There was one member of the community on the telephone conference line.

M. Ramasamy read the Mission Statement.

M. Dixon discussed the length of the last two meetings with the goal of getting out of the meetings earlier.
-If  a Committee Chair receives an agenda and notes that he or she does not have enough time on the agenda, that needs to be communicated ahead of time.
-Anything needing more discussion should go back to committee.
-At the present time, it is not necessary to use a timer or parliamentarian.

No members of the community made a comment.

A. Pieper gave the Directors Report.

Educational Excellence and Student Information:

Waiting List update: One student is known to be leaving in December. Last month, two sixth graders were added.
Admissions update: Both open houses were held. Tuesday tours have been very well attended. The group test deadline has been extended to the 16th of December in order to allow the diversity committee to run an event at the Beatties Ford Library.
Technology: Working on new policy and procedures to reduce loss/theft of equipment to be voted on at the January Board meeting so that 8th Graders can be given 1:1 use of Chromebooks.

Teachers and Staff:

All staff required to make goals toward professional development for gifted standards.
Hiring Committee has interviewed some teacher candidates for the 2020-2021 School Year.
CMPD traffic control - There is an officer in place for pickup/dropoff carpool traffic control. There has been no word so far regarding the grant for which the school applied to offset the cost of hiring the resource officer.

Expansion and Finance:

The Expansion Committee is exploring the big picture of what expansion will look like.
Turf repair - the original quote was too high. The school will give the  contract to another company that gave a lower estimate. There is no need to vote on it because it is in the budget.
Copier contract - changing to new contract will allow staff to make unlimited copies. The proposed contract will fit within the budget. The Board will discuss the new contract in closed session and vote, if needed, in open session.

Governance, Diversity, and Policy:

The Board will discuss Strategic Plan in the Governance section
AIG policy amendment will be discussed in policy section
Naming Policy will not be discussed tonight, but the policy committee will work on a plan to update the naming policy in light of expansion.

A. Gozycki gave the Governance update.

The Governance Committee is tasked with reviewing the 2016-2020 Strategic Plan which is phasing out. Much of what was in the plan has been implemented. The outcome of the Plan will be shared with the community at a later date. The Committee has discussed what the committee has learned about how to best delegate goals and actions on the 2021-2025 strategic plan in order to increase the likelihood of full implementation of each goal.

In creating a new Strategic Plan, the committee plans to communicate the status of the goals and subgoals to the school community and will seek input from the community.

S. Liner reported. There will be a 360 degree evaluation of the Executive Director in January. The Board and Staff will fill out surveys.

S. Korrapati gave the update. The committee is continuing to visit sites and have met with lenders about financing to review different options available. Contract updates will be discussed in closed session.

A. Pieper discussed student and staff projections. In order to accommodate the number of students and staff planned in expansion, the new or renovated building would have to be a minimum of 75,000 square feet.

S. Korrapati reported. There have been roadblocks with the vendors and are still waiting on the contracts.

M. Mittal received documents today regarding the refinance. Will be discussed in closed session.

A. Farooqi gave the development update. As of today, the ACGC pledged gifts are significantly ahead of last year this time.

Development members had a session with the PTO to bring awareness to the ACGC and to recruit volunteers to be ambassadors.

Sealed Air has confirmed that they will sponsor the Science Fair.

There will be a founder plaque presented for the Selembo Foundation.

Volunteer database: A. Farooqi is working with a parent who is a programmer to fix the problems with the database.

 

S. Schroeck gave an update on the 20 in 2020 event. There are five sponsor companies for the event to date.

S. Dasu gave the diversity update. There will be a recruitment event at the Beatties Ford library December 7, 9:00-11:30 AM. There have been three zip codes identified as targets for recruitment.  The Diversity Committee recommends to have Transportation and After-Care funding to be included as priorities for next year's budget.

M. Ramasamy gave the Foundation report. The Board will discuss in closed session an update on the budget amount for legal council.

There were no comments from members of the community.

S. Korrapati made a motion to convene in Closed Session pursuant to "Permitted Purposes" under N.C.G.S. §143-318.11: (a) To prevent the disclosure of privileged or confidential information; (e) To discuss contract negotiations. M. Ramasamy seconded.

The Board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.