Stargate School
Minutes
Governance Board Business Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday September 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Location
All meetings will be virtual unless otherwise noted.
Zoom Info: Join Zoom Meeting
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Directors Present
B. Paul (remote), J. Painz (remote), K. Lindgren (remote), L. Challa (remote), L. Paquette (remote), L. Steele (remote), S. Howorko (remote)
Directors Absent
H. Sonnenahalli
Guests Present
Kendra Gorge (remote), M. Anderson (remote), Molly Stroup (remote), R. Greene (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Roll Call
C.
Reading of Stargate Mission
D.
Recognitions and Appreciations
II. Approve Consent Agenda Items
A.
Approve Consent Agenda
B.
Minutes from Governance Board Meeting August 25, 2025
III. School Operations
A.
Finance & Construction Project Update
Presentation by Kendra George (KG) and Lynne Whitney (LW)
Q: LP - has construction been disruptive to classroom work? It has created some challenges in a K classroom, and they are working through it.
B.
Marketing for Admissions & Enrollment
Presentation by Kelli and Molly Stroup. Numbers look better this year even though declining enrollment.
C.
IT Discussion on Board Emails
Presentation by Richard Raehal: We will have the distribution lists updated to ensure that everyone is correctly on it. Discussion between Board and RR.
D.
Executive Director Academics Report
Presentation by Robin Greene specifically on the SPF. RG discusses Growth metrics are against other students vs the students themselves. Focusing our PLCs on data.
IV. Public Comment
A.
Public Comment
Therese Morin - Student barriers to SG, When we are talking about recruiting students from other areas and other backgrounds. Ticket out of it was her education and her brain. While we have language barriers, the bigger issue will be transportation. We need to increase accessibility to transportation.
B.
Public Comment Response
No response.
V. Committee Reports
A.
Written Committee Reports *Please post committee goals and signed Handbooks in Committees folder*
B.
Recruiting Committee Update
DF reviews the report. We should be putting something in ES folder.
C.
Elections Committee Update
TT discusses report. SimplyVoting has been hard to get ahold of and provide inconsistent responses.
SH wants the Election Committee to look into other platforms for future elections. Conferences would be great way to get folks to submit their confirmation that they voted. Are there any social media posts on the election?
Board shares different ideas to get the word out.
D.
SAC Committee Update
Lucas Banta discusses SAC committee update.
VI. Action Items (Discuss & Vote)
A.
FAC Safety and Security Funding
Request from Robin for matching the funding that we received for Safety. This gets it all in at one time, the total cost is anticipated for $375K, does match the funding for the grant we received.
Should we have any concerns about not being able to address other request? We have about 259K in there.
B.
MLO District Communications
RG shared information on the MLO District Communications.
- Samantha & Lindsey
C.
Strategic Planning Session Agenda
No action needed, started to populate the pre-read in the document. Review document when its finalized.
VII. Future Planning
A.
Next Board Meeting Agenda and Board Packet
2 meetings, exec session and then regular. Add Stacy for the next meeting, Dave for the following month. Elections committee, no recruiting.
October 8 meeting at 5pm for our team.
B.
Next Admin Sync Meeting
October 6, LP and LS attend at 830am
C.
Upcoming Events
Promoting the bylaws!
Gala!
RG - 75% of total class has a 3.75 GPA, big deal! Ms. Dunn has students working on cybersecurity with the FBI. We are number 1 in the 51-100 student group.
LC - Attended High School Fall Academic Awards, It's great to see that we are recognizing the hard work and dedication of students. These annual academic awards ceremonies not only celebrate achievement but also motivate students to strive for excellence. I would like to Thank Mr. Cable and Logan along with all staff members (Busse, Spears, Janociak, Siles, Mansure, and Allen)
BP - Danielle for the work that she has done recruiting. we have 6 parents running for one seat.
LP - Robin for the Visionary Award.