Mr. Duncan led us in the pledge

with the amended financial packet

Student accomplishments

-Boys soccer won Conference Tournament

Staff accomplishments

-Emily Webb and Chad Campbell secured $1000 grant for stream restoration

- Jen Iden will be recording her classes in collaboration with aiEDU

-EC staff are attending NC EC Conference and Jen Iden is also presenting

-Sarah Kidston was awarded the TC Secondary Educator at the NC Council of Mathematics Teachers

-Our counseling staff has held 2 Coffee with the Counselors sessions

School Accomplishments

-We have a team competing in the NCED Connect AI Solve-a-Thon

-We have begun restoration of our athletic field

Jenny Geer-Hardwick shared some Art from students and about art integration within her classes and how to connect standards from our curriculum. 

She brought examples of artwork from various grades and students for everyone to observe and how it relates back to what they are learning.

 Chad Campbell - Outdoor Ed programming

The main goal for Outdoor Ed is field trips and studying and comparing different ecosystems and life cycles and finding them in the wild. Building background knowledge as we compound on different weeks of study. Nature journaling, gardening, salad parties, and fairy gardens, learning to use tools and landscaping. Chickens have been a great investment. Archery club will start after Winter Break, and phase out Trailblazers Club. Archery Club will hopefully become a team and compete against other teams, and maybe nationally. Students love Buddy Friday (Mr. Campbell's dog) comes to visit to promote positive behavior. 

• Front Left Landscaping Proposal Phase 1 ($2,200)

1. remove existing rock (~$500)
2. grade for positive drainage
3. install high grade topsoil (~$700)
4. plant winter rye+lawn mix and straw ($100)
5. plant and mix mulch one-25 gallon Sweetbay Magnolia ($600)
6. to left of front porch, plant 16 shade perennials (ferns, lenten rose, dog hobble) ($300)

No one came for Public Comment.

Monthly Budget report: seeing increases in pricing, deep diving into budget and next year's projection

$252,000 surplus which includes FEMA money that still needs to be distributed once work is completed

Projected to drop between $6,000-30,000

Cash Board

Medium School with 95 days of working capital

Cash on hand is 1.2 million with all projected expenditures

USDA Update

We are getting close. More paperwork. All of our tasks are done, we are currently getting the building and property reappraised. Possible end of January loan agreement. Hoping to get 3 qualifying bids, and we can choose and get started once approved.

Swing Building is not going to happen as we hoped. The city of Brevard has raised the expenses and the qualifications that come along with the new architectural standards.

Paul Cooper is going to see on Friday, some vans. In December he will report what we can do for the 15 passenger vans. Need to consider that the vans will extend lives of our buses. 

We have a clean audit. No findings.

Policy for second read is Policy for Board Member Policy 2100. So we should delete Policy 2000.

-add the note to Policy 2100

Policy 4200

related to attendance and tardiness, number of items needed to be changed. 

Dr. Pallas wants to make a motion to accept Policy as revised. 

EpiCenter Compliance says we are in compliance.

Did not meet this month.

-Would we consider extending into High School? Early colleges are a great opportunity, this combines college courses and high school. After 5 years, students receive high school diplomas and associate's degree. Mr. Duncan will be having this discussion in December, and TC does not have early college, whereas other counties do. This is a great time to get in on the ground floor, and have collaboration.

-Goal for Mr. Duncan's position is to learn about foundations and opportunities to expand major gifts as we continue to improve BA.

-Front parking will be complete after Thanksgiving Break

-Field is undergoing restoration

Facilities Agreement - fee scale, insurance coverage

-mirrors TC schools, need to make some changes with wording. 

-Take action to move forward with this agreement

-Mr. Duncan will draft something from this to bring to Policy board

covered in last one

424 students enrolled.

As we enter flu season we are averaging 95% of staff on campus, students have dipped lower.

Positive merits and behavior referrals discussed.

Briefing 

We have a lot more info we can share with Infinite Campus. Will be renaming some of the categories, and how they are dealt with. Which grades, and where they are happening. Cost is in terms of time and time lost in class.

Included first run of Infinite Campus Report Cards. See standards based grading. It went well for our first run. Mixed of standard based and traditional grading scale in Middle School. K-5th grade are all standards based grades. We are not able to make an Honor Roll with the mixed forms of grading with the switch to Infinite Campus. We are having discussions about what this looks like moving forward.

Requests

EC 1:1 Assistant - Cheryl Ledford

1:00pm dismissal on December 18, 2025

next meeting will be on December 17, 2025.