Welcome and Call to Order

The Meeting will be called to order by the Chair.

Mission: The mission of The Museum School of Avondale Estates is to inspire students, teachers and the community to collaborate to develop strong critical thinking, interpersonal and academic skills in our students, which will prepare them for real-world success.

 

Core Values: Responsibility, Respect, Cooperation, Sustainability, Creativity, Kindness

Public Comment

Our Public Comment period is for members of the public to address the board. The board will listen, but may not directly respond to any comments. Please do not use specific student, teacher or administrator names in your comments as 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.

Email Executive Director, Dr. Katherine Kelbaugh at Katherine.kelbaugh@themuseumschool.org for Zoom access to the meeting.

Public comment (no longer than one page) should be submitted via email to Katherine.kelbaugh@themuseumschool.org. Your comments must be received by 10:00 am on the day of the meeting. Only those emails received during the allotted time will be read aloud and broadcast. Emails received outside of the allotted time will be included in the Public Comments record for the next meeting.

Tamara Shipley, Chair of the TMS Advisory Council, announced the in-person quarterly Advisory Council meeting on Thursday and extended an invitation to the Board of Directors.

Approve Previous Meeting Minutes

Approve minutes of the previous monthly meeting.

Approve the Agenda

Approve the agenda as presented.

Executive Director Report

Executive Director Dr. Katherine Kelbaugh reported on covid related to TMS, the charter renewal process, provided an update from TMS Foundation and updated on the National Association of Museum Schools (NAMS).

Dr. Kelbaugh discussed the ongong mitigation, tracing and future instruction options that TMS leadership have developed related to covid concerns.

She then alerted the board that a charter renewal application with cover letter, as discussed in the August special called meeting, had been submitted and accepted as full/complete and was now under consideration by DeKalb Schools.

TMS Foundation had several updates, including the upcoming boosterthon and continued support and relationship-building with instruction staff at TMS.

Dr. Kelbaugh discussed several activities from NAMS including recruitment for Board and Advisory Council seats.

School Leader Report

Principal Mike Stewart reviewed enrollment demographics, additional covid protocol details, covid-related instructional impacts and covid-related staffing challenges. Principal Stewart also reviewed Milestones data; while overall TMS achievements were not as high as the school's historical trends, TMS students did outperformed the DeKalb District, overall, and the state, except for 3 categories. support of staff in variety of ways--incentives, PTO

Finance Committee Report

Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair Tamara Richards provided a review of July financials, with highlights of various expense and revenue line items. Ms. Richards noted that August regular Board of Directors meeting will include voting on a school year budget (remaining months), as DeKalb County Schools has now approved its budget and TMS budget can now be determined. She outlined the timeline for processing an application for PPP forgiveness and noted that the previous school year budget audit is on-going.

Facilities Committee Report

Chair Jade Yang reviewed the recent Facilities Committee meeting which focused on exploring space needs for the expanded orchestra program and greater weather flexibility for outdoor eating and meeting space. Ms. Yang mentioned a few options that the Committee is exploring, with input from Mr. Stewart and the Finance Committee (budgeting options).

Diversity Committee Report

Diversity Committee Chair Christina Cassidy had a brief report as the committee had not been able to meet this month, however, she reviewed priority items the committee was continuing to pursue.

Governance Committee Report

Governance Committee Chair Richard Piercy also had a brief report as Governance also had been unable to meet.

Board Chair Update

Board Chair Dr. Kelly Swinks did not have any updates to provide in public session.

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:57 pm