academy
Minutes
Executive Committee
Date and Time
Monday November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Location
Cave Spring City Hall
The mission of Northwest Georgia Charter Academy is to encourage and inspire students to discover their unique worth and empower them to become lifelong learners by providing a secure environment where caring and qualified staff will challenge, motivate, and coach students utilizing an immersive approach that will lead them to reach their full potential in school and in life.
Directors Present
C. Potts, J. Taylor, T. Lindsey, T. Williamson
Directors Absent
J. Kinsey
Ex Officio Members Present
D. Williams
Non Voting Members Present
D. Williams
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
D.
Committee Crew Opening
Judy shared a quote.
E.
Norms
Looked at the group norms for our meeting
II. Annual Goals
A.
Y0 Goals
What should we establish as Goals for Operations, Academic, Finance, and Community Engagement & Outreach Committee
Operations: Facility opening on time with timelines of getting where we need to be
Academic: All systems in place to allow training and implementation for EL-curriculum and teacher training
Finance: Establishing Y1 operational budget based on enrollment
Community Engagement & Outreach Committee: 100% Parent engagement in some capacity
Full Board Goal: Each Board member will educate at least 2 community/business partners that may be willing to commit to partner with the school, for example-new identified partners would be financial, volunteer, academic partners.
III. Committee Reports As Needed
A.
Finance Committee
See new goal.
B.
Academic Committee
See new goal.
C.
Operations Committee
See new goal set
D.
Community Engagement & Outreach Committee
See new goal.
IV. Policy Review
A.
New Policies
Enrollment approved and is in new format-amendment
2nd Reading of Policies from first reading in October
New policies-4 new policies for teachers to be placed in personnel handbook
B.
Updated Policies
V. Set agenda for next full board meeting
A.
Items for next full board meeting agenda
Discussed what should be on the next agenda for Board meeting November 17, 2025
VI. Other Business
A.
Any Additional Information
Quick food pantry updated- a few items left over. Planning another handout Saturday 10-2
VII. Closing Items
A.
Closing "Circle"
Closing circle - Feeling better because we get better and better.
Valuable people opening this school
Shout out for the insight of how to approach
Lot of work to do-one step at a time
Agreeing with the quote we will "teach children to think not how to think. "
There are no minutes, this is the first Executive committee meeting.