Lake George Charter School
Minutes
September Board Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday September 17, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Topic: LGCS Board Meeting
Time: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 @ 5:00 pm
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Meeting ID: 702 329 3608
Directors Present
A. Redd, D. Bretag, F. Zuercher, J. Beall, J. Gilley
Directors Absent
None
Ex Officio Members Present
S. Bissue
Non Voting Members Present
S. Bissue
Guests Present
A. Patton, H. Olivares
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 - August 2024
F.
Approve minutes from Special Board meeting on 9/9/2024
G.
Personnel Changes
III. Administration Reports
A.
Administrator's Report
See attached.
B.
Preschool Director's Update
We passed licensing and inspections with no violations.
Licensing is coming back so we can get gym and lunch room approved for preschoolers to be in.
C.
IT Update
N/A
IV. StuCo Update
A.
Isaac Davis - StuCo President
The new classes of Speech & Debate and Health are getting good reviews from students. StuCo will be helping with Halloween Carnival this year. We will also be doing a Trunk Or Treat serving New York style pizza. This will be held in the school parking lot.
V. Committee Reports
A.
Lions Pride
StuCo is a second hand arm of the PTO. They will be helping with fund raising all year.
Disc golf is going great.
Getting back to the grind and going with the Carnival.
Chili Cook Off coming soon along with BINGO.
We need to restock stuff for BINGO and Winter Gift Shoppe.
Penny Wars coming soon to help with transportation for field trips.
B.
BAC
- We got 1 new member - Katrina Hallam
- We talked about our mission and vision - we want to add the word "Integrity"
- Survey coming in October
- Working on Strategic Plan
- UPI
- Next meeting on October 8th
C.
Policy Committee
- Going through Section G - this will take most of the year
D.
Finance-Approve financials for End of Year and paid bills.
E.
Security & Facility
Facility -
- Emergency lights - need batteries
- everyone has radios now
- HVAC system now works in admin area
- Looking to get some items donated from the ReUse store in Denver - they will deliver
- LG Fire doing training here at school after hours.
Security -
- Christy is popping into classes and making connections with students
- Teaching SRP - Standard Response Protocol
- She is making connections at lockers, on the playground, in the pick-up line
F.
Development Committee
We are meeting next week for the first time as a joint committee with Expansion Committee.
- Did meet up with grant writer - she has lots of experience with charter schools.
- Talked about a couple of grants that we want to start off with.
G.
Expansion
We participated in 9th meeting. Agenda will come out after meeting in exec session tonight.
VI. Board Communications
A.
Comments
N/A
VII. Public Comments
A.
Comments
N/A
VIII. Old Business
A.
Policy - Second Reading
GCHA/GCHB Rev. 2 - Mentor Teachers/Administrators
GCI Rev. 2 - Professional Staff Development
GCID Rev. 2 - Professional Staff Training, Workshops, and Conferences
GCKA Rev. 2 - Instructional Staff Assignments and Transfers
GCKAA - Teacher Displacement
GCGC Rev. - Job Share Policy
IX. New Business
A.
Policy - First read of the policies listed below.
GCOA Rev.2 - Evaluation of Instructional Staff - Waived 2.docx
GCOA-R Rev 2 - Professional Staff Training, Workshops, and Conferences - Waived 2.docx
GCL Rev.2 - Professional Staff Schedules and Calendars 2.docx
GCKAA - R - Teacher Displacement.docx
X. Executive Session
A.
Enter into Executive Session
B.
Exit Executive Session
C.
Vote after Executive Session
XI. Closing Items
A.
October Work Session Items
Review 1st Quarter Financials & Teachers Rep can "present" during the work session versus waiting till further in the meeting.
B.
Top 3 Communication Items
1. Update on academics for secondary are strong
2. StuCo presenting @ the Board meetings
3. Halloween Carnival & Committees
4. Town Hall
N/A