Board Minutes Jan 9 2020
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF
Board of Horizons K-8 School
Jan 9th, 2020
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Facilitators: Paul Martin / Lucas Ketzer
Note Taker: Hope Nelson-Roohr (non-member)
Minutes: Geary Layne
Timekeeper: Peter Hegelbach
Process Observer: Tyler Currie
Call to Order: 6:00pm
Present:
Alex Osias, Allison Akhnoukh, Beth Coleman, Geary Layne, Julie Cohen, Karen Wolfer, Lucas Ketzer, Paul Martin, Peter Hegelbach, Teran Sittner, Tyler Currie
Absent:
Quorum established
Arrived after Call to Order:
Paul Ramer – 6:07pm
Guests:
Welcome & Invitation for public comments:
Approval of Agenda:
Motion – Lucas Ketzer (with adjustments to time allotment for two topics)
Second – Geary Layne
Concorded, Paul Ramer not yet present
Approval of Minutes:
Motion – Tyler Currie (with a few corrections)
Second – Lucas Ketzer
Concorded
Head of School Report:
- Finance Review Committee (FRC) met yesterday
- Thursday School Accountability Committee (SAC) is meeting to look at climate data
- Faculty will receive “intent to return” letters in late January, thus we will be able to plan for next year hiring
- Open Enrollment
- 36 openings in Kindergarten
- 5 other openings (at this time)
- Wait lists sufficient to insure full enrollment next year
- Lucas and Karen will attend BVSD hosted Kagan Strategies meeting
- Lucas and Karen attended District Leadership Team (DLT)
Decision Making Matrix:
- More work done, social and emotional learning (SEL) section complete
- SEL committee will be formed to explore and evaluate SEL curriculum
Principal Evaluation/Hiring Committee:
- Board members received Head of School survey results
- Paul Martin and Allison shared evaluation with Lucas
- Faculty recused themselves
- Discussion regarding offering the permanent Head of School position to Lucas
Motion – Alex Osias
Extend offer of permanent contract as Head of School to Lucas
Second – Paul Ramer
Concorded, Faculty Board Members Abstained
- Board’s intent to make offer will be posted to community via Skylines
Finance Review:
- Joan and Lucas prepare mid year budget revision
- Board will decide on approving revised budget at special meeting on Jan 16th
- BVSD advised that 2016 mil levy will provide more money than originally budgeted
- Peak to Peak and Summit are contesting BVSD interpretation of 2005 mil levy
- Lucas and Tyler are working on questions regarding purchased services from BVSD
Development Committee:
- One person will be joining Karen and Alex
- Working on ideas for paddle raisers
- Start valentines day moolah push
Charter Renewal:
- BVSD is mostly done with Initial look thru of renewal application
- Most areas scored 3 (satisfactory)
- Couple things to address
- Clean up language of vision and mission
- Need to adjust teacher evaluation process to be compliant with Colorado Senate Bill 10-191 and include state standardized testing results
- Margaret Crespo will finalize the rubric and writes narrative and then negotiations will begin next week
- Council will need to approve the final contract
Mill Levy Override:
- Talked to lawyers and lobbyist at League
- Litigation is not wise since we are in the midst of charter negotiations
- Will keep abreast with litigation by Peak to Peak and Summit
May Board meeting:
- Meeting will be rescheduled for May 12 to avoid conflict with 8th grade aperture
Process Observer:
- We did well
- Good time management
Adjourned: 8:00pm