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.

Approve Previous Meeting Minutes

Approve previous meeting minutes.

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.

Finance Committee Update

Finance Committee Chair Ashley Rowland provided a report on behalf of the Finance Committee including an update on the annual audit of our Financial Statements which is done by Aprio. Aprio representatives joined our meeting to walk us through the Audited Statements. Ashley also went over the September monthly financials and highlighted any variances that we had with budget to actual. He also discussed that we received a report for less QBE funding than expected and the committee and Dr. Kelbaugh are working on this.

Principal's Report

Principal Hope Black provided a report to board members present including updated demographic and attendance numbers, upcoming events at the school, instructional updates, exhibit night recap, and upcoming author visits and book club events.

Executive Director's Report

Executive Director Dr. Katherine Kelbaugh provided a report to board members present including updates on projects with DCSD like the Site Review Instrument that is customized more to Charter Schools and presenting at the Charter Schools 101 Meeting with DCSD. She also gave updates on budget updates related to federal funding, security updates for the school with the security company Centegix with specialized staff badges, security updates with the DCSD Police Chief and researching SRO options. She also presented Foundation Updates on fundraising and overall events.

Facilities Committee Update

Facilities Committee Chair Trisha Cuda provided a report on current facilities projects like the Routine Maintenance Contract process and the landscaping/water erosion project with Shades of Green.

Governance Committee Update

Governance Committee Chair Jamie Carroll provided a report included an update on Board Retreat on 10/27 and what will be included, updates on the next Recruitment cycle in January, upcoming recruiting events for parent involvement for committees. Jamie also provided an update on the Strategic Monitoring plan for the Governance Committees goals.

Diversity Committee Update

Diversity Committee Chair Monique Dukes provided a report to board members present including updates from the last two Diversity Committee meetings. She gave updates on what they have been working on such as the research on the weighted lottery project and their work with the other committees.

Board Chair Update

Board Chair Robin Reese gave short remarks to the Board on updates on working with the relationship with DCSD representatives.

Adjourn

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:02 pm