Lake George Charter School
Minutes
May 20, 2025 Board Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday May 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Topic: LGCS Board Meeting
Time: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
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Meeting ID: 702 329 3608
Directors Present
A. Redd, F. Zuercher, J. Beall, J. Gilley, K. Rix
Directors Absent
None
Ex Officio Members Present
S. Bissue
Non Voting Members Present
S. Bissue
Guests Present
E. Pressel, H. Olivares, L. Meyer
I. Board Work Session 4:30 PM
A.
Work Session
II. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance and Guests
C.
Pledge of Allegiance
D.
Approve Agenda
E.
Approve previous meeting minutes - April 15, 2025
F.
Approve previous Board Minutes - April 15, 2025
G.
Personnel Changes
New Hires:
Lizzie Pressel Admin Para/Health Aid/Board Secretary.
Retirements and Resignations:
Tonia Montgomery, Kris Snare, Kathy Dixon, Venus Nutter, Nancy Cox, Caren White
Changes:
Amanda Hurley Moving from Para to Second Grade Teacher, George Hunt Moving from Library/Sped Para to Elementary P.E., Elementary Para/VV and Secondary Support, Mary Doty Moving from Second Grade Teacher to K-12 Math Intervention, Kelley Hunt Moving from Second Grade Teacher to K-12 ELA Intervention, Megan Wingert adding Librarian, Lizzie Pressel moving from substitute Elementary Secretary to Admin Para/Health Aid/Board Secretary.
Open Positions:
Elementary Secretary, Kitchen assistant manager, Secondary Core Teacher, Secondary Sped Teacher, 3rd Grade Teacher, Counselor.
III. Administration Reports
A.
Administrator's Report
Admin report was handed out with packet.
Invited Board members to HS Graduation.
Secondary went to community park and cleaned it up and over the weekend some students and staff finished cleaning up.
District rolling out new reporting Infinite Campus
wanting secondary students participate in board meeting.
teacher reps to speak after admin report.
B.
Teacher Rep
Teacher Rep: Lizzie Meyer
Increases in elective opportunities.
Morning Meetings, Guitar, Monthly New Letters, Baking, Future City Competitions, Speeches, Mindfulness, Zoology and Career Fair Attended.
STUCO Events: Trick or Treat, Bingo, Parade of Lights, Art/Book Fair, Prom (Majority of HS attended), Sold out full house play, Service day at the park, Graduation coming up, Field day, Canada Trip coming up (raised over $5,000), AP Exam (Results 7/7/25), and four graduating seniors.
All classes have growth in MAPs testing (reading, math and science)
Discussed pay scales, Staffing plans, Positions, Expansion and Development.
C.
Preschool Director's Update
Graduation was previous night.
IV. Committee Reports
A.
Lions Pride
General account Balance $24,187
Playground Account Balance $10,638
Raffle Account Balance $2,400
Very Successful Year
Staff Application was Successful
Snack During CMAS Were Fantastic
Helped with Funds for Cave of the Winds
Provided Funds for Kona Ice for the entire school
Providing Food Truck For secondary field day.
Survey Went out on Monday 5/19/25 for Communication to build membership 14 responded
Play Dates with Lions Pride to Build Reputation to get volunteers
Carnival is high priority
B.
BAC
End of year wrap up, done for the year and will start up in September.
Accomplishes what they needed to.
Will work on different sections this summer to match up with current strategic plan.
C.
Policy Committee
E-mail meetings for May and one more the end of June for August.
Going to go through different policy sections and compare to other school districts to see what policies we need and don't need.
Right now we are only in G.
Try to have 2-4 Policies to approve every month.
D.
Finance-Approve 25/26 Budget
E.
Security & Facility
Put in a grant for Safer Grant last Tuesday. It a $130,000 Grant. Putting in another $100,000 Grant for a Vestibule to keep the students, staff and community safer.
Working on the EOP and got it down from 85 pages to 45 pages and will go over with staff when school is back in session.
Did a really intense lock down this week with Fire and Law Enforcement onsite. School did a great job. Really good feed back for admin and everybody that went through it. The High School students were in lock down in their area for 20 minutes. Got good feed back on what they need to do.
Teller County PD wants to do training over the summer in our building.
F.
Development/Expansion Committee
Asked committee member to go over contact to see who's supposed to do what to make sure we are where we want to be.
Was supposed to meet one last time but were unable to.
Lease is getting looked at.
Got the statement from out attorney who looked at the building contract of the building. Confirmed that we needed to figure out the building.
Will be keeping in communication with Bryce.
Was supposed to have inspection but hasn't happened yet.
V. Public Comments
A.
Comments
April Patton- Revived multiple phone calls on new students and two former students coming back due to admin doing a great job. Another 9th grader interested in coming back. The community has heard great things about our school.
Michelle Normandin- Wanted to discuss the water situation.
Team advised they are working on it and looking into what can work for the future.
Pump was lowered our 100 feet and it has been working.
VI. Old Business
A.
Policy - Second Reading
GDQB Rev.2 Resignation of support staff
GDQD Rev.2 Discipline Suspension and Dismissal of Staff
BB Rev.3 Annual Budget
VII. New Business
A.
Policy - First read of the policies listed below.
GD-R Rec.3 Support Staff Positions
IA Instructional Goals Learning Objectives
IB Rev.2 Academics Freedom
IC-ICA Rev.3 School Year Calendar Instructional Time
B.
Board Management Alternatives
Lizzie Pressel- Went over a few board management Software and the one I like is $1,00 a year.
Will go over the demo and decide if that's what I want to go with.
C.
Approve Staff Contracts Per List Provided
Approved Staff Contracts except for two names waiting on references.
VIII. Executive Session
A.
Enter into Executive Session
Personal- C.R.S. 24-6-402 (4) (f) and
Contracts- C.R.S. 24-6-402 (4) (e)
Invited in: Samantha Bissue and Heather Olivares
B.
Exit Executive Session
C.
Vote after Executive Session
IX. Closing Items
A.
June Work Session Items
Board will evaluate Samantha Bissue.
B.
Top 3 Communication Items
1. Congratulations to those retiring and those who are staying.
2. Having Families share their stories on social media.
3. Lion Pride Enrollment to help out.
C.
Tasks/Due Outs
Amanda Redd will send out form she has to Samantha Bissue and Board.
Discuss 24/25 Budget
Work on MOU for concurrent enrollment and contracts