WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.990 --> 00:00:06.910 Sukai Durosimi: You're fine. 2 00:00:07.590 --> 00:00:18.840 Sukai Durosimi: with it, and it becomes a issue. And he was like, I see… I understand what you're saying, Ms. But we have 7 days. I said, what is it, girl? 3 00:00:19.100 --> 00:00:23.519 Sukai Durosimi: That's just so the point. 4 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:28.190 Sukai Durosimi: Let me talk with the parent of the, … 5 00:00:29.620 --> 00:00:33.979 Sukai Durosimi: of the student I'm talking about. Okay. We have no conversation in public. 6 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:39.050 Sukai Durosimi: Hello, hello, welcome back. 7 00:00:40.260 --> 00:00:40.970 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah. 8 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:46.700 Sukai Durosimi: I think you're muted. 9 00:00:48.610 --> 00:00:50.830 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: I am present. 10 00:00:54.410 --> 00:00:56.009 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Present, present. 11 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:17.430 Troy Gardner: Hello! 12 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:22.579 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Hello, good evening. 13 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:27.170 Troy Gardner: Right. 14 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:33.820 Troy Gardner: You can get. 15 00:01:34.460 --> 00:01:36.840 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, yeah. 16 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.169 Troy Gardner: espresso going. Give me just a second. 17 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:52.299 Sukai Durosimi: I guess I don't know if I have to… … She's… he's online. 18 00:02:04.190 --> 00:02:04.880 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 19 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.780 Sukai Durosimi: So… We're in business! 20 00:02:11.230 --> 00:02:21.490 Sukai Durosimi: All right, Mr. Gardner, we're waiting for Ms. Bay, and Ms. Sandy Joy said she was going to be here in person. 21 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:22.800 Troy Gardner: Okay. …. 22 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:28.059 Sukai Durosimi: I'm not sure, but we're waiting for those two people. 23 00:02:28.770 --> 00:02:29.830 Troy Gardner: Okay, perfect. 24 00:02:30.090 --> 00:02:32.999 Sukai Durosimi: You want to text me, Sandy, I'll text Miss B. Okay. 25 00:03:17.310 --> 00:03:21.620 Sukai Durosimi: I didn't ask for it again. 26 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:24.750 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah, I usually just let them in. 27 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:27.799 Sukai Durosimi: But it says my AI. I didn't ask for it. 28 00:03:27.970 --> 00:03:32.680 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah, they automatically just show up to meetings, Zoom meetings. 29 00:03:33.340 --> 00:03:38.989 Sukai Durosimi: You have to take it off your 75 years ago. I did. I never even put it on there. 30 00:03:39.190 --> 00:03:42.050 Sukai Durosimi: I think they had it all from mine just came on, too. 31 00:03:42.630 --> 00:03:44.159 Sukai Durosimi: Gosh, that's creepy. 32 00:03:47.620 --> 00:03:49.480 Sukai Durosimi: I guess. 33 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.140 Sukai Durosimi: I don't know. 34 00:03:52.150 --> 00:03:54.059 Sukai Durosimi: How was your summer, Dr. Webb? 35 00:03:58.440 --> 00:04:02.889 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: I don't know that I have those. 36 00:04:03.230 --> 00:04:10.320 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: But… it's, it's… Picking up a lot… 37 00:04:11.550 --> 00:04:14.750 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: slightly overwhelmed, but I will be all right. 38 00:04:16.290 --> 00:04:18.930 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: How about yours? How's your summer? 39 00:04:19.450 --> 00:04:20.619 Sukai Durosimi: It was okay. 40 00:04:22.260 --> 00:04:22.620 Sukai Durosimi: Third one. 41 00:04:22.620 --> 00:04:23.870 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: At least. 42 00:04:24.340 --> 00:04:30.089 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah, I took my mom to Bali for her 70th. 43 00:04:30.170 --> 00:04:30.990 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Yeah. 44 00:04:30.990 --> 00:04:32.250 Sukai Durosimi: was good. 45 00:04:32.250 --> 00:04:40.039 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Okay, so yes, that's what we needed to catch up on. But how that went… I'm sure that was amazing. 46 00:04:40.570 --> 00:04:51.649 Sukai Durosimi: It was… she enjoyed it. She… she probably enjoyed it more than I did, because she likes things like… she likes a lot of things like that, the cooking school, the all of that, so… 47 00:04:52.070 --> 00:04:54.640 Sukai Durosimi: It was good. It was good for her. 48 00:04:55.200 --> 00:04:56.730 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Perfect. 49 00:04:57.940 --> 00:04:58.479 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Come on. 50 00:04:59.300 --> 00:05:00.300 Troy Gardner: Alright. 51 00:05:01.500 --> 00:05:02.346 Sukai Durosimi: Hi, Mr. 52 00:05:03.710 --> 00:05:05.190 Sukai Durosimi: Go ahead, Mr. Gardner. 53 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:08.219 Troy Gardner: So you need to take care, Ms. Brown. 54 00:05:08.530 --> 00:05:09.900 Sukai Durosimi: Hmm, yes. 55 00:05:09.900 --> 00:05:11.690 Troy Gardner: Osman, I'm sorry, Ms. Osman. 56 00:05:14.220 --> 00:05:15.400 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah…. 57 00:05:15.400 --> 00:05:18.860 Troy Gardner: Let me look at my agenda here. I'm flipping through my phone. 58 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:20.320 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 59 00:05:20.320 --> 00:05:22.499 Troy Gardner: Okay, it's all on here, okay, great. 60 00:05:23.730 --> 00:05:26.030 Troy Gardner: Do we have… who are we waiting on? 61 00:05:26.630 --> 00:05:39.969 Sukai Durosimi: We are trying to contact Ms. Sandy Joyce, and, I even texted her today, we spoke, she… there's arrangements that's made to get her here at 6, so I'm not sure what's the holdup. 62 00:05:40.090 --> 00:05:46.320 Sukai Durosimi: … We also offered a Chromebook, so she can, … 63 00:05:46.730 --> 00:05:54.300 Sukai Durosimi: Login online, but she insisted that she wanted to be in person, so… We're waiting to see. 64 00:05:59.170 --> 00:05:59.700 Troy Gardner: Huh. 65 00:06:00.930 --> 00:06:01.400 Sukai Durosimi: That's right. 66 00:06:01.400 --> 00:06:06.629 Troy Gardner: Well… We can't bowl unless Sandy's here, but… 67 00:06:07.180 --> 00:06:08.980 Troy Gardner: We can at least get started. 68 00:06:10.670 --> 00:06:11.860 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 69 00:06:11.860 --> 00:06:15.109 Troy Gardner: I know we had Ms. Bay online, on, on, on the call. 70 00:06:15.110 --> 00:06:15.920 Sukai Durosimi: Yes. 71 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:17.239 Troy Gardner: And I don't wanna…. 72 00:06:17.660 --> 00:06:18.490 Gloria Bey: Yes. 73 00:06:18.490 --> 00:06:19.650 Troy Gardner: Hold us up. 74 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:21.030 Sukai Durosimi: Waiting on this. 75 00:06:22.460 --> 00:06:24.550 Sukai Durosimi: But that's just my note-taker. 76 00:06:25.790 --> 00:06:26.510 Troy Gardner: Oh. 77 00:06:27.590 --> 00:06:33.459 Sukai Durosimi: Who's your… I can let Ms. Bay go first, if you, … 78 00:06:34.840 --> 00:06:38.840 Sukai Durosimi: So I've allowed… I'm allowing her to also share. 79 00:06:39.200 --> 00:06:43.490 Sukai Durosimi: I'm sharing… let me stop sharing, actually, so she can share. 80 00:06:43.630 --> 00:06:47.109 Troy Gardner: Okay, great. So, yeah, let's go ahead, let me just look… 81 00:06:47.490 --> 00:06:51.690 Troy Gardner: Let me follow the agenda. So, no public comments. 82 00:06:52.520 --> 00:06:54.600 Troy Gardner: No requests to hear from the board. 83 00:06:55.850 --> 00:07:00.080 Troy Gardner: And we will go straight into… okay, I see what you're saying when you say your secretary. 