Welcome and Call to Order

The meeting will be called to the order.

Approval of Agenda

So that there is agreement between board members on the agenda, and the amount of time spent on the meeting, the board shall vote to approve an agenda for the meeting. To the best of its ability, it will follow that agenda, and allow for the chair to move the board through the agenda as specified.

Approval of Minutes

Review and approval of prior meeting minutes.

Public Comment

Our Public Comment period is for members of the public to address the board. Each member of the public may sign up to comment at the meeting by requesting an opportunity to comment by email to the board chair or by sign-up prior to the welcome and call to order, and will be allotted two minutes. The board will listen, but may not directly respond to any comments. Our meetings are open to the public and public record. As such, if your comment is about a private matter, please contact the board via email, or speak to the board chair privately.

No public in attendance.

School Leader Report

The school leader reports on the status of the school.

Inspiration

• Maaz is a first grader in Ms. Barrett’s Maryland college room.
• Maaz wrote on his whiteboard, “I love you Ms. B.”
• Ms. Barrett shared this and it made her whole life!

It is approved to hold one board meeting for both campuses.

Resurgence Hall Primary Academy

• Phoenix 360 Wellness- Received grant for $150K
• Provide therapy to staff and families
• Vision: Strengthening capacity and resilience by equipping adults with healthy coping strategies that increase confidence and belief in one’s ability to tackle challenges and thrive in life.
• Partnering with the Wellness Spa, two therapists, nutritionist 
• Commitment of 1 year but hopefully it will be a sustained investment
• Last Friday the team was surveyed to finish this sentence starter.. “It is probably no way we could do this but it would be really nice to have…” The ideas that were stated were things we could do with the Phoenix 360 Wellness

Resurgence Hall Middle Academy

• Meeting with Gavin, who opened 2 LEA’s simultaneously- confirmed additional resources within this structure, tiered cost sharing as scaling vs. 50/50n split, default distribution for unrestricted grants policy
• Shared Leadership Staff & TRS Implications- Only 1 reporting employer per TRS, pension impact of split salary + benefits. What does it look like for our network office?
• Financial Implications and Planning- Shared financial policies, 1 or 2 501C3s, Learnings from other multi-LEAs
• Planning Year Grant- 150K Investment from RedifinED, Post 9.23 meeting to determine next steps for grant deposit
• Construction Update- Demo pre-funding for shed structure, surrounding properties exploration, State Farm Agency

Committee Reports

Academic / Recruitment- Review academic dashboard, which includes schoolwide enrollment, attendance averages, demographic data, RHCS entry year, attrition rate and reason for both students and staff, school climate indicators, parent engagement indicators, and staff engagement indicators. Enrollment FY22.

-TFA- No additional comments

-Enrollment Update

• Challenge due to COVID as parents who want a virtual option are withdrawing.
• Will stop on new enrollment.
• Currently we are unenrolled by 8 students
• Scholars that are out due to COVID are offered a-synchronous learning

-Attrition

• 16 scholars have withdrawn post first day of school

-Scholar Demographics

• Growing in diversity- first year for an increase in hispanic and caucasian students
• Send out update tomorrow to the board

-Loss of family members crisis plan

• Mrs. Barker reaches out
• Follows up with groceries
• Floral arrangement 
• Highly encourage families for counseling
• Connect w/Mr. Ellis to begin counseling services

Governance- Review board membership, board recruitment, board fundraising progress, and the review of policies that govern Resurgence Hall.

• Updated conflict of interest policy- scsc says the current conflicts of interest meets all concerns.
• Governance training information will be sent out soon.
• Ned, a doctor, expressed interest in joining the board. Natasha will follow up.

Finance- Presentation includes monthly financial presentation, balance sheet, budget vs. actuals, cash flow, income statement for July. Review of FY22 Balance Sheet.

• July and August
• Revenues $1.1M due to QB payments and COVID funds
• Expenses $807K
• Cash and Balance Sheet 2.6M
• Budget vs Current Forecast
• 64K decrease due to per people cost, construction cost, large tech purchases, timing of loan
• Projecting 2.8M cash balance in FY22
• 90/100 SCSC Financial Performance Points
• Audit will be shared out and presented during the October meeting.

Approval of Financials

Discussion and Vote RE: Financial Policies

• 2 Revisions in financial policy
• Additional language for credit and debit card usage for section 1.5
• Removal of language for telephone/cell phone reimbursement for section 1.8

Discussion and Vote RE: Payment Processing of Health Insurance

• New carrier Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield- monthly payment must be in auto draft 
• First two payments were authorized through the debit account
• Disagree with transferring the full-year amount
• Determine a fixed amount to be transferred every month into an account for an auto draft from a funded petty cash account
• Increase limit
• Temporarily authorize the deposit of 3 months and adjust the $500 threshold 
• Petty cash fund account shall have a maximum balance of 25,000
• Temporarily authorize this account to have a balance of 25,000 as the board works through the financial policies update

Executive Session

Discussion of Real Estate.

Executive Session

Discussion and Vote RE: TFA Contract

Chairman's Remarks

Last month, I had a great time during the retreat. It was really good to participate and fellowship outside of the general board meetings. Thank you Tori for the inspiration, I look forward to seeing that at every board meeting. As we move forward to being the top school in the country, I look forward to the endeavor.

Adjournment

End of meeting.

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:40 pm.