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Mountain View Academy

45 S. Moss ◊ Lowell, Oregon 97452 ◊ (541)735-1709

Board of Director’s Meeting

October 26, 2021

7:00 pm – Public Session

The Mountain View Academy School Board encourages public input.  Persons wishing to address the Board on school related issues, are invited to do so, either when the item is presented on the agenda, or under the “Public Comments” section.  In the interest of time and order, presentations from the public are limited to three (3) minutes per person, and the total time for individual agenda items shall not exceed (21) minutes.  An individual speaker’s allotted time may not be increased by a donation of time from members of the public in attendance.  If you wish to speak under Public Comments, please complete a Public Comment Form and turn it in to the Rita Fischer.  The Board requests complaints or charges against an employee be held in Executive Session.  Individuals who require disability-related accommodations or modifications to participate in the Board meeting should contact the Administrator in writing prior to the meeting.

AGENDA

1.0 OPENING OF PUBLIC SESSION –

            1.1 Public Session Call to Order: 7:07pm meeting called to order.

            1.2 Attendance:

Julie Valencia, Board President

Beau Garner, Board Vice President

Rita Fisher, Board Member (via ZOOM)

Stacey Kelso, Board Member (via (ZOOM)

Stephanie Johnson, Board Member

Jessica Cardwell, Director

Laurie Cardwell, Director

                        1.2.1 Guests:

1.3 Approval of Agenda: Approve the agenda as written

            1.4 Approval of Minutes: Approve the prior months minutes

            1.5 Schedule Next Meeting: November 30, 2021 at 7pm.

1.6 Budget: Beau brought up the idea of switching the wording on the budget from, “revised” to “updated” or something similar. Board approved the updated budget. Discussed the reason that we went further into deficit spending.

1.7 Financial Report: The board has received and reviewed their financial packet.

2.0 PUBLIC COMMENT – Opportunity for Citizens to address items not on the Agenda. Persons wishing to address the Board on any school related issue not listed elsewhere on the agenda are invited to do so now.  Audience time is not intended as a forum for public debate. Questions raised may require further investigation. Normally, the board will wait until its next meeting before responding to concerns raised.

3.0 ACTION DISCUSSION

3.1 Approve the purchase of 10 staff computers – Current staff computers are six years old and are gradually slowing down.  Jessica and Laurie would like to purchase 10, new, Apple computers to replace the current computers before there is a crash and teachers are left without a computer.

Rita motions to approve the purchase of 10 Apple computers for staff. Stephanie seconds the motion. Hearing no further discussion, the motion unanimously passed.

3.2 Approve the transfer of funds from the Future Focus Fund – MVA has been diligently building the FFF for specific needs.  One of those needs has been making provisions for future technology purchases.

Rita makes a motion to approve the transfer of $25,000 from the Future Focus Fund to the technology line item of the budget. Stacey seconds the motion. Hearing no further discussion, the motion unanimously passed.

3.2 Approve the audit findings for 2020 – 2021 – The board went through the 43 items found by the 2020 – 2021 school year. Julie shared the praise that the auditors had for Maureen and her bookkeeping.

Stephanie Johnson motions to approve the audit findings for the 2020 – 2021 school year. Beau Garner seconds the motion. Hearing no further discussion, the motion unanimously passed.

4.0 INFORMATION AND STUDY

4.1 Summer School Board Conference recap – Stephanie Johnson  

Stephanie Johnson attended the OSBA Summer School Board Conference. She shared what she learned, the house/senate bills that had passed, and best practices for boards.

4.2 Board Chair report

• ORS 192.670 & House Bill 2560
• Bonus line item was discussed

4.3 Administrator’s Report

• Update on grants – 1^st quarter journaling completed.

• Staff Update

• Emergency Teaching Certification – The Teachers Standards and Practice Commission changed the standards to be a substitute teacher. We have certified 4 of our educational assistants to be subs for us.

• COVID Impact – 16% of our student body has been impacted by COVID exposures. Teachers are working extra hard to make sure that students have everything they need to be successful while learning from home.

• Charter renewal update – We are working to find a time to meet with Johnie on the Charter renewal. The district has been busy navigating the Vaccine requirement and 2020 -2021 audit. As things calm down, we are going to begin working on this.

• Field Trips – November (movie night cancelled). December (We are sharing Christmas Traditions with the students.)

5.0 ADJOURNMENT

Public Session Call to Close: Meeting called to close at 8:41pm.

Any documents that are public records and are provided attachments to public session items on this agenda are accessible to the public on the school’s website, with the exception of documents provided at the time of the meeting.  Documents that are public records and are provided at the time of the meeting to a majority of the Board regarding a public session item, will be made available for public inspection upon request to the Administrator’s Assistant.

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