DeKalb Preparatory Academy

Governing Board

Regular Meeting - Monday July 27th, 2020 @5:30 PM

Meeting Summary of Actions

Meeting Summary

The Governing Board met on Monday July 27th, 2020 @5:30 PM for what was scheduled to be a 2 hours and 13 minutes long meeting. Present: none Not Present: Janelle Wilhite, Chris Estes, Wanda McKay, Suzette Arnold, Tamara Gammon, Roberta Walker, Karen Shabazz, Marcus Vassell, Tamseel Syed

The members considered the following items:

  1. Welcome and Call to Order
  2. Approval of Agenda
  3. Head of School Report
  4. Report from Finance Committee
  5. Report from Academic Committee
  6. Report from Development
  7. Other Business
  8. Public Comment
  9. Executive Session
  10. Adjournment

The committee considered 8 motions, of which 8 passed, and 0 failed:

  1. Motion by Ms. Walker to purchase Superkids consummable materials for K-2 students for $6,677.61. Second by Mr. Vassell (passed)
  2. Motion by Ms. Walker to purchase Galopade a digitial social studies resource for grades K-8 for $9,137.05. Second by Mr. Vassell (passed)
  3. Motion by Ms. Walker to approve the purchase of software for no more than $10,000 to enable DPA's IT personnel to upload DPA curriculum to the cloud. Second by Mr. Vassell (passed)
  4. Motion by Ms. Walker to Amend the Motion for software purchase to the cost of $10,566. Second by Mr. Vassell (passed)
  5. Motion by Ms. Walker to move to executive session at 8:01pm (passed)
  6. Motion to move out of executive session at 8:28pm and return to regular session. (passed)
  7. Motion by Ms. Walker to approve contract of Cross & Dot for $6,500 for virtual training. (passed)
  8. Mr. Estes motions to adjourn meeting at 8:30pm. Second by Ms.Walker (passed)

    The meeting adjourned at 11:03PM