Meeting Summary

The Governing Board met on Thursday July 11th, 2019 @7:00 PM for what was scheduled to be a 2 hours and 26 minutes long meeting. Present: Giff Beaton, Kapinga Mukenge, April Ledom, Kanethia Henderson, Deborah Cureton, Shadeed Abdul-Salaam, Peter Vantine, Jessica Pressley-Willis, Patrick Muhammad Not Present: Sharlonne Smith

The members considered the following items:

1. Welcome and Call to Order
2. Approval of Agenda
3. Public Comment
4. Approval of Minutes from Jun 3, 2019
5. Academic Excellence Committee
6. Finance Committee
7. Governance Committee
8. Old Business
9. New Business
10. Executive Session
11. Meeting Adjournment

The committee considered 14 motions, of which 10 passed, and 2 failed:

1. Approve the agenda as submitted (proposed)
2. Motion to approve the agenda as presented (passed)
3. Approve the minutes as submitted (proposed)
4. Motion to approve the minutes from the previous Board meeting. (passed)
5. To add Samuel Wakefield to the board, effective immediately for a parent seat with a 3-year term limit (passed)
6. Approve the Governance Committee report as presented (passed)
7. To get into Executive Session at 8:08pm (passed)
8. To come out of Executive Session @ 8:26 pm (passed)
9. Implement the changes proposed by Kanethia Henderson to the financial reports with the assistance of Terrence (failed)
10. To adjourn meeting @ 8:52 pm (passed)
11. Motion to approve the Academic Excellence Report (passed)
12. Motion to accept the Finance committee report as presented (passed)
13. To have the issue of the PTO policy referred to the Governance and Academic Excellence Committees for further review (failed)

14. To have the Academic Excellence Committee review the PTO policy with the Leadership team and make some recommendations to the board (passed)

    The meeting adjourned at 10:42PM