The Main Street Academy

Governing Board

Regular Meeting - Tuesday October 29th, 2019 @7:00 PM

Meeting Agenda

Welcome and Call to Order 1 minutes

The meeting will be called to the order by the Board Chair.

Public Comment 10 minutes

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.

Approval of Agenda 5 minutes

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.

Actions:

  1. Approve the agenda as submitted

Approval of Minutes 15 minutes

Actions:

  1. Approve the minutes for the following meetings: September 17, 2019, September 21, 2019, October 5, 2019, and October 9, 2019.

President’s Report 15 minutes

Discussion and Review of 2019 Charter School Annual Report (Board Chair Report ) - VOTING ITEM

Actions:

  1. To approve and authorize the submittal of the 2019 Charter School Annual Report (Board Chair Report) to the State Department of Education.

Principal Report 15 minutes

Discussion and Review of 2019 Charter School Annual Report (Management Report) - VOTING ITEM


Monthly Report (attached) - iReady diagnostics reading and math


Actions:

  1. To approve and authorize the submittal of the 2019 Charter School Annual Report (Management Report) to the State Department of Education.

Attachments

Faculty Report 10 minutes

This report comes from the staff elected faculty member to the board.


Update from the Board and management on staff holiday planning.


Communications Report 20 minutes

1.Uniform Updates

Refreshed New Logo and legibility on uniforms 

Fulton County Public Schools no longer on logo, editing issues with vendors 


2. Mascot 

1st mascot winner- not fully integrating and merging changes into final design due to production complexities.

Propose to move to second designer per voting results.


3.TMSA Website  and Donation Portal

a. There are issues with Edilio and Website firewall issues; Website functionality and capacity is not fully built out properly, Appears that old website migration was just put on a new platform 


c. “SUPPORT US” Tab:

Edilio versus 4agoodcause (donation portal vendor) 

i. 4agoodcaus ($8,000 Annually Estimate- $7,099 Annually) $49 , $.49 per transaction; 40/month, FY2020 Flat Rate- 1000 Transactions $609; 


My School Bucks Donation portal will not support the giving campaign compared to 4agoodcause.


We will participate in GA Gives for 2019-2020- We will engage the TMSA Community



Basecamp 

We will sunset Bascamp due to the cost associated with and the lack of users. It is underutilized


Survey Results 


  1. 240 Survey Parent Responses Received and 29 Staff responses.(Conducted: June/July 2019).

Communications Committee will continue to gain clarity next year to determine trends and engage Governing Board committees to help address low scoring areas paired with the strategic plan. The Committees will determine tracking metrics to improve area.


Actions:

  1. Remove Fulton county Public Charter School from the bottom of the logo on uniforms.
  2. Authorizing Communications Manager up to $1,000 in existing budget to outsource donation portal to 4agoodcause
  3. Propose to move to second designer per voting results.

Attachments

Finance Committee Report 5 minutes

  1. PTO Report
  2. FY19 Audit
  3. FY20 Financials
  4. Approve banking option and payroll account.
  5. We were awarded two capital improvement grants. (1) $30,000 - fence and lighting upgrade in storefront and (2) $40,000 - assessment for basement utilization.

Actions:

  1. Approve banking option to transfer the student activity checking account from SunTrust to Wells Fargo and open both a payroll account and a separate operating account at Wells Fargo by December 31,2019.

Academic & School Performance Committee Report 5 minutes

This report is submitted by the ASPC Chair.

Governance Committee Report 10 minutes

This report is submitted by the governance committee chair


Election of Committee Chairs - Voting Item

Actions:

  1. To approve the selection of Committee Chairs.

Future Business 5 minutes

This is to add new business to next month’s agenda.