Welcome and Call to Order

The meeting will be called to the order at 6:42 pm by Ms. Karen Womack, Chair of the Board

Update the Agenda to include the Parent Survey and COVID-19 Update

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.

Meeting Minutes Approval

Approval of the January 14, 2021 Board Meeting Minutes

Monthly Financial Reports

Highlights

• Total Revenue is $695,477.60 - Reflected on the P&L
• Total Surplus $57,301.87 - Reflected on the P&L
• Total Cash is $332,924.25 - Reflected on the BS ( Operating Cash) 
• Total Long Term Liability $511,564.54 - Reflected on the B&S

$196,628.36 - From Building Hope  

$174,929.36 - From SLAM Foundation (Reclassified from RC Grant to Loan at year end) 

                            $3,254.45 – Teacher Retirement Payable 

                            $15,552 – Pension

                            $121,200 – PPP Loan

COVID-19 Discussion/Update

Parent Survey Results

Approve FY 21-22 Lottery Dates

Approve 2021-2022 School Calendar

Academica Update

Updates from the Education Service Provider

• Facilities Update

SLAM Foundation Update

Updates from the SLAM Foundation

Announcements

Upcoming school or Board events

Meeting adjourn

Meeting adjourned at 8:12 pm

Public Comment

Rob Lee - I have a couple of clarifying questions that I wanted to ask, what is the status and eligibility for the $1,000 bonus that Governor Kemp added to the C.A.R.E.S act Budget for educators;

Next years school calendar and schedule; this past year the breaks that we had in the prior year were taken away from us pretty much the time between Christmas and Spring break and I wanted to know if those would be restore this upcoming school year. Lastly are there any plans in place to assist employee's with COVID vaccinations?

Tatiana Scott - my concerns are around school capacity and how do we handle when there is a shift in the in person attendance numbers?

Class size - initially our classes were capped at 15 students in person now the numbers are increasing in my class and the initial procedure is not being taken into consideration.

@Karen Womack What is 50%of our current enrollment be? 6 students

@Pardes Sulaiman Initially the policy was set based off of the enrollment in August.

Superintendent's Update

SLAM Atlanta has 3 findings during the SCSC annual visit

Finding 1 - Inventory Management - Grant ID numbers, Vendor purchases were made from. All fields must be completed.

Finding 2 - Student Enrollment Document -We require SSN and that cannot be a requirement. We must remove the SSN as a. requirement.

Finding 3 - Bullying Policy - Our policy says that there is a 10-day suspension when bullying is confirmed. The State says that. we Cannot have More than 5 day suspension for elementary students.

Financial - Debt to income - we received partial points for this. We were at at 5.1 and we need to be under 5.0.

Out of the 100 points that we could receive SLAM received 80%.

Operational Performance - Partial points received because we failed to comply with LUA (Local Unit of Administration for Financial Accounting.

School Environment - Student and Employee Health received partial points

SLAM is undergoing Accreditation process - we received an amazing report as it applies to accreditation. There were 3 areas that we need to work on. Our current accreditation has been extended for a year.

Congratulations to Ms. Flowers for being accepted into the Doral. Leadership Academy. I am on the Board of DLA and I saw. some very qualified leaders who are still teaching and are qualified to lead. I want to ask the Board blessing to see if I can continue to have these conversations and fill these people out to see where they are and how we can utilize this talent to hep us grow moving forward.

School Leader Report

I would like to congratulate Ms. Flowers on a well deserved position with the Doral Leadership Academy. She is a big asset in the Operations and Academics here at SLAM Atlanta. We had 1 confirmed COVID-19 case that happened during the two week transition. There was no exposure to students or staff.

Our counselor resigned her position. I wish her well in her future endeavors. We. have interview two potential replacement candidates.

Intent return forms have been sent. I will meet with each individual staff member over the next few weeks. All teaching positions have been posted for next year.

School Culture - Shout out to Ms. Torrence. February will be a fun month. Ms. Torrence created a character trait with color associated for each week and students will be allowed to dress in a specific color to represent a specific character trait.

@Karen Womack I would like to schedule a deep dive or strategic meeting to go over data. When Alex, Kelly and Ms. Flowers are available. @Pardes Sulaiman the reading scores really concern me

@Kelly Pierce - some of this is a result of not being exposed to al the grade level information yet. There are a number of scholars that are doing worse than others.

@Alex Tamargo - during the SLAM Summit we are going to take a deep dive into each schools data. We will compare SLAM Atlanta against all other network schools.

@Pardes Sulaiman - Most of these students are probably teetering on borderline, etc. and we need to know exactly who t hey are and what we need to do about getting the. where they need to be.