Board Meetings

Board Meeting October 28th at 7:00 PM

Posted by on Sep 25, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: 10/28/2014

Start Time: 7:00 PM

End Time: 9:05 PM

Location: Mountain View Academy Middle School Classroom

Attendees: Julie Valencia, Beau Garner, Laurie Cardwell, Jake Plahn

Agenda Items

  • Call Meeting to Order
  • Schedule next meeting
  • Adoption of Agenda
  • Approval of Minutes
  • Decide on picking up the employee PERS contribution.
    • We will stop picking this for December payroll – unanimous consent
  • Graham activity fee refund
    • We will refund $200 – unanimous consent
  • Utilizing sports teams for marketing purposes
  • E-School seminar
    • $75 – 1 day seminar – unamimous consent
    • We will pay her for the time spent at the seminar – unanimous consent
  • Purchase 1 more projector
    • $399 – unanimous consent
  • Purchase 2 more document cameras
    • $400 – unanimous consent
  • MAP testing
    • $4,500 entire staff training
    • $1,500 annual for under 100 kids
    • The deadline is November for the first round of tests. We don’t feel that we can get ourselves ready by then. We will review this again when budgeting for next year.
  • Teacher Evaluations
  • Overnight field trip
  • Review September Financial Reports
  • Adjourn
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Board Meeting September 24th at 7:00 PM

Posted by on Sep 9, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: 9/24/2014

Start Time: 7:00 PM

End Time: 9:10 PM

Location: Mountain View Academy Middle School Classroom

Attendees: Jake Plahn, Julie Valencia, Beau Garner, Laurie Cardwell

Agenda Items

  • Call Meeting to Order
  • Schedule next meeting
    • October 28th at 7:00 PM
  • Adoption of Agenda
    • approved – unanimous consent
  • Approval of Minutes
    • approved – unanimous consent
  • Review budget
  • Utility Addendum to Lease
    • approved – unanimous consent
  • Review student hours
  • Sign funding
    • approved – unanimous consent, $250 one time payment, we will revisit again in the spring and see if we have funding for another payment.
  • Bus transportation
  • Additional aide- 2 hours
    • Proposed schedule (from Laurie)
    • 8:00-8:10 in the morning, help Dana get kids to class
    • 8:20 – 9:45 reading
    • 9:45 – 10:00 help supervise recess with Dana
    • approved – unanimous consent, but we want this position to be filled by a licensed teacher.
  • Activity fee policy
    • approved – unanimous consent, to create an official policy that includes a refund.
  • Potential pilot program with departing student
  • Discuss hiring committee
  • Create self medicate policy
  • Policy for meds
  • LOCS membership $100/year
    • approved – unanimous consent, that Laurie will purchase a LOCS membership.
  • Parent volunteers
  • Teacher contracts
  • Policy for student enrollment for next year.
  • Adjourn

Action Items

  • Jake will discuss bus transportation with Walt and finalize by 10/8.
  • Jake run the numbers on reading teacher from 8:00 – 10:00 $20/hour and email them out
  • Create activity fee refund policy from ACE
  • Email parent asking for activity fee refund
  • Jake will post hiring committee to web site and FB and teachers (pool).
  • Jake will post medicine policy recommendations to web site.
  • Jake and Laurie will write the new enrollment policy
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Board Meeting September 4th 8:00 AM

Posted by on Sep 5, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: 9/4/2014

Start Time: 8:00 AM

End Time: 8:15 AM

Location: Lundy Elementary

Attendees: Beau Garner, Jake Plahn

Agenda Items

  • Opening Suislaw bank account with Jake Plahn and Kelly Harris as signers
    • Approved by unanimous consent

Action Items

  • Open bank account
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Board Meeting August 26th at 7:00 PM

Posted by on Jul 25, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: 8/26/2014

Start Time: 7:00 PM

End Time:

Location: Lundy Elementary Professional Development Room

Attendees: Beau Garner, Julie Valencia, and Jessica Cardwell

Agenda Items

  • Schedule next meeting
    • Wednesday 9/24
  • Review budget
    • Approved
  • Discuss first grade teacher hire
    • Amy Christensen has been hired as the first grade teacher
  • Discuss after school program rules, procedures, building usage, and insurance
    • We will not pursue the after school program.
  • Approve/Disapprove after school program
    • Not applicable

Action Items

  • Ask Lowell about municipal audit quote – Jake
  • Workmen’s comp insurance quote – Jake
  • Send budget to Lowell – Jake
  • Ask Lowell if we can use the community room – Jake
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Board Meeting July 22nd at 7:00 PM

Posted by on Jul 2, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: July 22nd 7:00 PM

Start Time: 7:00 PM

End Time: 9:30 PM

Location: Lundy Elementary Professional Development Room

Attendees: Julie Valencia, Beau Garner, Jake Plahn, Laurie Cardwell

Agenda Items

  • Adoption of Agenda
    • Unanimous consent
  • Approval of Minutes
    • Unanimous consent
  • Schedule next meeting
    • August 26th 7:00 PM
  • Determine who is going to purchase Cleaning Supplies, Classroom Supplies, and Office Supplies
    • Laurie will do the initial purchases, Kelly will purchase throughout the school year. Unanimous consent
  • Make healthcare decision
    • We will do the prep work for insurance, Julie will contact a healthcare provider. Unanimous consent
  • Make library usage decision
    • We will not use Lundy’s library. Unanimous consent
  • Decide if we want to provide lunch for our students
    • We will allow Lundy to provide lunch for us. Unanimous consent
  • Update on wall removal
  • Update on curriculum purchase
  • Sign up for tasks
  • Discuss a plan for increasing enrollment
  • Update on progress of Lundy building
  • Music teacher option (I found one that used to work forHomesource & has charter school cert)
    • Teachers will align the music curriculum and we will not pursue a designated music teacher. Unanimous consent
  • Homeschool connection
    • We will not pursue adding a home school program at this time. Unanimous consent

Action Items

  • Julie/Laurie: Print 2,138 copies and drop them off at the post office
  • Laurie: coordinate with Jessica on the charter brochure.
  • Jake: Get Laurie mtviewacademy.org email address.
  • Jake: Setup the mailer online for Dexter and Pleasant Hill
  • Jake: Send Laurie the flier with the valid images
  • Jake: Update the web site, so it is marketing/parent focused.
  • Jake: send Julie the health insurance contact information
  • Jake: let Lowell know we want them to provide lunch for our students
  • Jake: let Lowell know that we don’t want to utilize their library

 

 

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Board Meeting June 24th at 7:00 PM

Posted by on Jun 24, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: June 24th

Start Time: 7:00 PM

End Time: 9:00 PM

Location: Lundy Elementary Professional Development Room

Attendees: Jake Plahn, Julie Valencia, Beau Garner, Laurie Cardwell

Agenda Items

  • Schedule next meeting
    • July 22nd 7:00 PM
  • School hours for next year
    • 8:15 am – 2:50 pm
  • Purchasing curriculum
    • Curriculum for the following subjects will be determined in the “Curriculum Development and Alignment” sessions occurring in July and August: reading, PE, music, english/language, health, science, and art.
    • The curriculum for math and social studies has already been determined.
    • Laurie would like to buy non consumable textbooks for 102 students and has sent a purchase request to the board.
  • Kindergarten assessment
    • Kirsten will take the training.
  • Lead testing
    • Laurie will email all of the volunteers the statement from Lowell.
  • Timeline/progress of work at Lundy
  • Advertising/recruiting more students
    • We will send out a mailer advertising our open house.
  • Determining what we need to pay for versus what Lowell should pay for with the money they get from our kids

Action Items

  • Jake will get a credit card for Laurie.
  • Jake will compile mailer and send it out for approval.

 

 

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