January 21, 2014<\/b><\/p>\n
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Members Present: Virginia Trujillo, President, Community Member<\/p>\n
Chris Velasquez, Secretary, Parent<\/p>\n
Jim Freese, Community Member<\/p>\n
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Members Absent: Todd Caplan, Vice President, Parent<\/p>\n
Lori Hagen, Community Member<\/p>\n
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Guests: Mary Tarango, Principal<\/p>\n
Judy Bergs, APS finance<\/p>\n
Tami Coleman, APS Finance<\/p>\n
Rita Hirschy, APS Finance<\/p>\n
Jim Richardson, 21st<\/sup> Century School<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meeting called to Order at 6:46 pm<\/b><\/p>\n Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes<\/b><\/p>\n Review December 12, 2013 meeting minutes:<\/p>\n Correction to minutes submitted by Judy.\u00a0 Spelling error of \u201cdisbursements\u201d in School Finances.<\/p>\n Motion to approve corrected minutes \u2013 Chris Velasquez<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> \u2013 Jim Freese<\/p>\n Passes unanimously<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Open Forum:<\/b><\/p>\n Tami introduced Rita Hirschy as a new member of the APS Finance team assisting the school.\u00a0 She will be doing Business Manager duties.<\/p>\n Virginia mentioned sending the APS bullying policy to parents for their signature.<\/p>\n Chris asked if Foundation could potentially purchase the new server out of existing Foundation funds.\u00a0 New server is needed if we are to be PARCC compliant by Spring of 2015.\u00a0 Standardized testing will follow the PARCC\u2019s next generation assessment system and will need to be done completely online.\u00a0 Our current computer server is woefully inadequate.\u00a0 Server is approximately $40k.\u00a0 Jim indicated Foundation doesn\u2019t have $40k; asked if PED could potentially pay for it since it\u2019s a PED requirement for assessment system.\u00a0 Tami indicated PED was to provide matching funds to schools who were eligible after submitting PARCC Readiness Assessments to PED.\u00a0 APS has not received any funds and Mark Tolley has not been notified if APS to receive matching funds. Mary indicated PED gave some SB9 funds to go towards server.<\/p>\n Mary added a discussion point for the need of a new server; the Student Information System needs to be on a capable server and in addition, current computer lab teacher, Mr. Peckens, has resorted to using Google Domain to act as a server for his lab classes.<\/p>\n Virginia stated that Maxine Mora may want to join the Governance Council.<\/p>\n School Finances<\/b><\/p>\n Statement of Expenditures presented.\u00a0 Operational Balance was reported at $90k in debt.\u00a0 Slowly making improvements.\u00a0 21st<\/sup> Century finances were again discussed at recent APS Board meeting and the overall indication from the APS Board is they think positively about the school and how much we are achieving and want the school to succeed.\u00a0 They are concerned that we will end the school year in a negative, but do not want to damage the school.\u00a0 All are hoping Unit Value will increase by end of January.\u00a0 1 BAR submitted to adjust current budget.<\/p>\n Intra-function transfer to align with actuals in the 24106 Fund (IDEA-B) by way of adjustments to Therapists-Contracted, Specialists-Contracted, and Speech Therapists-Contracted.\u00a0 A net $0 transfer.<\/p>\n Motion to approve BAR<\/p>\n Motion\u00a0 \u2013 Jim Freese<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> \u2013 Chris Velasquez<\/p>\n Passed unanimously.<\/p>\n Cash disbursements presented.\u00a0 Nothing out of the ordinary observed.\u00a0 $164.8k in December.<\/p>\n Motion to approve Cash Disbursements and approve BAR\u2019s<\/p>\n Motion\u00a0 \u2013 Jim Freese<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> \u2013 Chris Velasquez<\/p>\n Passed unanimously.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal\u2019s<\/b> Report:<\/b><\/p>\n Mary submitted her report for the record<\/p>\n 40-day count is 257 students, not 256 as indicated in written submission<\/p>\n Goal is 263 for 180 day count (avg. goal for next yr is 260)<\/p>\n Jim asked if magazine ad is drawing in parents.\u00a0 Mary indicated that, right now, Radio ad is working more.\u00a0 Jim would like Ms. Morga to ask parents how they found out about 21st<\/sup> Century when she gets calls so we can assess what\u2019s working and not working.<\/p>\n Open House is scheduled for 25 January.<\/p>\n School Choice Fair is at Pyramid, 3 February.<\/p>\n Will have a wall section to advertise our school.<\/p>\n Virginia may purchase pens that have name and # of our school printed on them to hand out at fair.<\/p>\n Parent Survey discussed<\/p>\n Amazing scores for majority of items.<\/p>\n Low score on number 18:\u00a0 Governance Council Parental Involvement<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Business<\/b><\/p>\n Old Business discussed before New Business<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Old Business<\/b><\/p>\n Charter School Performance Contract presented for approval items<\/p>\n Reviewed \u201cYellow Highlighted Areas\u201d in Contract that need Governance Council approval.\u00a0 Too numerous to mention here<\/p>\n Basic edits were description of school, history, and school\u2019s mission<\/p>\n Motion to approve edits to Charter School Performance Contract \u2013 Jim Freese<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup>-Chris Velasquez<\/p>\n Passed Unanimously<\/p>\n APS Charter School Performance Framework presented for discussion<\/p>\n Focus on changes will be centered around Special Education<\/p>\n Intent is to align us more with APS and PED with respect to Special Ed.<\/p>\n Action Item for Governance Council for next meeting is to approve the Framework<\/p>\n Bullying Policy \u2013 Will send out APS policy with notice to parents for signature.<\/p>\n Training \u2013 Ron Romero will find out about being able to train the Governance Council himself, in lieu of the PED training.\u00a0 Mark Tolley also to check into this with PED.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Business<\/b><\/p>\n Principal\u2019s Evaluation discussed<\/p>\n \u201cTeachscape\u201d not available to us yet, so evaluation format needs to be decided.<\/p>\n Nothing in place now on what objectives are to be used to evaluate the Principal.<\/p>\n Objectives were written by Mary last year and will be template for Governance Council to agree on.<\/p>\n Needs to be done 30 days prior to end of contract.\u00a0 Current contract completion date is 30 June 2014.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meeting Dates:\u00a0 (6 pm)<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n February 20\u00a0 New Date Tuesday 25<\/b><\/p>\n March 20<\/p>\n April 24<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Motion to adjourn:\u00a0 <\/b>Jim Freese<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> \u2013 Chris Velasquez<\/p>\n Passes unanimously.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meeting Adjourned at 7:58pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 21, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}