Empower College Prep

Minutes

Governing Board Meeting

Date and Time

Monday April 8, 2019 at 4:30 PM

Number to call in: 
7127704700 x 558890
Notice of Public Meeting can be found at: 
5757 North Central Ave and 2411 Colter Street

Trustees Present

K. Erickson (remote), P. Welborn, S. Breen

Trustees Absent

G. Perez

Ex Officio Members Present

B. Holman

Non Voting Members Present

B. Holman

Guests Present

A. Eich, A. Masad, B. Jones, Matt Breecher, R. Rossi

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

P. Welborn called a meeting of the board of trustees of Empower College Prep to order on Monday Apr 8, 2019 at 4:35 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes

P. Welborn made a motion to approve minutes from the Board Meeting on 03-18-19 Board Meeting on 03-18-19.
K. Erickson seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

II. Executive Director Report

A.

ED Report

Occupancy date set for October 29th for the new campus 
Enrollment: stable enrollment, details have been tracked by principles 
Development update: we are doing one final push for fundraising this year, we are doing a 3 level campaign 
 

III. Committee Reports (Academic Reports)

A.

High School Principal report:

Student retention: retention is looking good, working on classes and schedules
Teacher evaluations: 3 teachers are moving up towards the master teacher level, they will be our lead teachers 
Sheila- had a question, how do you measure the data when you first started
Bob- we started with the benchmark test
learning a lot about the summit, alignment, benchmark tests, etc. 
Pat- if you can read 8th grade at 41% what does the 41% mean? ELA
Bob- 41% of the kids are on track right now based on summit performance 
Pat- on track for what 
Bob- to pass for the AZ merit 
- no further questions 


 

B.

Elementary School Principal report

The lead teacher is back
New action: having fewer kids with intentional focus, we are in a cycle of review so in May we will see results 

IV. Finance

A.

Financial Report

The financial report reflects the closing of the February books: any future hopes of expansion for the future would be to stay at 1.2, we are at 1.65 currently.
State and federal reimbursements
Cash on hand- 
Pat - Capital project 
is there something we should be looking at that will show us the tracking, for the money coming in from the capital  project  
(very high-level tracking) 
 Angela- next meeting I can show you documents for this 
- Project budget 
Action piece- Angela needs to bring tracking of bond funding for the next meeting 
 

V. New Business

A.

Teacher Development Program

Bring back rubric for classroom site funds, determine influence if any of post-grad work 

VI. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 5:52 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
P. Welborn