84 00:07:00.530 --> 00:07:04.809 Troy Gardner: … No, you say your note-taker, you have your note-taker, is that correct? 85 00:07:06.330 --> 00:07:25.640 Sukai Durosimi: It's an AI note-taker, but I'm recording the… I'm recording the board meeting because I think what's going to make it easy is for me to just download the narrative, download the video, and I, I have to upload it to the school website anyway, and also to the board classroom. 86 00:07:25.640 --> 00:07:27.900 Sukai Durosimi: For next meeting, so, yeah. 87 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:34.930 Troy Gardner: Okay, so… I know we need some things that we have approval on, So, let's do this. 88 00:07:35.170 --> 00:07:45.600 Troy Gardner: … Let's go with… Let's see, this Senate bill… … 89 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:50.719 Troy Gardner: We have Miss Bay Ware. I'm looking here. 90 00:07:54.890 --> 00:07:58.460 Troy Gardner: Do you have her on the agenda? Oh, I see her here. Business consent, okay. 91 00:07:58.590 --> 00:08:01.519 Troy Gardner: Go ahead and break down the cash flow. 92 00:08:02.070 --> 00:08:06.140 Troy Gardner: I'm somewhat familiar with what you're about to say, but… 93 00:08:06.690 --> 00:08:11.070 Troy Gardner: Since we're in official capacity of the board, let's go ahead and… 94 00:08:11.280 --> 00:08:15.650 Troy Gardner: And talk about the cash flow. Go ahead, Ms. Bay, and kind of break down what we are. 95 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:20.229 Troy Gardner: Based on today's… Let's start here. What was the enrollment? 96 00:08:20.750 --> 00:08:22.510 Troy Gardner: For today, Ms. Durasemi? 97 00:08:22.760 --> 00:08:26.560 Sukai Durosimi: Currently the enrollment is at 109. 98 00:08:26.850 --> 00:08:27.490 Troy Gardner: Okay. 99 00:08:28.210 --> 00:08:30.999 Troy Gardner: Perfect. So we have 109 enrolled. Okay. 100 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:37.510 Sukai Durosimi: 109 enrolled, but the ADA is going to be about, … 101 00:08:38.309 --> 00:08:45.370 Sukai Durosimi: I think the ADA is going to be around, … either 99 or 100. 102 00:08:46.280 --> 00:08:48.189 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Because of the half students at the…. 103 00:08:48.190 --> 00:08:50.380 Sukai Durosimi: Because of the pre-K students, yeah. 104 00:08:50.730 --> 00:08:53.750 Sukai Durosimi: So, they're about… let me see… 105 00:08:54.120 --> 00:09:10.340 Sukai Durosimi: 14 students that didn't show up today. Out of those 14, I believe 6 moved on to another school, and the other ones, they let voicemails for, I think 3 of them will be… 106 00:09:10.870 --> 00:09:14.119 Sukai Durosimi: here tomorrow. At least that's what the parents said. 107 00:09:14.810 --> 00:09:15.420 Troy Gardner: Okay. 108 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:19.080 Troy Gardner: Okay. Alright. 109 00:09:20.550 --> 00:09:21.470 Troy Gardner: I'm ready. 110 00:09:28.150 --> 00:09:34.210 Sukai Durosimi: I'm off-camera. Okay, so this is Miss Sandy. I think she's online. I mean, she's calling in. 111 00:09:37.610 --> 00:09:39.199 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: I'm listening off-camera. 112 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:47.560 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, alright, she's exiting Oakland. 113 00:09:47.870 --> 00:09:49.030 Sukai Durosimi: Right now. 114 00:09:49.380 --> 00:09:50.070 Troy Gardner: Okay. 115 00:09:50.270 --> 00:09:52.010 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, thank you. 116 00:09:52.710 --> 00:09:54.390 Gloria Bey: Do you want to wait? 117 00:09:57.030 --> 00:09:58.530 Troy Gardner: No, we can go ahead and get started. 118 00:09:58.920 --> 00:09:59.870 Gloria Bey: Okay. 119 00:09:59.870 --> 00:10:05.739 Troy Gardner: Because we can't pres… we can't vote until Sandy gets here. We can at least kind of get the presentation started. 120 00:10:06.990 --> 00:10:20.080 Gloria Bey: Okay. For those who don't know me, my name is Gloria Bay, and I am the founder of Bay Accounting Bookkeeping Services, and we've been looking into the cash flow for quite a few months now. 121 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:31.239 Gloria Bey: And what we're looking at today is going to be the cash flow projection, and then some of the financial outlook regarding, the Academy. You have any questions, just let me know. Just stop me in the middle. 122 00:10:31.730 --> 00:10:41.579 Gloria Bey: The East Fort Worth Montessori Academy is facing a significant decline in enrollment, and I think we all know that. 123 00:10:41.580 --> 00:10:46.599 Sukai Durosimi: I'm sorry, do you want to… you can share. I stopped sharing my screen if you want to share your presentation. 124 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:48.920 Gloria Bey: Oh, I thought, I thought y'all saw it, I thought I had. 125 00:10:48.920 --> 00:10:49.810 Sukai Durosimi: Sure. 126 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:51.320 Gloria Bey: I'm sorry. 127 00:10:54.570 --> 00:10:55.779 Gloria Bey: Let me get out of here. 128 00:11:19.160 --> 00:11:20.330 Gloria Bey: Can you see it? 129 00:11:21.860 --> 00:11:22.600 Sukai Durosimi: Yes. 130 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:23.960 Gloria Bey: Okay, good, good. 131 00:11:24.190 --> 00:11:29.869 Gloria Bey: Okay, so, what we're looking at here is, 132 00:11:30.190 --> 00:11:46.910 Gloria Bey: on this slide, that you all are facing a significant decline in your enrollment, and as we all know, that leads to reduced funding. So, additionally, the cash reserves are pretty much nonexistent. And so, when I say non-existent. 133 00:11:46.910 --> 00:11:50.309 Gloria Bey: There is realistically no cash in the bank for the Academy. 134 00:11:50.540 --> 00:12:06.969 Gloria Bey: So what you're operating on right now is just, is pretty much what we're calling, unreconciled cash. And I'll explain that later. But now the financial stability of the school is at risk. 135 00:12:07.130 --> 00:12:18.799 Gloria Bey: The objective of the presentation today is to review the current cash flow status, project your upcoming cash flows, inflows and outflows, and strategies on how we can stabilize those finances. 136 00:12:19.410 --> 00:12:37.719 Gloria Bey: So, if we look at your current financial snapshot on June 30, and the reason why I didn't do June 30 is because July is not complete, and Region 11 is still working on July. But as far as where your financial snapshot is at the moment, it's that your CD balance is $16,000. 137 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:49.050 Gloria Bey: So previously, there was a CD with a balance of $106,000, but in March of this year, we liquidated $90,000 of the CD, which left $16,000. 138 00:12:49.370 --> 00:13:06.390 Gloria Bey: Now, the cash on the books at Region 11, they sent me, the bank reconciliation report, and it shows a negative $38,921.80, and that is showing that there is an overdraw on the account. 139 00:13:06.580 --> 00:13:25.829 Gloria Bey: So, when I looked at it, it shows the Academy with a negative balance, and that means the account is overdrawn by that amount in your operating account. Now, this doesn't include the $16,000, because you add the $16,000 from the CD in there, and you come up to 20… a negative $22,000. So, it does not include the $16,000, because it's a whole separate account. 140 00:13:26.020 --> 00:13:40.109 Gloria Bey: So, even though the Wells Fargo bank statement shows a balance of $30,504 at the end of June, the general ledger shows a negative $38,921, 141 00:13:40.110 --> 00:13:49.099 Gloria Bey: Due to outstanding checks or outstanding withdrawals that it looks like have not cleared the bank as of yet. 142 00:13:49.620 --> 00:14:07.990 Gloria Bey: Now, I met with Ms. Ida, who identified those outstanding checks that should be removed, and there were payments to, UMB Credit for your credit card, and the amount was about $40,000, and those were turned. So, basically, there were payments for the credit card, but then they bounced back 143 00:14:07.990 --> 00:14:15.680 Gloria Bey: due to insufficient funds. And so now, staff is working with the credit card company and making partial payments 144 00:14:15.680 --> 00:14:17.830 Gloria Bey: Until the cash flow improves. 