Finance committee members viewed and commented on the BoardonTrack webinar and associated materials. All agreed they were helpful and informative.

The committee discussed only changing one part of the policy to tie the reimbursement amount to the in-state graduate per credit tuition rate instead of a specific dollar amount. Discussion then turned to enforcing the payback clause in the policy and the committee decided to table the policy to give admin time to further refine the policy in this regard.

Judi McGee will work with Members 1st to move this item forward.

Josef relayed the information he had collected on KAPCS. The committee did not feel it had enough information to warrant purchasing membership to this organization at this time.

Ryan confirmed that the account had been closed, all signatures and paperwork completed, and at the end of October, we would no longer receive statements for this account.

Jack Steiner presented an idea from the Wellness Committee relating to providing teachers with FitBits and students with pedometers to track their movement. The initiative would serve to boost morale and unity behind a common goal of fitness and wellness. Jack proposed that the Wellness committee would raise funds to purchase the pedometers ($5) for the children and proposed a matching credit by the school to assist teachers in purchasing FitBits (teachers pay $50, Vida pays $50). The Wellness committee will continue to develop the idea and the finance committee will continue to discuss the idea with a proposed start date of January 1. Judi suggested contacting the Adams County Community foundation and Robert C. Hoffman foundation as possible funding sources for this initiative

Members discussed a new format for the P&L statement. Ryan will tweak the new format slightly for next month.

Many of the tasks on our goals list will need to be delayed until the hiring of a business manager.

Cynthia discussed current progress on hiring a business and operations manager. The job description has been posted to many university/college MBA school career networks, indeed.com, and Vida's website. Several other suggestions were made to post the job advertisement. Several applications have already been received and will continue to be collected in the coming weeks.

Cynthia would like to restructure several proposed hires in the coming weeks. She would like to restructure the positions as following: Reading Specialist/ESL teacher, Math/Data Coach, Gifted/SSL teacher. Only the gifted/SSL teacher would be a new position and necessitate the creation and approval of a job description. Sufficient funding of around $40,000 is available for this newly proposed position. Additionally, the job descriptions of the reading specialist/ESL teacher and math/data coach will need to be revised and reapproved.

Lynn will call Ryan to discuss the need for implementation of any of the items listed.

Cynthia requested the finance committee begin keeping a printed binder containing all our agendas and minutes and any other pertinent information to be stored in the office for public access. Lynn will organize this item.

The committee discussed Charter Choice's recent decision to call in outstanding debts from our sending districts. Many districts were caught by surprise and/or the payment request and district payments crossed in the mail. Charter Choices will notify Vida if and when they make such requests in the future that are outside the normal routine.