Welcome and Call to Order

The meeting will be called to the order at 6:30 pm, beginning with the pledge of allegiance by Board Chair Karen Womack.

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

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, 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.

Academica Update

Financial Update

Year ended June 30, 2018 Ended the school year of net asset balance of $58,000. Received notification of the awarded CSP grants.

FY2018-2019 We were able to receive the grant of $75,000 from the Planning Grant. Grant from Foundation

Financials 2018-2019 - Funding of 93,000 and 30,000 Grant from the SLAM Foundation. Net asset balance of positive $32,000.

School Insurance Update - All school insurance is in place and effective as of August 1, 2018

Facilities/Construction Update - All the construction is complete. The team is finishing up by putting on the pull bars in each bathroom. The electrical and HVAC inspectors have signed off and we are waiting on the sign off from the GC inspector so that the ceiling tiles can be put back in place. We are now waiting on delivery of the doors. Once doors are received, they will be installed and the county will be contacted for a inspection for the COO. Doors will be finished and door frames painted by GC.

Proposed move in Date the proposed move in date is August 30, 2018. Hopefully there will not be any delays so that we can meet this target date.

Lilly Salazar visit - Special Education Update - Discussed the IDEA budget. Angelia is trying to find out who our IDEA person is. Para needed, SLP needed, Speech Pathtologist. Not certain that we will get a huge amount of IDEA funds. Sonya has been working on gaining access to the State's IEP system. She was able to gain access today. Gave Sonya Excel Spreadsheets that are used at other schools to keep up with who is receiving services. For those students who don't have copies of the IEP forms, recommended that we contact the 3 Elementary schools and requests student records through the enrollment paperwork. Contacted Endo Professional, the company that we will hire to provide speech pathology. We need the Para as quickly as possible in order to meet compliance for services and class size. We do not have any current 504's at this time. MTS RTI process was discussed. We have one student that is in desperate need for services. I sent Dr White Ms.Jones schedule and sat down and went over my findings and why the schedule is the way that it is. Also, talked to him about hiring a Para Professional and what the potential schedule would be for them. I will be back for a visit next week to wrap up the budgets and work on the RAMP with Angelia. Following up on intervention services for Tier 2 and Tier 3. @William Greene in proportion to the number of students enrolled is how is the number of students we are serving proportional to that number? Lilli thinks that we are probably missing IEP's for students that haven't brought them to our attention.

@Eboni Chillis the one student that will require a Para. How long have we known this? Lili responded that she just found out on Monday when she reviewed all of the IEP's. Dr. White said that the school received the paperwork on Friday, the week prior to Lili's visit. The schools that we have visited are refusing to give us IEP's in person. They say that they are going to mail the information.

@William Greene informed Dr. White that he should ask the parents to go to the schools and ask for the paperwork themselves. They can obtain the documentation when we cannot.

RFQ - ACD was the only company who responded to the RFQ. Their proposal is on the Agenda for a Board vote tonight

Approval of the following Meeting Minutes: 5/17/18, 5/24/18 and 7/19/18

5/17/18 - Board Meeting Minutes

5/24/18 - Board Meeting Minutes

7/19/18 - Board Meeting Minutes

Building Hope Loan

Facility RFQ Update

ACD was the only company who responded to the RFQ.

SLAM Foundation Update

The SLAM Foundation is providing a $10,000 grant to SLAM Academy of Atlanta to help offset the cost for the Culture Clubs. The grant will cover the period from August - December.

SCSC Monitoring Visit

The SCSC has informed Dr. White that they will be coming to SLAM to conduct a Monitoring Site Visit. There was a document attached that explained what documentation would be required to be uploaded on August 22, 2018 prior to the date of the visit Thursday, September 13, 2013.

Amend the Agenda to approve all the policies in one slate with one vote

Discuss and Approve the setting up of new Bank Accounts and the status of the Citizens Trust Bank Account

To add additional policies that were left off the Agenda but included in the Board Packet

Executive Session

Motion to come out of Executive Session

Approve New Operating Budget

Board Meeting Calendar

Set the Board Calendar for the rest of the year

Announcements

Ajournment

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 4:29 pm