Pharos Academy Charter School
Minutes
Pharos Academy Charter School Finance Commitee Meeting (Zoom)
Date and Time
Tuesday June 14, 2022 at 5:00 PM
Location
Courtney Russell is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Courtney Russell's Personal Meeting Room
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Committee Members Present
J. Lopez-Molina (remote), K. Shah (remote), R. Granado
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
C. Russell (remote), M. Dorsey (remote), R. Keogh (remote), S. Landry (remote), T. Brown (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Finance
A.
Monthly Financials
III. Investment Accounts
A.
Investments
N/A for June
IV. Other Business
A.
June Board Meeting Preparation
N/A for June
V. FY23 Budget
A.
FY23 Budget
Robert Keogh from 4th Sector Solutions presented the FY23 budget for Pharos Academy Charter School.
Key highlights included revenue, targeted enrollment (96% or 682 scholars), personnel expenditures, benefits, Other Than Personnel (OTP), etc.
The team discussed scholar enrollment dates, approaches, etc. A special education population that mirrors our FY22 population was accounted for (4% of scholars). Scholars in the 20 - 60% tier yields an additional 11K.
Per pupil increases are at approximately 4.7% or $800 more per scholar.
We do not qualify for Rental Assistance at this time.
Stimulus monies (CRRSA - second round of Trump stimulus) - we are drawing down $402,000 on this which will exhaust the grant.
The American Rescue Act is also being included for FY23; this will leave us about 650K to draw down on in FY24.
We assume continued receipt of Title I - IV, IDEA, e-Rate, etc. This accounts for approximately $640K.
There is a slight drop in Title I funding due to one-time carryover being used.
We also received some one-time CSP revenue that was recognized in FY22. That does not exist in FY23.
There is 550K less in revenue for FY23 projected than we received in FY22.
B.
Business Insurance
Courtney Russell reviewed the Business Insurance proposal from our broker, Bolton.
There is a 12% overall increase in costs and an optional Workplace Violence add on available.
VI. Employee Health Benefits
A.
Employee Health Benefits
Michael Diament provided an update regarding staff medical benefits. We discussed what happened with our current provider, the process we have undergone in the past month, and what the school's recommendation is in moving forward.
We will include comparison of quality of benefits for staff into Thursday's meeting presentation.
The forecast has not changed greatly. There will be some final adjustments at the end of the month but we continue to anticipate a surplus closing out FY22.
Through May of 2022 we have recognized revenue at 14 million with a bit more to be recognized in the next 30 days. Salaries have included $8 million including summer accruals, taxes, benefits.
OTP is where we have spent a lot of time to ensure we will meet where we need to be by the end of the year.
We have approximately $350K to recognize in OTP for the remainder of the year. The contingency has been removed. There is nothing to be booked there.
Net surplus is at 600K; at the end of the year this is projected to come in around 25K. This will change some but by all projections it may be a bit more.
From a balance sheet perspective cash 4.3 and receivables of 1.4 million; much will be claimed in the next week. We have been reconciling these numbers. The dollars will start being claimed down on a consistent basis monthly and quarterly to ensure there are no cash issues.
We ended the month with payables of about 252K. Most are typical bulk month-end items. Close to 900K in the per pupil funding is included. Equity is 8.8 million.
The summary sheet is just for this year. 4SS will address the formatting for FY23 by adding in graphs and additional information the Board should be seeing. If the Board has feedback this should be shared with 4SS.