Welcome and Call to Order

The meeting will be called to the order, beginning with the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence.

Welcome and Call to Order

The meeting will be called to the order, beginning with the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence.

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.

Report from Governing Board

The Governing Board met on Monday May 20th, 2019 @5:30 PM for what was scheduled to be a 2 hours and 56 minutes long meeting. Present: Donald Morillo, Timothy Thorn, Jeffrey Wiseman, George Williams, Abby Wilkins, Henry Meeuwse, Melanie Millar, Sandra Barbour Not Present: none The members considered the following items: 1. Welcome and Call to Order 2. Approval of Agenda 3. Approval of Minutes from Apr 15, 2019 4. Approval of Minutes from Apr 25, 2019 5. Public Comment 6. Prestige (KM Consulting) 7. 2nd Reading of 19-20 Budget 8. One Lunch for JICHS 9. June 7, 2019, Staff Release at 12:30 pm 10. Leadership Report 11. Maintenance Report 12. School Leader Report 13. Executive Session 14. Motions From Executive Session The committee considered 10 motions, of which 10 passed, and 0 failed: 1. Approve the agenda as submitted (passed) 2. Approve the minutes as submitted (passed) 3. Approve the minutes as submitted (passed) 4. One Lunch at JICHS (passed) 5. Early release (passed) 6. Into Executive Session (passed) 7. Out of Executive Session (passed) 8. Approve Carpet Quote (passed) 9. Approve additional CTE square footage (passed) 10. Accept Amendment for Section 4.4 of the CCSD Charter Contract. (passed) The meeting adjourned at 7:55 PM

Public Comment

Our Public Comment period is for members of the public to address the board. Each member of the public may sign up to comment at the meeting and will be allotted two minutes. The board will listen, but may not directly respond to any comments. 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.

Prestige (KM Consulting)

Presenting JISCH monthly Financial Statement.

Energy decreased by 100K

Student Transportation- Increased by 70k for maintenance of the activity bus.

Pupils service has been increased by 40K

Net 420k year to date federal has come in from CCSD and we have 2 kee expenses that will come out (payroll and benefits)

2019-2020 Budget

3rd Reading of the Budget for the 19-20 school year.

Changes pg 2. State passed a salary increase EIA increase is 576K

Pg. 7 Split out maintenance cost for buses so it will have its own line item

378k projected net income FY20.

Charter Revisions

Current-

The Leadership Team shall be comprised of the following teaching and administrative staff members: the Department Chairs of Science, Math, English, Social Studies, World Languages, Guidance, Physical Education, Career and Technology Education, Fine Arts, ROTC, Special Education, and Library Media; and the Athletic Director, IB Coordinator, Assistant Principals, and the Principal.

Revision- The Leadership Team shall be comprised of the principal, assistant principals, department chairpersons, and any other faculty or staff member that is approved by the Leadership Team.  

New- The Mission of JICHS is to develop confident, responsible, lifelong and college-career ready learners who can excel in society by means of an innovative and diverse curriculum in a safe and enriching (old- nurturing) environment supported by all stakeholders. 

Add Instructional coach to Leadership Team, Split Fine Arts Department Chair into Visual Arts and Performing Arts, amend the teacher workday to 7:45 am to 3:45 pm.

School Leader Report

Presented by Mr. Thorn

Academics/School Update of Events

5/28/19 TEE Time with JICHS Leadership Team

We had over 40 parents show up. The parents were very receptive to the changes for next year. Below is the agenda from the event.

• Charter Goals
• Change is in the Air
• Busing Contract
• ILT/SLT- One Lunch Concept
• AVID
• Capturing Kids Hearts Training 18-19 and 19-20
• Construction Projects
• Technology Plan

6/8/19 JICHS Graduation at North Charleston Coliseum

Thank you to Angela Childs-Kindred and all the other staff members that worked to make graduation a huge success.

EOC Testing

There were no major issues with EOC testing. The preliminary tests results look similar to our scores from the past couple of years. The Leadership Team and departments will be analyzing this data before the next school year.   

6/11 Leadership Retreat 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Agenda

• Election of Leadership Officers- Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary
• Program of Studies
• Review of 2018-19 Data
• Review 2018-19 Departmental Goals
• James Island Branding/Marketing Activity
• One Lunch Planning
• Review Action Committees Recommendations
• Team Building Activity for staff in August  
• Select a date for second LT Retreat

Late- in/Early Out Change

CCSD’s interpretation from the state is that students must be scheduled for ¾ of the school day. This means that all students must have three classes per semester. Seniors used to be able to take 5 classes. Now they must take 6 classes. If a student is not scheduled for ¾ of the day then we will lose funding. JICHS Late-in/Early Out Policy, student must qualify or pre-qualify as College or Career Ready to earn an early out or late in. This has been in effect now for several years. Also, lunch cannot appear on a students schedule. This has no effect on students.  

