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Board Meeting changes :
Give the Board Members an opportunity to lead the Board Meetings 
Board of Trustees Succession Plan presented for Board Memebrs to review and provide feedback. 

Effective July 1, 2020  official name is Pharos Academy Charter School 

Terrence had to resign due to personal matters. 
Board Members asked to participate in the referral process for new Board Members 

No new updates, at this time. 
Updates to be presented at the August 2020 Board Meeting. 
 

Strategy Meeting is very important to ensure charter alignment. 
All members are asked to participate and plan to be present for the July 2020 Strategy Meetings.
 

Sara Jean-Jacques presented an opportunity from her firm to mentor and partner with the school to provide support to the scholars.  Book Bag Day, Resume support and other areas that the Principal would be interested in.  

 

No follow up items to be discussed

Prior to end of Board meeting, Briar Thompson suggested the Board discuss plans to address the areas presented by My World Consulting.  Courtney Russell to take the lead on suggested areas listed among the "low hanging fruit" items.  Board will revisit and discuss at the next Board Meeting. 
 

Robb Granado presented financial stats: 

 All financial requirements have been met successfully.  The assessment of the financials presented in detail to provide information around the variances, provided insight on specific budget lines. 
Title funds were reassessed and amended, which provided a favorable outcome for the budget. 

Investments earning to 2%. 
PPP enrollment activity discussed in detail  and the Board was informed of the public listing of loan participants.  

Travis Brown presented:
Repurposing of the agenda.  In the past the academic committee agenda has been centered around numbers and stats.  The recommended agenda revision will be centered around the  board members to engage in key concerns that the school is experiencing around academics. 

Pincipal Brown provided update with highlights around the biggest topic -Fall activities approach for the school.

School  followed DOE's lead when they released a survey to the parents and staff and reservations .  Courtney Russell organized and presented survey to our families and staff members.  July 19, 2020 survey due date. 

Options considered to be presented in the survey for feedback related to the learning models for the returning scholars: 

1. Blended Week
2. Week On/ Week Off

Cafeteria, Gym, and Large Hallways can be re-purposed into classrooms. 
Board presented other options, such as other locations for renting or space donation to be considered.

The school has flexible outdoor spaces available at both the lower and upper academy. 
Models of returning to school were discussed in detail and the contigency plan to prepare the school for the expected return. 

The school is actively preparing to be ready with cleaning supplies, masks and other required items.  School completed the survey from the DOE related to the supplies needed for school reopening.  Chromebook supplies and tech concerns will be address and established with a tech survey to the staff and parents. 

Timeline for the chosen model is expected to be - August 1, 2020.  Feedback from the parents and staff will assist in the decision process. Survey is key to understand and find out what and how our parents and staff members are thinking and feeling. 

Nikali Jones provided guidance based on her current workplace experience. Risk tolerances are different for all individuals. This will need to be handled on a case by case basis.

Sara Jean Jacques offered her support for the HR concerns related to staff members.  HR and legal areas should be shampooed and polished in case there are staff members who are not comfortable with the model to return to the classroom/school building. 

Board asked to be a part of the decision process by voting and repurpose the culture team to support in the model decision process. 
Suggested walk through with the culture committee and the school.  Board in agreement with the suggestion to supoort the Principal with the model decision.
 

No current updates. 
 

Regents vote - successful 
LHA- Wind Down, Little Bird, SBAS, and other standard procedures are moving along as expected. 

Members are asked to complete the financial interest form and a thank you to all those who have already completed and submitted the form.

ProClean contract has been modified to accomodate the requested cleaning services.  Proclean Cleaning services are on schedule to commence in August 2020.