145 00:14:17.830 --> 00:14:36.739 Gloria Bey: So that $40,000 that's sitting out there, that's drawing down your cash in your general ledger, they need to be communicated to Region 11, so that I think your rep name is Samantha, so that she can go in and void those, so that your cash won't look as bad as it does right now. 146 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:52.270 Gloria Bey: Also, on the next bullet showing your current enrollment, the last number I had at the end of the year was about 109 students, and it's down from 184, students during the 23-24 school year. 147 00:14:52.490 --> 00:15:08.269 Gloria Bey: And so, over the 10 months, which was September through June, I look at all the total revenue that came in, and so the monthly total revenue average, about $162,500 a month. So, on average, some months might have been higher, some lower, but on average. 148 00:15:08.270 --> 00:15:18.620 Gloria Bey: You have about $162,500 coming in. Now, your expenses on your staff salaries, they average about $126,000 over the past 10 months. 149 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:37.960 Gloria Bey: And then all your other expenses after salaries, they average about $70,000. So the total monthly expenses over the past 10 months came out to about $196,000. So, as you can see, if your monthly revenue is averaging about $162,000, and your expense is $196, you're going to be sharp. So you're going to always be having a 150 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:39.729 Gloria Bey: A deficit, you're gonna be shocked. 151 00:15:42.540 --> 00:15:57.039 Gloria Bey: So, when I look at the enrollment, because we know that the enrollment drops a lot of the revenue for the foundation, when I looked at the enrollment back in 22, your enrollment, you ended the year with 185… 185 students. 152 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:09.850 Gloria Bey: And then in the year 23, your enrollment was 175, so it dropped about 10 kids. But then it went up a little bit in 24 years, at the end of 24, with 184 kids. 153 00:16:09.850 --> 00:16:23.890 Gloria Bey: But now, as we see, it had dipped in the 25 years to about 119 kids, and that's about, a 35% dip right there for that amount of 119 students. 154 00:16:23.890 --> 00:16:29.980 Gloria Bey: For the year. So, as you can see, at $22,185, and now we're down to 119. 155 00:16:31.710 --> 00:16:46.490 Gloria Bey: This is the cash flow projection that we've been looking at and going month from month on, and as I stated before, remember right here, you had the CD, it was $106,000, but $90,000 was liquidated in March of 25. 156 00:16:46.490 --> 00:17:01.459 Gloria Bey: Now, if you look at the months of September through June, those are actual amounts that I have in here. So what I did was I started off with projections, and then as the month occurred, and the actual came in, I would put the actual in there, project it out for the remainder of the year. 157 00:17:01.460 --> 00:17:16.430 Gloria Bey: So, as you can see, we've come through the month of June. If you look down here at the bottom for the ending M&O cash balance, it's a negative $22,000. That amount consists of what's in your general ledger, the negative 38 plus 158 00:17:16.430 --> 00:17:25.190 Gloria Bey: the $16,000 from your CD. That's how it lowered it to a negative $22,000. And the reason why the CD is included is because 159 00:17:25.190 --> 00:17:39.529 Gloria Bey: It's a short-term CD that's about 3-6 months, and if you have an instrument, investment instrument that is that amount of time, it's considered a cash equivalent. So that's the equivalent of cash, because it doesn't take very long to actually turn it into actual cash. 160 00:17:39.890 --> 00:17:46.329 Gloria Bey: And so, we have a negative $22,000. So, to begin the month of July, we're going to start out in hold. 161 00:17:46.410 --> 00:18:01.380 Gloria Bey: With negative 22,000. We project out in July, and this is pretty accurate, because I've gone through, looked at your summary of finance, and looked at some of the July information. So this is… this should be pretty accurate for July, $133,000. 162 00:18:01.380 --> 00:18:14.609 Gloria Bey: And then your expenses, they are projected out. They've been hitting pretty close to about $110,000, $112, so we put $110,000 here, and you'll wind up with a negative balance of a negative $62,000 at the end of July. 163 00:18:15.010 --> 00:18:29.770 Gloria Bey: August, we received a summary of Finance report for August, stating that your foundation would be $88,000, your ASF is going to be $5,621, so we know those are the two largest amounts, and that they are correct. 164 00:18:29.830 --> 00:18:49.289 Gloria Bey: These others are estimates right here, but we estimate about $128,000. So, when you come down to the end of August, ending your school year, we project that'll be about $107… a negative $107,000. Now, that number can change and be lowered once, 165 00:18:49.550 --> 00:19:02.200 Gloria Bey: Region 11 is notified of those checks that are not really outstanding, but need to be voided, and when they do void that, it's kind of like it would help to decrease this amount here, the bottom line amount. 166 00:19:04.300 --> 00:19:05.250 Gloria Bey: You hay? 167 00:19:07.660 --> 00:19:11.190 Gloria Bey: So, we're looking at the projected revenue loss. 168 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:26.509 Gloria Bey: In February, February 10th, there was a summary of finance report that was submitted, and it showed what they had projected that your foundation monies and your ASF money would be for the year. 169 00:19:26.510 --> 00:19:37.739 Gloria Bey: They had projected $1.3 million for your foundation, they projected $93,000 for your ASF, with a total of $1.4 million. That's what they had projected in February. 170 00:19:39.220 --> 00:19:40.850 Gloria Bey: Oops, oops, oops. 171 00:19:41.410 --> 00:19:58.690 Gloria Bey: It's a little sensitive. So when we look at our changes in the summary of finance revenues, this is the bar for February the 10th. So February 10th, 1.3 they said you would receive for the year, $93,000 for the ASF, and in total will be $1.4 million. 172 00:19:58.710 --> 00:20:09.819 Gloria Bey: In June, there was another summary of Finance report that was issued. It said, okay, this is what you're going to receive for the remainder of the year, in total. So, they lowered it to $1.2 million. 173 00:20:09.980 --> 00:20:29.670 Gloria Bey: on your foundation. And then your ASF, they increased that to $97,000, with a total of $1.3 million, which is a total of $101,157 reduction. So they reduced you about $100,000, almost the amount of a payroll. 174 00:20:33.860 --> 00:20:52.240 Gloria Bey: Some of the key challenges are your enrollment and your attendance. And so, your enrollment and your attendance has declined, which has resulted in a revenue shortage of about $35,000 over the past 10 months. So, pretty much on a monthly basis, you're short, like, $35,000. 175 00:20:52.240 --> 00:21:05.640 Gloria Bey: There's no cash reserves, that's one of the challenges you have that's threatening your operations, if no action is taken. And then your fixed expenses, like your staffs, salaries, your mortgage, that's fence. 176 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:16.559 Gloria Bey: fix. It remains largely unchanged, despite the revenue decline, if no adjustments are made. And as I will state later, adjustments are being made by the superintendent. 177 00:21:18.040 --> 00:21:32.410 Gloria Bey: Strategies for your financial stabilization, if you increase your enrollment, and of course, increase in enrollment means increase in state funding, so that's a given. So, with the decline in enrollment, there's been a decline in state revenue. 178 00:21:32.410 --> 00:21:53.650 Gloria Bey: And so, the next one is to launch a targeted marketing campaign. And the superintendent, she's already hiring an employee who's going to recruit for new enrollment as a percentage of her time. So, the full percentage of her time is not in the classroom. A portion of the time is going to be working to market to get more kids into the school, which is a great idea. 179 00:21:53.650 --> 00:21:59.710 Gloria Bey: And also, we have, offer incentives, for new enrollments and increased attendance. 