Community Regional Charter School
Minutes
Business Meeting of the CRCS Board
Date and Time
Monday March 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), S. Noonkester (remote), T. Arnold (remote), T. Overall (remote)
Directors Absent
C. Hansen, K. LaCasse
Ex Officio Members Present
A. Savage, T. Works
Non Voting Members Present
A. Savage, T. Works
Guests Present
C. Priest (remote), E. Firnkes (remote), J. Alves (remote), Kit Canning (remote), S. Muzzy (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
Jenna Murray joined the business office as a payroll and benefits specialist.
C.
Community Events
D.
Strategic Design Meeting Follow up
During our monthly CRCS leadership meeting we took some time to watch and talk about the video of Pender talking to the Charter Commission as well as took some time to share out physical pieces of evidence from how we are implementing our guiding principles. We will collect all of those and compile them into a Google Drive for everyone to access.
E.
Enrollment
As of today:
31 learners today and 40 PreK enrolled for next school year already
170 learners at OA right now and also have some learners moving from DA to OA next year
140 learners at DA right now but have all learners moving up from CCA to put us around 160 for next year as of right now
F.
Leadership Agenda Notes
G.
NWEA and PD
MTSS conference: Board voted to move the workshop day from Monday the 13th to Friday the 10th so group could attend. Big take away from PD is kids are always moving around within the system and it is a cycle between Tier I, II, and III. Group that attending is meeting regularly to check and adjust and put some of the ideas into place already. Got a good data inventory tool that as already begun to be implemented.
Goal setting: 1) create the MTSS team. 2) triangulate the data 3) Tier I instruction
NWEA: Susan shared out an overview of what was shared with the Charter Commission Performance Committee. Shared out NWEA data and compared the data to last year, importance of longitudinal data, as well as attendance and chronic absenteeism.
Next step: problem solve an easier way to get a comparison between first testing score and most recent testing score
III. Other Communications
A.
Mid Year MCSC Check-In
Danielle recapped a bit more of the mid year check-in meeting that happened with Lana and Amy and included Danielle, Nicki, Travis, Susan, and Elizabeth.
Travis will reach out to Lana to make sure we are in compliance with our conditions of renewal and meetings we are supposed to have.
IV. Finance & Facilities
A.
Read minutes from 3/13/23 Finance & Facilities Committee into record
B.
Approve monthly financial performance measures
C.
PreK Expansion Grant
Travis gave an overview of the new PreK Expansion Grant that we applied for and won. Will be able to have a total of 48 PreK learners for the 23-24 school year.
Will use the grant to renovate and retrofit CCA to create a 3rd classroom to accommodate the increased number of learners.
D.
Approve lease for vehicle and property storage at 89 Stewart Hill
V. Governance Committee
A.
Governance Committee Minutes
B.
First Reading for Elimination
C.
First Reading for Adoption
D.
First reading and update to be in compliance with legal changes that took effect 2021-2022:
VI. Executive Committee
A.
Executive Director Contract
Danielle and Travis will meet to work on a more comprehensive ED contract.
Mary Burris has resigned from the business office.