Olivia Ellis

Safety Patrol Students: Eli Seefeldt, Quin Philyaw, and Olivia Ellis

Safety Patrol helps keep students safe, greet them in the morning and help get students in the building. There are around 8 students that are on this Patrol. They arrive at school very early so that they can fulfill their duties by 7:30am. Officer Light, Ms. Monk, and Ms. Seefeldt help train these students for 2-3 days after interest is expressed. They are essential to our morning routine.  

Officer Light - 20 years as an SRO

Mr. Duncan wanted procedures discussed to ensure student/staff safety.

• Vector Safe Schools Training - at least 15 required for each staff member. These range from blood borne pathogens, FERPA, De-escalation Strategies, etc. The director from Vector Safe Schools came last fall and was very impressed with the training of our staff.
• We have already completed the annual safety assessment for the year. This helps us apply for grants that we are interested in, such as for new cameras for the inside of the building and the back field/gym/bus lot. 
• Shelter in place kits would also be beneficial for the classrooms. These kits would help keep students occupied during long classrooms stents.
• Stop the Bleed kits

None

Mr. Paul Cooper

Projecting $34,000 surplus for our budget this year.

Currently have 86 days of cash on hand as of today.

- We need a new bus. 

• We could lease a bus $144,000 over 5 years. Would be around $3,000/mo.
• We could lend ourselves money to buy the bus from our unencumbered funds at a 7% interest loan. But we will show a monthly $2817 expense and revenue line item in our budget. We can also pick our own interest rate. This way it cancels each other out for the operational year. We would pay this loan back over 5 years. 
• Biggest risk: the lease would be at an interest rate of 8.5-9%
• There are no lightly used buses around. And the past 2 buses that we have purchased from out of state have not had NC required features, and we need to make modifications.
• Our cash on hand requirement is $450,000 and we have always met this each year. CSP Charter Success Partners says that as long as we explain it well, then it will not stop us from renewing our Charter.

- Ask CSP how this would be booked.

Committee Consent Items

1.  Additional Instructional Assistant- Wanting to move our 4th Grade Instructional Assistant to full-time PE, and hire a new Instructional Assistant for 4th Grade.
2. Add budget line items for 

• Additional Science Supplies for 4-8th Grade because the state has changed the required science equipment.
• STEM Building budget line for this so that we know exactly what these expenses are.

Dr. Abe Pallas

- 3 policies that he is recommending we change or create

1. Board Member Selection - procedure for bringing on new members of the board
2. Board of Directors - proposed revision Policy 1110, this discusses the number of Board Members that have children attending BA, and that this number should be around 25% or less.
3. Board Committees - revised Policy 2230, to organize committees to review and investigate the purpose of informing and recommending action to the Board

Mr. Tyree Griffin

- HVAC will be installed Friday, Sept. 20

- Stain for the stage

- Dedication Ceremony and Signage for the stage

- Redo and patching of the parking lot

- Safety Grant

- Master Grounds Plan

Mr. Ted Duncan

- Grant approved to purchase chickens and chicken tractor - 5th Grade would get hands on experience and Mr. Chad Campbell is a chicken farmer.

- Clothes Bin on Campus: for lost and found items, fundraiser for the school, we would get 40 cents for each pound of clothes/items. Best placed over by side lot. 

Ms. Jen Silva

- Giving Day, September 25, any purchases from Cognative Brew House in the morning and Sideways Farm and Brewery in the evening will give back to BA.

- Live2Lead fundraiser, October 4: we will have exciting speakers, with 120 slots available to attend. This is a partnership with Leaders Building Leaders, at no cost to us. 

- Upcoming Important Dates

1. Key Falls considering doing an event for us. October 14 is a possibility. We hope to have an event for team building etc. 
2. PTO is going to be doing Penny Wars, October 7-25

Ms. Jamie Atkinson

- Give feedback by October 4, for the Strategic Plan. Abe Pallas met with Academic Excellence Committee about the Strategic Plan.

- Proposal for Board Meetings for the remainder of the year. 

Mr. Ted Duncan

- completed the 20th day of school with 435 students

- We achieved B status and exceeded growth in all academic areas. We also exceeded growth in all sub-groups except for 1 (Economically Disadvantaged Students). We met growth in this area. 

•  Highest elementary and middle school grade in the county. 
• Top performing K-8 school in the Western Region. 
•  Top performing charter school in the Western Region. 
• Top 20 in the state for K-8 schools. 
• Top 40 in the state for charter schools.

- Mr. Dennis was nominated and received an award for Outstanding Educators in NC. There were over 500 nominees. 

Personnel Report 

● 2 Resignations 

○ EC 1:1 Assistant 

○ After-School Director 

● Open Positions 

○ Speech Therapist--Currently Filled with an Interim 

○ Bus Drivers 

○ Night Shift Custodian 

○ After-School Director

October 16 for next meeting