180 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:06.870 Gloria Bey: So, many times, you can offer different incentives. I've seen where school districts, they have offered, like. 181 00:22:06.870 --> 00:22:30.810 Gloria Bey: bicycles to kids who, had perfect attendance. They were all being a drawn, and they'll draw the name, and one kid wouldn't a bicycle. And that bicycle was donated by one of the vendors. It could be Walmart, it could be Targeted to somebody, but they donated that bicycle, and in essence, they received, you know, free marketing that, hey, Walmart gave a bicycle, for perfect attendance. 182 00:22:30.900 --> 00:22:38.010 Gloria Bey: to the Montessori Academy. So, it's different things like that that I've seen school districts utilize in order to increase their attendance. 183 00:22:38.090 --> 00:22:47.799 Gloria Bey: And then the next one is find grants that can pay a proportion of the salaries, and the superintendent, she's identified individuals whose salaries can be paid from grant funds. So, … 184 00:22:47.870 --> 00:22:58.879 Gloria Bey: We met on that, and she told me about some of the grants that she had, and so some of those employees will be moved from your 420 fund into some of the grant funds, a portion of their salaries. 185 00:23:03.930 --> 00:23:04.630 Gloria Bey: Okay. 186 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:14.450 Gloria Bey: So next, we're looking at cost containment. How can we contain the cost until we actually receive in either more enrollment. 187 00:23:14.450 --> 00:23:34.719 Gloria Bey: increase attendance, or just receive more funding. So we can temporarily reduce the non-essential expenditures, and the superintendent had already told me about how that she had reduced some of the clean expenses that could be done by staff, the lawn care, different things that she has already reduced to try to get some of the non-essential expenses down. 188 00:23:34.800 --> 00:23:47.819 Gloria Bey: Also, I was informed that the board had voted to reduce the school's contribution to the health insurance of… from $300 a month per employee to $225, which is great. $75 a month per employee, that is a savings. 189 00:23:47.900 --> 00:23:52.100 Gloria Bey: Also, considering some of the staffing adjustments. 190 00:23:52.100 --> 00:24:09.999 Gloria Bey: From what I was told, is that some of the staff, I think he had about 4 staff members, who were not replaced this year. I think 2 were not replaced, and two were replaced. The two who were replaced, they came in a lower rate, which means that's a savings to, the school as well. 191 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:13.230 Gloria Bey: So some of those staff adjustments have been done. 192 00:24:13.230 --> 00:24:17.109 Gloria Bey: And then, negotiate some of the payment terms. 193 00:24:17.110 --> 00:24:33.680 Gloria Bey: With vendors and service providers, which the superintendent has already told me that she has already talked with some of the vendors, and they're working with them on letting them maybe pay a lesser amount until the cash flow does increase, and then they can finally pay off that particular bill. 194 00:24:36.790 --> 00:24:55.189 Gloria Bey: So, when we go to diversifying revenue, I think I've already mentioned, like, pursuing additional grants and local funding. Some of those grants could possibly be with some of the foundations. They sometimes give grants. I know the Meadows Foundations, they fund a lot of different school districts with grants. 195 00:24:55.270 --> 00:25:04.180 Gloria Bey: partner with community organizations for different types of sponsorships, which I had spoken about, sponsoring bicycles and things of that nature. 196 00:25:04.560 --> 00:25:18.390 Gloria Bey: The school already partners with a local daycare center to receive students. That's one of the things, a lot of them have after-school daycare, so they already sponsor, they already work with a local daycare center, and that is to phone students into the school. 197 00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:36.810 Gloria Bey: And also, rental of facilities, that's a way to bring in revenue, and they're already renting to a local church and a daycare center, and possibly, maybe the person who is marketing for more enrollment can work on increasing the rentals in the facilities, and that'll be more revenue as well. 198 00:25:39.950 --> 00:25:59.669 Gloria Bey: So, in conclusion, the immediate focus on stabilizing enrollment and controlling expenses, that's the immediate thing that we have right now. That's already been started by the superintendent, and we should see some of those changes in September. Some of those will go into effect as far as those salaries with some of those grants. They should go into effect in September. 199 00:25:59.690 --> 00:26:21.769 Gloria Bey: And also, at fundraisers, some of the schools, they are doing fundraisers, they're bringing in a fund, and if they have fundraisers, they need the board to be proactively engaged in fundraising efforts, and, you know, targeting some groups or some people that the board might know to encourage them to actually participate in the fundraising effort for the school. 200 00:26:21.770 --> 00:26:46.719 Gloria Bey: Also, what's really important is the regular monitoring, and transparent reporting are essential. I mean, this includes budget to actual, reporting to the board, which you need to see on a regular basis, and not only just your budget to actual, because your cash position as well, because sometimes you can look at your budget to actual, and you… in your mind, you're thinking, oh yeah, we have funds, but in reality, you don't. So you actually need to be seeing the 201 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:54.839 Gloria Bey: cash position of the school, so you can stay informed as to what your position is, as far as cash. 202 00:26:54.840 --> 00:27:18.240 Gloria Bey: And then also, once we clear up those outstanding checks, we'll know the exact balance that's in the bank account, and Ms. Idaho is already working with Samantha on that to get that cleared up, and hopefully that'll be cleared up prior to the audit, because that's my recommendation, because when the auditor comes in, he's going to actually take the balance that's in your general ledger as your cash balance, and you don't really want that if you have 203 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:22.170 Gloria Bey: Erroneous things in your cash balance that could make it look better. 204 00:27:22.360 --> 00:27:27.459 Gloria Bey: And that was the end of my presentation. If you have any questions or anything, let me know. 205 00:27:30.870 --> 00:27:33.849 Troy Gardner: Thank you, Ms. Bay. 206 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:40.959 Troy Gardner: Ms. Joyce, I think we have you. You should be here by now. You have me, Sandyanne? 207 00:27:43.530 --> 00:27:44.930 Sukai Durosimi: Yes, she's here. 208 00:27:45.230 --> 00:27:52.830 Troy Gardner: Okay, great. Alrighty, I'm gonna open it up. Dr. Webb, you have any questions? Ms. George, you have any questions for Ms. Beck? 209 00:27:54.570 --> 00:27:58.410 Sukai Durosimi: That was… she was extremely thorough. I'm good. 210 00:27:59.540 --> 00:28:00.310 Gloria Bey: Okay. 211 00:28:00.310 --> 00:28:05.590 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: No, I do not have any questions. Well, I do have one question. 212 00:28:05.590 --> 00:28:07.260 Gloria Bey: Okay. So…. 213 00:28:09.040 --> 00:28:12.740 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: I know the answer, but… Maybe I don't. 214 00:28:12.890 --> 00:28:16.489 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: So, say this doesn't improve in the next month or two. 215 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:23.659 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: What do you say the worst case scenario is, and the timeline for the worst-case scenario? 216 00:28:28.120 --> 00:28:43.340 Gloria Bey: Can't really give you the timeline for the worst case scenario, because you were at 109 kids, and I think I just heard Ms. Sukai say that there's a number who did not show up, and then there's a number who won't be coming. 