Community Regional Charter School
Minutes
Business Meeting of the CRCS Board
Date and Time
Monday February 20, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Location
48 South Factory Street
Skowhegan, ME 04976
Members of the public are welcome to attend and observe these meetings but must be aware that although the meeting is held in public it is not a public meeting and therefore observers are not permitted to speak during the meeting itself, except during public comment.
Directors Present
D. Denis (remote), N. Reinholt (remote), T. Arnold (remote), T. Overall (remote)
Directors Absent
C. Hansen, K. LaCasse, S. Noonkester
Ex Officio Members Present
A. Savage (remote), T. Works
Non Voting Members Present
A. Savage (remote), T. Works
Guests Present
J. Alves (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Executive Director Reports
A.
Resignations
B.
New Hires
No new hires
C.
Community Events
No upcoming community events
D.
Strategic Design Meeting Follow up
E.
Enrollment
F.
Leadership Agenda Notes
* Lot of discussions around performance report/measures and specifically learner growth
- One of the large pieces of data that we are looking at are individual learner growth overtime and we are finding that while some learners might not be making Fall-Spring data they are making growth overtime (2-3 years at CRCS) and moving up achievement bands
* Meeting with the Charter Commission in March to share our results and make a case to them to try and revise the Performance Measures to include more longitudinal data instead of just Fall-Spring
G.
Vote to modify school calendar
III. Other Communications
A.
Epicenter Training
Danielle followed up and shared what modules board members need to complete. In the agenda there is a document to share what modules each board member are required to complete.
Danielle also shared where to find those modules in Epicenter.
IV. Finance & Facilities
A.
Approve monthly financial performance measures
B.
Budget workshop
Workshop session on March 6, 13, @ 5:30 pm and one other date to spend time on each of these three big areas:
- PreK Expansion
- Long-term facilities planning
- Salaries
Hope to wrap up budget in May to vote on before June 30.
C.
PreK Expansion Grant
We have been awarded a grant from Maine Department of Education which could give us the ability to add 16 learners to PreK and $140,000 for startup. Going through info gathering stage to determine system impact and where to place those learners using the additional leveraged funds. Leaning towards adding a portable at Dimensions, will have more information at coming meetings.
V. Governance Committee
A.
Governance Committee Minutes
Should be amended to read:
Board adopted GCOC, BEDH, and ADC policies at the January board meeting. Ashlee will now upload these policies to Board OnTrack. Remove ADC.
Board did first read of policies BEB and DN. BEB and DN will move forward for 2nd read and adoption at February board meeting. Should be ADC and DN.
Board did first read of policies BE, BBB, BDE, BEC-E, BEC, BEDA, BEDC, BEDG, BGF, CM, and DD for elimination. These policies will move forward for 2nd read and vote for elimination at the February board meeting. BE should be struck - it didn't make it onto the January Business meeting of the Board. This will be added to the March agenda for first read for elimination.
B.
Second read for elimination
C.
Second reading of:
VI. Executive Committee
A.
Executive Director Contract
It's harder and harder to recruit educators and we want to be competitive and strategic in all parts of the process including timing. We have to position ourselves for whatever comes our way.
No new resignations