Butler Academy
Minutes
Board Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday January 19, 2022 at 5:30 PM
Location
Trustees Present
'. Tyree (remote), E. Mobley (remote), J. Shannon (remote), K. Flaherty (remote), M. Brown (remote), M. Bunnell (remote), S. Wilson (remote), T. Goodson Jr. (remote)
Trustees Absent
None
Guests Present
J. Reyes (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Updates Vice President of Operations and school calendar
A.
Enrollment updates 2021-2022 school year
B.
Academic School Year 2022-2023
Lottery enrollment opened 1/18/2022. Window ends March 1st and the lottery is conducted March 2nd. There are virtual info sessions, ads in the local newspaper, and scholars are given enrollment cards to share with potential future scholars' families.
C.
COVID-19 health and wellness updates
Following CDC and DHEC guidelines as they come out and is constantly changing. Updated COVID guidelines are on the website. Currently, cases are three times higher than they were a year ago. The school continues to follow reported cases and exposures among its scholars and staff.
III. Finance
A.
Finance Summary
Currently approaching 50% of collectibles.
Trying to further correctly categorize items for the accounting firm.
Auditors have sent a draft 990 and an extension has been filed and should be presented to the board at the next meeting.
IV. Scholar experience committee
A.
Scholar experience updates
B.
Academic updates
2nd round of MAP testing just occurred. Trying to normalize percentiles so families know where their scholars are as they are nationally normed and not jus compared to their peers locally.
V. Governance
A.
Board expansion
It was shared that Dr Heatley has resigned from the board. Has expressed that he fully supports BA, as well as the founder and co-founder of the school. Will ask board members to submit 2 names for potential new board members to fill the empty seat and to keep a pool of potential members as we seek to expand board seats as the school grows.
B.
President support and evaluation committee updates
VI. Development Committee
A.
Development committee updates
Charter School Growth Fund is also setting up the school leader with development coaches to help devise a plan to move forward to generate funds and prioritize needs of the school.
Have 241 currently enrolled and there has been little change given we are in he latter half of the year.