217 00:28:45.080 --> 00:28:54.389 Gloria Bey: it's going to be… how can I put it? Slim. Because right now, and this is what's really concerning me, is right now. 218 00:28:54.580 --> 00:28:56.120 Gloria Bey: There is no cash. 219 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:07.630 Gloria Bey: So, right now, you're operating… you know how you're driving on fumes, and that's what you're driving on right now. You're driving with fumes. And… 220 00:29:08.860 --> 00:29:20.739 Gloria Bey: I've thought of different things, possibly, like, I had mentioned a line of credit just to get you through until that time, but right now, a line of credit is a temporary. 221 00:29:20.740 --> 00:29:29.939 Gloria Bey: a fix, and they expect payment very quickly, because normally you get a line of credit, say, okay, I expect my money coming in on the 25th, it'll come in on the 25th, and then I'll pay the bank. 222 00:29:30.110 --> 00:29:35.509 Gloria Bey: But that is not the case here. We need some type of reserve, and 223 00:29:35.620 --> 00:29:40.759 Gloria Bey: I'm just gonna be honest with you, I just can't tell you what the timeline is. 224 00:29:40.990 --> 00:29:48.520 Gloria Bey: It will come to the point that the lesser and lesser number of kids mean you need to dwindle and dwindle your stress. 225 00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:52.270 Gloria Bey: Because payroll is your largest expense that you have. 226 00:29:52.630 --> 00:29:53.200 Sukai Durosimi: Hmm. 227 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:54.300 Gloria Bey: … 228 00:29:54.570 --> 00:30:03.749 Gloria Bey: And to be honest, I do not see where really your funding that you receive is funding the kids that you have in the classroom. 229 00:30:05.590 --> 00:30:12.659 Gloria Bey: So what the ideal situation is, the funding that I receive is really funding those kids sitting in those chairs. 230 00:30:13.020 --> 00:30:16.970 Gloria Bey: And if you can't give the kids to sit in the chairs, it reduces your funding. 231 00:30:17.520 --> 00:30:24.049 Gloria Bey: So, not only is it the enrollment, but we gotta convince the parents and the kids they gotta come to school. 232 00:30:24.430 --> 00:30:28.820 Gloria Bey: Some of them might be legitimately ill, but, … 233 00:30:29.030 --> 00:30:36.570 Gloria Bey: 9 times out of 10, a lot of those kids are staying home, not because they're ill, because they don't want to come to school, or the parents didn't want to get there. One of the two. 234 00:30:37.900 --> 00:30:48.309 Gloria Bey: I kind of partially answered it, but I can't give you an exact date, or say… I can't say in the month of October, if y'all don't increase, you're gonna shut your doors. I can't say that. 235 00:30:49.150 --> 00:30:49.759 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Fair enough. 236 00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:50.600 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: No, thank you. 237 00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:54.860 Gloria Bey: All I can tell you is the facts, and that is, you have no money right now. 238 00:30:55.700 --> 00:30:58.390 Troy Gardner: Have you been in situations like this before? 239 00:30:58.390 --> 00:30:59.340 Gloria Bey: No, sir. 240 00:30:59.620 --> 00:31:02.409 Troy Gardner: Okay, so you've never seen this happen before with a school? 241 00:31:02.410 --> 00:31:04.770 Gloria Bey: No, sir, not this close to it. 242 00:31:05.110 --> 00:31:06.050 Troy Gardner: Gotcha. 243 00:31:13.030 --> 00:31:14.410 Troy Gardner: Any other questions? 244 00:31:23.390 --> 00:31:31.959 Troy Gardner: Okay, so, … I know you said we would have to reduce staff. Do we have a… 245 00:31:32.540 --> 00:31:41.729 Troy Gardner: a breakdown on the student-to-staff ratio, and what… what… what we may need to reduce if we get to that point, Ms. Durasemi? 246 00:31:42.670 --> 00:31:50.870 Sukai Durosimi: I can get the student-to-staff ratio for you. I can email it to the board. 247 00:31:53.930 --> 00:32:00.560 Sukai Durosimi: But currently, I would say we have… So, if I look at… 248 00:32:00.890 --> 00:32:08.110 Sukai Durosimi: Teachers that are not directly teaching a student and people that are outside of the classroom. 249 00:32:08.550 --> 00:32:12.140 Sukai Durosimi: I would say we have a PE teacher. 250 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:22.710 Sukai Durosimi: who's right now actually in a classroom, because our first grade teacher had, emergency surgery, so we have to pull the PE teacher in. 251 00:32:22.840 --> 00:32:30.680 Sukai Durosimi: We have one person that's a TA, but actually working as a… to help with enrollment. 252 00:32:31.210 --> 00:32:37.049 Sukai Durosimi: We have Ms. Keisha that does PEMS, but also is an enrichment person. 253 00:32:37.740 --> 00:32:52.120 Sukai Durosimi: And then you have myself, Ms. Jofe, and Ms. Ida. So we have 7 people that are outside of the classroom, but all those 7 people also have 2 or 3 departments. 254 00:32:52.120 --> 00:32:57.200 Troy Gardner: Absolutely. So, based on the recommendations and the adjustments. 255 00:32:58.010 --> 00:32:58.620 Sukai Durosimi: That…. 256 00:32:58.620 --> 00:33:03.250 Troy Gardner: that you are doing, do we have a projection on what it looks like? 257 00:33:03.610 --> 00:33:06.420 Troy Gardner: Based on… because I noticed that, … 258 00:33:07.150 --> 00:33:11.199 Troy Gardner: As part of the plan, there was a plan to kind of reduce some things. 259 00:33:11.690 --> 00:33:17.300 Troy Gardner: What impact would that have, Ms. Bay, based on… can you kind of project 260 00:33:17.950 --> 00:33:24.970 Troy Gardner: How much that can reduce it down to. I know you don't want to start losing students, of course, that's the worst case scenario. 261 00:33:25.090 --> 00:33:28.639 Gloria Bey: But even with the adjustments that we're making. 262 00:33:29.010 --> 00:33:32.479 Troy Gardner: How does the overall number look? 263 00:33:33.570 --> 00:33:52.380 Gloria Bey: I don't have the details on what all of these other, savings would do for your projection, but Ms. Lusukai was telling me about some of the salaries being moved over to some of the title grants, and I think we came up with over $80,000. I think it was over $80,000. 264 00:33:52.420 --> 00:33:53.350 Troy Gardner: Okay. 265 00:33:54.070 --> 00:33:55.989 Gloria Bey: And that's for the year. 266 00:33:56.850 --> 00:33:58.940 Gloria Bey: … That's anything. 267 00:33:58.940 --> 00:33:59.940 Troy Gardner: You're okay. 268 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:01.179 Troy Gardner: No, no. 269 00:34:01.180 --> 00:34:02.619 Gloria Bey: for us in September. 270 00:34:02.620 --> 00:34:09.240 Troy Gardner: Yeah, you answered it, because I think the projection you had was, what did we say, about 100? 271 00:34:09.449 --> 00:34:10.709 Gloria Bey: 107. 272 00:34:10.710 --> 00:34:15.600 Troy Gardner: 107, based on about a 30… almost a $30,000. 273 00:34:16.210 --> 00:34:18.209 Gloria Bey: Yeah, about 35. 274 00:34:18.489 --> 00:34:19.259 Troy Gardner: Okay. 275 00:34:19.580 --> 00:34:21.439 Gloria Bey: I'm short about $35 a month. 276 00:34:21.620 --> 00:34:29.590 Troy Gardner: So… Taken 80 from… We're definitely a reserve, and I'm… I'm counting pendants at this point. 277 00:34:29.860 --> 00:34:30.620 Gloria Bey: Yep. 278 00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:43.809 Troy Gardner: $80,000 from $107… okay, about 20… about $30,000, okay, okay. That's if you were to move those… if those salaries qualify for a grant. That would put us at about $30,000. 279 00:34:44.090 --> 00:34:56.229 Troy Gardner: One thing we do know is we do know we would… we could possibly be in this situation going in. We kind of saw this last year, and we knew that we would have to have an aggressive plan 280 00:34:56.340 --> 00:34:57.620 Troy Gardner: to, … 281 00:34:57.980 --> 00:35:06.319 Troy Gardner: to kind of move forward. So… so thank you for… for laying it out, and kind of putting it out there. We kind of know where we're starting at, at this point. 282 00:35:06.550 --> 00:35:10.829 Troy Gardner: And, it's just a matter of, working to get there. 