No changes needed.

Greg appreciated summer program teachers and students. And also Krishna and her team for all their work prepping all of the documents for the Board's consideration at tonight's meeting.

No board member comment on items not on the agenda.

No public comment on items not on the agenda.

Krishna shared her Head of School report, which is in the Documents section of this meeting.

Steele Street is getting re-paved. Good news but also many new logistics to be considered during the summer program!

Upcoming events include:

• Summer School Ends July 2nd
• New Family Picnic: July 17
• Staff Return: August 2
• School starts for students: August 16

Krishna reiterated that the school is planning for full in-person instruction in the Fall, and shared draft arrival/dismissal procedures.

Krishna shared that the state is considering a pause on most charter renewals, and an extension of two years on most charter terms.

Krishna shared updates on student enrollment and the Governor's proposal related to expanding transitional kindergarten.

Krishna shared about some new work to, over time, balance and lower class sizes. Will be multiple years of enrollment work and planning, and need to align with facility planning. Krishna invited others to participate if interested in helping think through those models.

Krishna shared about goals for the upcoming school year, including the four LCAP goals, and also additional proposed goals related to School-Home communications, student work portfolios, improved community and staff feedback cycles with decision-making, and strengthening anti-racist / anti-biased capacity across herself, staff, and community.

Krishna shared staffing updates related to teachers. Congratulations to Mr. Nate for stepping up into Amethyst! Mr. Nate and Mr. Bagaason are enrolled in additional summer Montessori training! Interviewing teacher candidates next week.

Loren asked how and when it would be decided to open or close classrooms in different levels? Krishna responded that staffing is a major limiting factor -- not easy to find trained teachers. Greg shared that the enrollment modeling work was about trying to answer that same question. Trying to get it ready to bring to the Board by August for further review.

Jan asked about the additional goals. Krishna shared that she wanted to be transparent about her own growth and development as the school's leader.

Hae-Sin stepped away at 6:30pm.

Loren asked about the school portfolios being physical or digital? Krishna responded about the need to engage with teachers to that figure out together.

No other questions or public comment on this item.
 

Stacey shared the Finance Committee's report, which is in the Documents section of this meeting.

Operating income increased due to COVID-19 related one-time funding. Fund balance currently forecasted at 32% of expenses.

Cash on hand still not at our goal of three months' worth, but improved, and hovering around two months' worth.

Stacey further reviewed the assumptions in the budget that was approved, including a full implementation of the salary schedule. Stacey shared how various sources of one-time COVID-19 relief funding can be strategically recognized across multiple fiscal years.

Greg shared that much of next year's fundraising goal has already been secured.

Jan asked about the staffing footprint changes. Krishna shared about the Operations Manager's retirement, adding a full-time substitute.

No other questions or public comments.
 

Hae-Sin re-joined at 6:56pm.

The Academic Committee did not meet since May Regular Board meeting.

No questions or public comment on this item.

Loren shared the FAC report. 

Community of Color Listening Session was led by Dr. Rogers-Ard, Tuesday, Jun 1, 4:00pm - 5:00pm, virtual meeting. Kara, FAC President, shared more details of the feedback.

• Attended by 7 community members
• Strengths identified:
  • Ability to pivot/adapt to challenges
  • Being open to change and/or learning;
  • Providing spaces like this listening session.
• Specific areas of needed growth identified are:
  • Clarity of communication from both our school administration and the FAC;
  • Need consistent translation services at meetings and events;
  • Making space in current committees and groups for diverse membership and leadership.

Jan asked about the goal of the session. Kara clarified that the messaging was about inviting families of color to share their experience of the school. Jan asked about translation needs, and Kara responded using school records when possible, surveying families, and that Spanish/English is the main languages needing translation back and forth.

Loren asked about learning from other schools in the area with multiple languages. Christina shared translation resources.


FAC Future Planning

• FAC-hosted Family picnic on campus July 17, 12pm - 2pm
• Elections and Recruitment
  • The two FAC Board seats will both be up for election this fall
  • Recruiting new FAC members
  • First meeting of 2021-2022 school year in late August
  • Elections planned for September

Greg asked if the next listening session was calendared. Kara said it was not.
Jan asked for further clarification. Kara explained that they want to the next action to be directly something asked from the attendees, which isn't necessarily another listening session as the immediate next action to take.

Hae-Sin encouraged us all to adopt procedures and systems that collect data, report progress, and make this work a part of our structure and processes, and work to ensure that this is not a one-off. Kara agreed.

Jan commented that each Board Committee could take up and embed this work into their structures.

Greg asked about the location for July 17th and Krishna responded that it will be on campus. Jan asked about doing a mailing -- something other than only emailing, to support with communications.

No other questions or public comments.
 

Christina shared the Executive and Governance Committee's report, including wrapping up this year's Head of School evaluation.

Greg shared that the committee discussed recruiting new board members, conducted annual reviews many of the documents on tonight's General Consent Report, and discussed a proposal for organizing the Board officer roles and committees for the upcoming year.

No questions or public comments on this item.

Hae-Sin shared that a major update is still the Governor's Trailer Bill, particularly related to charter term extensions and renewals.

Hae-Sin shared that OUSD staff were to recently report recommendations related to the Blueprint process, but that will now happen in September. OUSD is proposing to use some one-time dollars to pay off the loan to the state. OUSD is facing ongoing structural deficits that may require cuts after one-time dollars are all invested.

No questions or public comments on this item.

Greg reiterated Jan's suggestion that Committees review the full listening session feedback report for further committee-level work.

No other public comments.

At 7:40 pm the Board went into closed session on Public Employee Performance Evaluation - Head of School

and

Conference with Labor Negotiator (Government Code section 54957.6)
     Agency Negotiator:  Davis Leung, Board Chair
     Unrepresented Employee: Krishna Feeney, Head of School

Krishna left the closed session at 8:03pm.

The returned to open session at 9:01pm. No actions taken in Closed Session.