Master Schedule

Mr. Drake, Mrs. Holland, Mr. Gilbert, and the department chairs are working on the master schedule for next year. We currently working through course requests for the rising 9th graders. The Attendance Office is working diligently to get the students from CRMS and the open enrollment students enrolled for next year. The preliminary sectioning is being done for next year. There are currently just over 1500 students’ course requests in PowerSchool for next year. We are hoping to have over 1560 students for next year.

Technology- Angela Childs-Kindred    

At the end of the year website admin meeting, we were informed that CCSD will move to a new platform for school websites.  We will no longer use SharpSchool (School Messenger) and will move to Blackboard. The feedback from Mr. Gilbert and Mrs. Childs-Kindred is that is a much better platform.

Enrollment Update

19-20 School year- 1553

Ms. Rivera and Mrs. Swittenberg are calling all the school choice applicants to see if they still intend on enrolling at JICHS.

TOTAL : 1,567

Staff Professional Development

• Capturing Kids Hearts Training was scheduled for June 5-6
• SCASA Conference June 17-19- Admin Team
• Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) training throughout the summer
• AVID Training June 25-27
• AP/IB Training throughout the summer

Construction Update CTE and Competition Gym

The last construction meeting was on May 14, 2019. The high bay portion of the CTE-wing was redesigned to show a flexible space, which was the space for mechatronics. The flexible space will eventually be designed for a Culinary Arts Program.  

We currently have enough course requests to offer 5 sections of Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism, which is the prerequisite for Culinary Arts 1. The Culinary Arts classes will be full again next year. Eventually. In the future, we may have the demand for a second Culinary Arts teacher.     

We have received all of the culinary arts equipment from the PCI Auctions-Art Institute. The equipment is being stored in two Conex boxes by the baseball and softball fields.     

James Island Bus Lot

The CCSD Board of Trustees approved the James Island Lot Project to be constructed on our campus. The bus lot will go on the practice field behind the stadium grandstands. In order to support the needs of our athletic programs, the Board of Trustees approved $750,000 funding for JICHS to construct a secondary competition field. Preliminary plans have been created by CCSD.  

Charter Revisions

The process to revise the charter requires approval from the Leadership Team, the JICHS Board of Directors, and CCSD Board of Trustees.  CCSD recommended that use generic language when possible so that small, subtle changes do not need approval from the Board of Trustees. We did attempt to do that when we wrote the charter.    

Mission Statement

Current Charter

The Mission of JICHS is to develop confident, responsible, lifelong and college-career ready learners who can excel in society by means of an innovative and diverse curriculum in a safe and nurturing environment supported by all stakeholders.

Revision

The Mission of JICHS is to develop confident, responsible, lifelong and college-career ready learners who can excel in society by means of an innovative and diverse curriculum in a safe and enriching environment supported by all stakeholders.

Leadership Team Definition

Current Charter

The Leadership Team shall be comprised of the following teaching and administrative staff members: the Department Chairs of Science, Math, English, Social Studies, World Languages, Guidance, Physical Education, Career and Technology Education, Fine Arts, ROTC, Special Education, Library Media,  the Athletic Director, IB Coordinator, Assistant Principals, and the Principal.

Revision

The Leadership Team shall be comprised of the principal, assistant principals, department chairpersons, and any other faculty or staff member that is approved by the Leadership Team.

On June 2, 2019 the Leadership team approved the following:

• Add an Instructional Coach to the Leadership Team. Rationale- the entire focus of the position is curriculum and instruction, therefore, this person should be a member of the Leadership Team.  
• Divide the Fine Arts Department into the Visual Arts and Performing Arts Departments. The curriculum is completely different. Both departments have large budgets and are highly visible to the community.   

Board Meeting Dates

2019-20 Board of Directors- 5:30 pm on the third Monday of the month.

8/26, 9/16, 10/21, 11/18, 12/16, 1/27, 2/24, 3/16, 4/20, 4/14, 5/18, 6/22

2019-20 Finance Committee- 4:00 pm on the second Monday of the month.

8/12, 9/9, 10/14, 11/11, 12/9,  1/13, 2/10, 3/9, 4/14 (Tuesday), 5/11, 6/8

Calendar of Events

6/25-6/27 AVID Training  

July- No scheduled board meetings

8/12 Finance Committee Meetings

8/14 First day for teachers

8/21 First day of school for students

8/26 Board of Directors Meeting 5:30 pm

Executive Session

• Contracts- IRF Legal Update
• Personnel- Athletic Director position
• Legal- 
• Student Privacy-  

Motions from Executive Session

The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 1:39 pm