283 00:35:11.890 --> 00:35:31.720 Gloria Bey: And one of the things… one of the things that's needed, what I was speaking about was, it's kind of like your budget, when you set up your budget and your expenses, so you have your revenue and you have your expenses. A lot of people are developing deficit budgets, which I see in this next year, your deficit's a lot lower than what you had in the prior year. 284 00:35:31.720 --> 00:35:46.470 Gloria Bey: But the only… the way that you can mainly put any type of reserves is that your expenses are going to have to be less than the revenue that you bring in, and then possibly put some in reserves. That's the only way you're going to build up your reserves unless you have somebody give you a huge donation or something. 285 00:35:46.610 --> 00:35:49.660 Troy Gardner: That's right. Unless you have done, you're absolutely right. 286 00:35:51.160 --> 00:35:51.889 Gloria Bey: Yes, ma'am. 287 00:35:51.890 --> 00:35:58.580 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: My question… this is probably for Mrs. Durasemi. So… 288 00:35:59.890 --> 00:36:10.680 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: So I'm always thinking… and granted, I'm very positive about it, but I'm also, you know, I think realistically as well. Is there a… 289 00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.400 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: plan for… 290 00:36:13.530 --> 00:36:22.599 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Cutting… if you have to cut teachers, do you have kind of, like, an outline on what order in which that would go, or how that could work? 291 00:36:24.010 --> 00:36:41.770 Sukai Durosimi: So, I thought about it. So for example, the math teacher resigned, and we didn't replace her. So, currently, we have one person that's teaching math and science, right? Which is also heavy, because 292 00:36:42.140 --> 00:36:50.590 Sukai Durosimi: 3rd through 5th grade, well, 4th and 5th grade is a star… it's a star area, right? And science is a star area. 293 00:36:50.910 --> 00:37:00.510 Sukai Durosimi: Second grade currently has, I think, maybe 14 students, so at first, we were like, okay, well, maybe we can… 294 00:37:00.660 --> 00:37:03.630 Sukai Durosimi: Merge first and second. 295 00:37:03.780 --> 00:37:11.459 Sukai Durosimi: But knowing your demographics, too, is important, because if I had merged the first and second grade class together. 296 00:37:11.640 --> 00:37:23.079 Sukai Durosimi: I think some of those first grade parents would have pulled their kids, and… which will give us less kids, then we're back to where we are, so I had to… right now, I think we have… 297 00:37:23.260 --> 00:37:29.330 Sukai Durosimi: about… let me see, I can tell you how much we have… how many students we have in… 298 00:37:30.270 --> 00:37:31.860 Sukai Durosimi: First grade… 299 00:37:32.750 --> 00:37:40.429 Sukai Durosimi: So, in first grade, we have 19 kids, and really, the number to hit is always going to be… 300 00:37:40.660 --> 00:37:48.600 Sukai Durosimi: 22 to 24, right? So right now, most of our numbers in our grade levels, except for 301 00:37:48.720 --> 00:37:57.219 Sukai Durosimi: pre-K and K, which can be combined, everybody's sitting less than 22, so first grade is 19, 302 00:37:57.340 --> 00:38:05.769 Sukai Durosimi: Second is, I think, 12, because we're missing one kid there. Third is 16. Fourth is about… 303 00:38:06.150 --> 00:38:19.390 Sukai Durosimi: 15, 15 students, and 5th is 14 students. So, pre-K and K are sitting at, like, 30. It's the biggest class, because there's, like, 15 and 15 kids. 304 00:38:19.560 --> 00:38:29.479 Sukai Durosimi: So, I could have merged first and second, but if I made that decision, we would have probably lost some first grade parents. 305 00:38:30.510 --> 00:38:42.929 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: I know we kind of explored this before, and maybe if it's something to consider to revisit, even if you did have one teacher for first and second grade, somehow where there's a schedule that 306 00:38:42.970 --> 00:38:58.499 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Were there electives on one half, and the electives on the other half? I know that kind of probably looks different for first and second grade. I know they have kind of a weird schedule… scheduling and requirements, but, you know, something like that where a teacher would flip-flop. 307 00:38:58.500 --> 00:39:13.569 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: So that you necessarily didn't have first and second graders in the class at the same time, but they were the teacher of first and second grade. But I know that's a… that's a big thing to think about, but… because of all the dynamics that are needed, but just some things I'm just thinking… 308 00:39:13.780 --> 00:39:18.149 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Like, going forward, what could be some contingency plans? 309 00:39:18.900 --> 00:39:20.900 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: So, just thinking about that. 310 00:39:21.300 --> 00:39:29.710 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: And the likelihood that a parent would pull their kid after you start to before you start. So, those things too. So…. 311 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:30.700 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 312 00:39:36.700 --> 00:39:43.430 Troy Gardner: Alrighty, good. … Ms. Joyce, you have anything, any comments? 313 00:39:44.530 --> 00:39:47.730 Sukai Durosimi: No, I'm sitting here making lists of 314 00:39:48.130 --> 00:40:05.579 Sukai Durosimi: people that I want to snatch as being, doing some donor work, giving some monies, etc, etc, and that have organizations that are philanthropic organizations. Okay. So I… 315 00:40:06.510 --> 00:40:23.409 Sukai Durosimi: I mean, I've seen us at the very bottom, they've seen us pull together, so I'm not just frightened, frightened, and I know we can work, and I know… I don't know if you remember how many years ago it was where we had a person who was doing liaison work with the 316 00:40:23.410 --> 00:40:38.469 Sukai Durosimi: kids from home, you know, to get people in. I'm willing to do that. Don't have me pay, give me some foodness, let me go talk to the parents, and try to bring some of these kids back that are just kind of God knows where. 317 00:40:38.780 --> 00:40:39.710 Sukai Durosimi: … 318 00:40:40.100 --> 00:40:52.269 Sukai Durosimi: And like the kids say, you know, a lot of people are kind of frightened to go into those kind of situations. I'm not, and I'm wanting to do that and willing to do that. 319 00:40:56.050 --> 00:40:57.929 Sukai Durosimi: Oh, no, I, I, I… 320 00:40:58.130 --> 00:41:05.880 Sukai Durosimi: I like the… what she has come up with in terms of what we can do, and what Tsukai has come up with, and what we can do. We just have to do it. 321 00:41:14.390 --> 00:41:15.410 Troy Gardner: Alrighty. 322 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:20.129 Troy Gardner: Okay, thank you, Ms. Bay. 323 00:41:20.370 --> 00:41:21.460 Gloria Bey: Thank you. 324 00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:31.720 Troy Gardner: Okay, so, we don't have anything else. Just to bring you all up to speed, I don't know if you all received the email, but Mr. Jonathan did resign. 325 00:41:32.160 --> 00:41:39.009 Troy Gardner: His son… got accepted. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, Ms. Durasemi. 326 00:41:39.190 --> 00:41:42.130 Troy Gardner: I think they had been applying to get into a school. 327 00:41:43.310 --> 00:41:46.760 Troy Gardner: And… I think his duties have increased. 328 00:41:47.150 --> 00:41:49.550 Troy Gardner: So he had to step… step down. 329 00:41:50.550 --> 00:41:55.210 Troy Gardner: That's kind of the gist of what I read based on the message that you sent a few weeks ago. 330 00:41:55.620 --> 00:41:56.880 Sukai Durosimi: That is correct. 331 00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:00.629 Troy Gardner: Okay, so that's kind of why we don't have him here. 332 00:42:00.950 --> 00:42:07.989 Troy Gardner: We are actively looking for, Some additional people to serve. 