HOS presented her monthly report to the Board.
Flu season has hit staff and faculty pretty hard during February but all classes were covered with the cooperation of all Charter  staff.
Exhibition II takes place on 3/15/18 and both faculty and staff are gearing up for their presentations.

Building Safety: Review of safety protocols and lockdown procedures will take place  2/28/18 at weekly staff meeting.
Locking mechanisms on some doors have been upgraded and another lockdown drill has been scheduled for this week.
Grants: Grants have been won by the 4th & 5th grade math teachers and a grant was procured to have Los Sugar Kings perform at the school. Grants were also submitted to the FMPS for various enrichment and professional development needs.
Admissions: 177 applications were received for the 2018/19 school year;  4th-93, 5th-33, 6th-35,7th-1, and 8th-5.
The Lottery will take place at MCCPS at 9.30am on 2/28/18 
DESE has informed MCCPS that, due to an improvement in the Lynn and Salem District School systems, can no longer accept non-sibling applicants from those districts. This could have an adverse effect on recruitment for the 7th & 8th grades as well as the diversity of the student population.
Staffing: The search for an additional special educator is ongoing and a new substitute nurse has been identified.
HOS Goal Update: The Project Based Learning Workshop scheduled for 3/17/18 has been moved to 5/5/18.

After lively discussion, the Board decided that the mid-cycle review would be conducted by the Executive members of the Board as well as the Personnel Committee at their 3/5/18 meeting. Upon completion, the results will be compiled by Personnel Chair, Artie Sullivan  and shared with the entire Board of Trustees at the 3/27/18 Board Meeting, where upon the Board will vote on a motion to accept the recommendation.

After discussion, it was decided that the Personnel Committee should be charged with training/aiding the Board on the HOS evaluation process so that the Board will be up to speed for the year end evaluation.

Governance chair, Nichole Thompson, provided a brief update and presented Pam Ferris to the Board for membership of the Governance Committee.

Finance chair, Karl Smith, presented a brief update on financial projections for the next five years as well as a comparative analysis of the 2017/18 balance & P&L sheets.

Personnel chair, Artie Sullivan, presented an update of the committee's discussion on HOS evaluation as well as the progress of the HOS secession plan. It was noted that secession plans should also be set in place for the positions of Business Manager and Board Treasurer.

Academic Excellence committee chair, Sean Killeen presented the committee's job description to the Board. The committee's main goal is to insure that academic excellence is defined, and that the Board approves HOS annual goals. There will be a March meeting at a date yet to be determined.

Ellen Lodgen and Martin Trice presented an update on their committee's work.
The Winter on-line auction has 33 items to bid on valued at $24,000. To date, $2100 has been raised.
In conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce, a chowder festival will be held in the Spring.
The Annual Fund drive is going to target past donors.
An annonymous $1500 gift has been received.
 

Strategic Planning chair, Fred Ferris, presented an update to the Board. The draft agenda for the MCCPS Community Conversation to be held 3/21/18, 6-8pm was shared with the Board. It is hoped that the meeting will attract 50 to 100 participants, ideally from the community at large, rather than only parents. Strategic facilitator, Gary Bernstein, will be present to lead the evenings events.

There was no public comment.

Action Item: Personnel committee and executive members of the Board to conduct mid-cycle HOS evaluation.

The meeting was productive and stayed on topic, although a little more time than anticipated was spent on discussion of the HOS  mid-cycle evaluation.