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.

Public Comment

There were no members from the public present.

Public Comment Policy Update

Add language that says "the Board has a 5-7 days" to respond to Public concerns.

Welcome and Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 6:33 PM by Chairperson Karen Womack

Meeting minutes from the October 3rd Board Meeting

Monthly Financial Reports - Ana Martinez

• Total Revenue is $289,708.09 - Reflected on the P&L
• Total Surplus $15,651.39 - Reflected on the P&L
• Total Cash is $64,941.26 - Reflected on the BS
• Total Long Term Liability $317,442.68- From Building Hope - Reflected on the BS

SLAM Bylaws Update

SLAM Atlanta Financial Health - Alina Chester

The budgeted funding is based on 102 students, which was the enrollment on the date certain for funding. The latest QBE report from the state is based on 90 students so we are still waiting for our funding to be updated to the date certain enrollment. This would be a difference of $149,000 so hopefully we start seeing that revenue soon.

There was some staff turnover, but in speaking with Gerda she is replacing those staff with budget-neutral replacements or savings.

Currently the budget is projecting a cash surplus of $97,243 in operating, given that we are able to use all of our grants to their full extent.

Succession Plan Discussion - Pardes Sulaiman

New Board Member Nominee's discussion

Pardes will request that Genny Castillo to come and visit one of the SLAM Board meetings to see if she might be interested in considering joining the Board.

Academica Update

Updates from the Employer Service Provider

SLAM Foundation Update

Alex Tamargo updated the team. The Foundation will visit SLAM Atlanta next Tuesday and Wednesday. The Foundation has been in constant contact with the School. Mr. Robinson has been sending data to Lourdes and Alex. More feedback will be available after the visit.

Executive Session

Reconvene the open meeting

Announcements

CCRPI Scores - Gerda Louizi

Ms. Louizi logged into the GADOE website and shared the CCRPI scores for SLAM Atlanta with the Board.

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:27 pm

School Leader Report

USA Test Prep reduction in reading , 12% increase in math, 3rd grade reading 10% increase, Math 9% increase.

We need to celebrate having great progress in each of the academic areas.

Continuing instructional monitoring, met with the SLAM Teams and they made some recommendations.

We now have a full time counselor on site everyday.

@Karen Womack was is the process that the parents have to go through to see their students during the class day? @Gerda Louizi, they need to notify the school prior to ensure that they do not come during testing, if they are volunteering they need to do the mandated sexual abuse training, mandated reporter training and sex trafficking. @Kelly Pierce, we need to note that it is now a requirement that parents have to do the mandated reporting training, sexual abuse training and sex trafficking class that cost $15.00. @Altreneasha Ervin wants to ensure that we define the requirements between volunteering and visiting their child's teacher. @Ms Louizi stated that there is a list that the SCSC has provided to show what charges are dismissable on background screening reports.

GA State came on yesterday and did the Human Trafficking training.

Enrollment updates; we are now down to 98 students. The Board wants to know why such a drastic drop in enrollment.

We had a student who needed to be in a resource class all day and his IEP was changed to General Education all day because we could not serve this student. The Board Chair, Karen Womack wanted to know why and how the IEP was changed that would cause such a direct change in the services that the student would receive. This student has since withdrawn from SLAM. Ms. Louizi believes that it was a good thing that the student withdrew because he was not receiving the services that he needed and also because he was a source of a lot of behavior problems with the school. The general consensus of the Board is that the parents of this student should be contacted and invited to come back to SLAM.

@Karen Womack Do we have a SST Team and positive based incentives that will help to encourage the students to do better. The Fit Rally is another reward system that we use to reward.

@Karen Womack out of the 14 students that have left this year what is the common denominator? @Gerda Louizi said Transportation has been the common denominator. A biweekly newsletter is sent out to our parents to keep them informed in an effort to communicate effectively.