333 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:12.020 Troy Gardner: On the board, so we can kind of move forward, but… 334 00:42:12.180 --> 00:42:15.319 Troy Gardner: What we have here is what we have today, so… 335 00:42:17.670 --> 00:42:20.720 Troy Gardner: We have some items that need to be approved. 336 00:42:21.100 --> 00:42:25.550 Troy Gardner: And of course, with that presentation, I know we have some budget amendments. 337 00:42:25.990 --> 00:42:31.380 Sukai Durosimi: So I'll go ahead, Ms. Dirasimi, and… because you have several items. 338 00:42:32.410 --> 00:42:34.000 Troy Gardner: And then consent items. 339 00:42:34.430 --> 00:42:39.839 Troy Gardner: If you'll go by one by one, and we'll just vote on each of them, I think you have at least… 340 00:42:40.890 --> 00:42:43.550 Troy Gardner: Let's see… about 7 items? 341 00:42:43.890 --> 00:42:44.380 Troy Gardner: that we. 342 00:42:44.380 --> 00:42:44.930 Sukai Durosimi: Yes. 343 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:45.840 Troy Gardner: We're gonna approve? 344 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:49.860 Troy Gardner: Do we have any more presentations? 345 00:42:50.420 --> 00:42:51.060 Troy Gardner: …. 346 00:42:51.060 --> 00:43:03.259 Sukai Durosimi: We have one from Ms. Jofei, and one from Ms. Ida. They're not cons… they're not, for consent, they're just presentations. 347 00:43:03.720 --> 00:43:08.789 Troy Gardner: Okay, are they there? Do you want to go ahead and let them present, and then we vote on the items? 348 00:43:08.850 --> 00:43:09.890 Sukai Durosimi: Oh, okay. 349 00:43:09.890 --> 00:43:14.779 Troy Gardner: All we have are the items that you have to present and for us to vote on. 350 00:43:15.080 --> 00:43:21.540 Troy Gardner: And, … And then you have their presentation. 351 00:43:22.670 --> 00:43:26.949 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, so you want them to do their presentations first, then the approval? Okay. 352 00:43:26.950 --> 00:43:30.159 Troy Gardner: Do their presentations, and then we'll do your items last. 353 00:43:30.160 --> 00:43:31.010 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 354 00:43:31.250 --> 00:43:34.550 Sukai Durosimi: All right. Ms. Jofer, you want to go? Okay. 355 00:43:36.520 --> 00:43:38.510 Sukai Durosimi: Just tell me when to scroll down. 356 00:43:39.420 --> 00:43:40.700 Sukai Durosimi: Good evening! 357 00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:41.880 Troy Gardner: Good evening. 358 00:43:42.650 --> 00:44:02.239 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, so, well, in the boardroom right now, all is… all of our anchor charts are up from our, back-to-school PD. So, I'll get a chance to take photos and upload those if you'd like to see them, but they are here. And we'll go ahead and go to the next, slide. You can actually probably… 359 00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:06.690 Sukai Durosimi: Just keep going, just keep going. I always have those in the beginning. Oops. 360 00:44:07.670 --> 00:44:30.320 Sukai Durosimi: And I'll just kind of walk you through some of the things that we did for back to school, and just where we are for the month of August, if that's okay. I'll just kind of stay there. Right. Right there. Thank you so much. So what we're working on strategically for the month of August, you can see on the screen, and all of this, these are things that have been already in the works that we've been planning on since, actually since 361 00:44:30.750 --> 00:44:50.739 Sukai Durosimi: second semester, last school year, leading up to back-to-school PD, so you can see some ideas and some things that we're already working on, and then going into September. Really, the month of August is about making sure that everybody, is really clear on instructional expectations. Our big focus is on customer service. 362 00:44:50.740 --> 00:45:03.649 Sukai Durosimi: Started from the front office, through the entire school, even through the dining hall, so we're all on the same page regarding what that needs to look, feel, and sound like for us, so that was a big push for our back-to-school PD. 363 00:45:03.660 --> 00:45:09.060 Sukai Durosimi: I have taken over Facebook, and … 364 00:45:09.510 --> 00:45:25.160 Sukai Durosimi: that's… I actually like that. So, I've been posting things on Facebook, doing some Facebook Lives, and posting our teachers doing some work, and now we'll start posting some of our students and things like that, and typically I post, I… 365 00:45:25.190 --> 00:45:44.850 Sukai Durosimi: post a lot, but I try to make sure the story is there at least once a week of showcasing the teachers, in action learning, and actually in action, implementing the work, and then, showcasing students as well. So that tends to be the… the trend in, for Facebook postings, so we'll keep that going. 366 00:45:45.020 --> 00:45:51.180 Sukai Durosimi: House Bill 1416. House Bill, that's the students who did not, 367 00:45:51.180 --> 00:46:15.680 Sukai Durosimi: who did not pass, STAR, and so that is something that, begins as well. SPED, ESL, vision, hearing, everything you see is all of the first, month of August, and then we roll into September. One of the things, and I think if you click on… if you scroll to the next one, Mr. Simon, if you don't mind, one of the things that we're doing this year on campus is the entire school 368 00:46:15.680 --> 00:46:40.610 Sukai Durosimi: The school has, a position in leadership, so we've divided up the school into academics, leadership, and culture, and every staff member has assigned themselves to a committee. So everything that you saw on that list for August and September is not just Joe Fay being in charge of, we're all having our hands in it, and there's some things I'm overseeing 369 00:46:40.610 --> 00:46:58.300 Sukai Durosimi: and some things I'm directing, but every staff member is involved, and that's part of that collaboration and delegation that we're working on, and also that work-life balance. And so it's allowing me to start training staff members, to take on the 370 00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:14.360 Sukai Durosimi: some positions, some things we're doing on campus. So, that actually has seemed to be the most popular thing that we're doing right now, as far as, making sure that everybody has an understanding of what we're doing to… to move our school. So, this is… 371 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:18.950 Sukai Durosimi: This is what we call the Actions Team Calendar, and so it's set up for each month. 372 00:47:18.970 --> 00:47:43.269 Sukai Durosimi: And, and so it's color-coded by the committees and who's doing what, and then every staff meeting is a part of us collaborating and making sure we're all on the same page, but it's that big focus of customer service, with me servicing the staff and the staff servicing in the classroom. So, and that… that was one of our big topics for Back to School PD. So, and that was part of what you can see up here in the room, as well. 373 00:47:43.370 --> 00:47:44.659 Sukai Durosimi: Other than spring. 374 00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:51.460 Sukai Durosimi: So, if you were to click… if you click on the back-to-school PD, I think it should pop up. 375 00:47:53.040 --> 00:47:54.180 Sukai Durosimi: Hopefully. 376 00:47:55.900 --> 00:48:20.489 Sukai Durosimi: So this is an example of how, part of our conversation that we had at Back to School PD also is about sparking curiosity in the classroom. So, how can we bring the TEEKS alive in a whole different way? So, I kicked it off by, instead of the normal agenda, I created a flipbook, and it was a story that the teachers were able to read, coming back to, school. So. 377 00:48:20.490 --> 00:48:33.060 Sukai Durosimi: If I'm asking them to do it, I'm modeling that, and so we're looking at different strategies as far as how we can spark curiosity and engagement in the classroom in an authentic way that aligns with our TEEKS. 