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Board Minutes Apr 30 2020

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF
Board of Horizons K-8 School

April 30th, 2020
6:02 pm - 7:38 pm

Meeting held virtually via Zoom

Facilitators: Paul Martin / Lucas Ketzer
Note Taker: Hope Nelson-Roohr (non-member)
Minutes: Geary Layne
Timekeeper: Paul Ramer

Process Observer: Peter Hegelbach

Call to Order:  6:02pm
Present: Alex Osias, Allison Akhnoukh, Beth Coleman, Geary Layne, Julie Cohen, Karen Wolfer, Lucas Ketzer, Paul Martin, Paul Ramer, Peter Hegelbach, Teran Sittner, Tyler Currie

Absent:

Quorum established

Guests: Moreno Robbins, Aubrey Demmon, Wendy Thoresen, Joan Truesdale, Mia Seymour, Natalie Bauer, Nicoleta Simon, Tali Shapiro, Fran Cohen, Lynn Pence, Rachel Buckley, Sherry Davis, Chris Mangogna, Traci Bushnell, Daniel Acosta, Gena Welk, Sara Michaels

Welcome & Invitation for  public comments:

Approval of Agenda:
Motion - Paul Ramer
Second - Karen Wolfer
Concorded

Approval of Minutes:
Motion - Paul Ramer
Second - Allison Akhnoukh
Concorded

End of school year update:

  • Discussion about adjusting the end of school (end of instructional hours)
    • Due to construction, Horizons started a week later than rest of BVSD
    • Horizons scheduled to end a week later
    • BVSD stated that an adjustment to instructional hour would need to come from a Horizons Board resolution
    • Student successes and challenges were noted
    • Transition to online learning and engaging curriculum is significantly more work
    • Teachers could use time to reflect, and plan for next year

Motion -  Lucas Ketzer

Board instructs Horizons to ends student instruction on May 22

Second - Geary Layne
Concorded

Finance Review Committee:

  • Discussion of how to reduce Horizons budget
  • Given projections, without changes to budget we could deplete reserves within 5 year
  • Horizons needs to budget for projected deficits in funding, possible 10% reduction
    • Changes to BVSD policies
      • Mill Levy distributions
      • Cost and reimbursement policies on BVSD services
    • Economic impacts of COVID-19
      • Downturn in economy
      • Loss of after care revenue

Motion - Tyler Currie

Move to extend meeting to continue this discussion by 10 minutes

Second - Lucas seconds
Concorded

  • Further discussion

Motion -  Lucas Ketzer

Proposes that he presents a budget with a deficit of $200-300K for approval at May Board meeting

Second - Tyler Currie
Concorded

Process Observer:

  • Heard many voices
  • Difficult decisions
  • Extra time was worth it
  • Tried different scenarios

Adjourned: 7:38pm