378 00:48:33.060 --> 00:48:38.470 Sukai Durosimi: We started off back-to-school PD, having two trainers come in. 379 00:48:38.470 --> 00:48:56.049 Sukai Durosimi: That focused on research-based strategies for math and for reading, which was, really good for us to have as well. And so that, so this is just an example of something that, if I'm asking them to do it, I'm showing them what it looks like. So I actually really enjoyed my little flipbook, so I was really excited about that. 380 00:48:56.170 --> 00:49:03.040 Sukai Durosimi: And then if you scroll down… I don't have to play these two videos, but I did drop two videos for you to see. 381 00:49:03.070 --> 00:49:27.509 Sukai Durosimi: the work that was happening during Back to School PD on the left-hand side was our safety training, and on the right-hand side, the staff and I actually took a field trip to the Wellman Project, where we were given a free professional development on how to spark curiosity in the classroom. We had a wonderful time there, and then, … and then the staff was actually allowed to shop for 382 00:49:27.510 --> 00:49:49.459 Sukai Durosimi: free, which Wellman does that anyway, but they don't normally open on Mondays, so they were able to allow us to come over, and the staff was able to shop and buy items for their classroom and for their lessons to bring their lessons alive. So that was a lot of fun for us to do that together. So that's what those two videos are there for you to get a chance to see the staff. 383 00:49:52.140 --> 00:49:58.429 Sukai Durosimi: This is our, our mantra here, every staff member comes in excellent. 384 00:49:58.430 --> 00:50:20.440 Sukai Durosimi: Or they're, they're going to make sure everything has excellence. Midway through, we will check ourselves to make sure we're staying on top of what we're supposed to be doing, having joy, and at the end of the day, did we grow 1%? So, any staff member you ask, how did you come in today? They're supposed to say, excellent, I'm checking myself throughout the day, and I'm going to have 1% at the end of each day. 385 00:50:22.050 --> 00:50:30.120 Sukai Durosimi: This is an example of a graph that the staff and I discussed as far as how we can work with 386 00:50:30.140 --> 00:50:49.769 Sukai Durosimi: getting our students to a place where they are starting to take ownership of their own learning. So the first step is that doing piece, and that's usually when you have the teacher teaching, and the student just kind of copies it down, and that's it. So the second step is justifying where the student actually has to show their work. 387 00:50:49.770 --> 00:51:12.489 Sukai Durosimi: The third step is explaining. Can the student actually go up to the board and explain correctly, based off of the fact that they actually showed their work to their teacher? So no student is allowed to go to the board without showing the teacher the work that they actually completed at their desk first, then they can go up. Because a lot of times we'll let kids go up, but they're not able to explain, and they haven't taken the time to do the work. 388 00:51:12.620 --> 00:51:37.620 Sukai Durosimi: And then the next step is, if a student is able to explain, now can they teach another student? We do not want students teaching each other anything that's not correct. And then the last step is, once the student is able to actually, justify showing their work, explaining, and teaching, now, can the student take that and make that into real world, or can they actually change the whole problem, now based off 389 00:51:37.620 --> 00:51:48.889 Sukai Durosimi: of their learning. So, every classroom is aware of this process that I need to see them do. Third, fourth, and fifth, what they're going to do is actually ask students 390 00:51:48.890 --> 00:52:03.309 Sukai Durosimi: To, mark where they are every day on the accountability chart, because this is supposed to also help them build stamina as they are working towards, you know, the assessment at the end of the year. 391 00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:23.330 Sukai Durosimi: And, these are some goals that, I met with the staff about and said, these are the four goals that I have, so they can understand the why behind all the instructional and behavioral and social-emotional things that we're doing on campus. And, of course, each goal has the action steps listed underneath them. 392 00:52:23.330 --> 00:52:27.199 Sukai Durosimi: And, so every staff member received those. We can go to the next one. 393 00:52:27.900 --> 00:52:39.109 Sukai Durosimi: And, these are some of the highlighted things that we're looking at on the instructional end. These are not all of them, but these are some of the few things there. And then, if you go to the next one… 394 00:52:40.330 --> 00:53:00.460 Sukai Durosimi: And then it stops right there. So, I just gave you just a highlight of where we are from, the summer up through back-to-school PD, and what we're doing for the month of August leading into September. So, just by glance of looking at the staff today, I was telling Mr. Simi, the staff worked really, really hard today. 395 00:53:00.460 --> 00:53:25.240 Sukai Durosimi: And they worked hard in a whole different way, though. You could tell that they were really focused on making sure that the kids had, a really good experience, but you can also see that push behind that customer service that we want to have, because they understand where we are as a school, that we're trying to make sure that our students are, coming to school, they want to come to school, the staff wants to come to school as well. 396 00:53:25.250 --> 00:53:47.600 Sukai Durosimi: And that, and that we're all bearing the weight together, but in a good way, not in a negative way. That was one thing I wanted to make sure of. We did not pound over their head during back-to-school PD about that at all. We, we just had a really good time as adults learning in the room, and really excited to see these kids come back. So, that's, that's the presentation, fast and furious there. 397 00:53:47.630 --> 00:53:50.300 Sukai Durosimi: Any questions for me? 398 00:53:53.700 --> 00:53:56.760 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: No, thank you for your hard work, Ms. Jofei. 399 00:53:56.920 --> 00:53:58.910 Sukai Durosimi: You're welcome. Thank you. 400 00:53:59.980 --> 00:54:02.229 Troy Gardner: Always high energy, that's good. 401 00:54:02.230 --> 00:54:07.960 Sukai Durosimi: I'm even wearing yellow tonight to match the yellow brick road. 402 00:54:08.540 --> 00:54:09.760 Sukai Durosimi: Thank you, guys. 403 00:54:10.420 --> 00:54:13.570 Troy Gardner: Thank you so much. Miss Ida, you have some big shoes to fill. 404 00:54:14.350 --> 00:54:15.700 Sukai Durosimi: I'm sorry? 405 00:54:15.720 --> 00:54:17.180 Troy Gardner: Here's the bill. 406 00:54:17.670 --> 00:54:32.800 Sukai Durosimi: I know, I always do. All right, so my presentation is on the new HB2 teacher retention allotment. It's being called TRA. 407 00:54:33.070 --> 00:54:48.309 Sukai Durosimi: The new teacher retention allotment is basically… it's a comprehensive school finance bill that is supporting students by infusing more dollars and resources, basically, to get teachers, retain them, and keep them in the classrooms. 408 00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:54.440 Sukai Durosimi: We've, attended a webinar from our lawyers to… 409 00:54:54.710 --> 00:55:14.310 Sukai Durosimi: emphasize the differences in how this allotment should be expensed. You'll see the different, on the bottom of the presentation, the different areas that they're going to be targeting. We obviously have some areas that we wouldn't apply for, but our basic allotment for the TRA is for teachers. 410 00:55:14.310 --> 00:55:17.189 Sukai Durosimi: If you can go to the next one, Ms. Terson. Thank you. 411 00:55:17.990 --> 00:55:21.059 Sukai Durosimi: So, basically, the way they have, 412 00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:41.800 Sukai Durosimi: funded it out is funding for schools with more than 5,000 plus students, obviously bigger ISDs or charters. Any teachers that are years 3 and 4 would receive a $2,500 increase to their base salary, and anybody years 5 plus would receive $5,000. 413 00:55:41.800 --> 00:55:43.450 Sukai Durosimi: To their base salary. 414 00:55:43.450 --> 00:55:55.610 Sukai Durosimi: So, funding for schools with less than 5 students, which is ours, or us, they… the teachers with years 3 and 4 would be $4,000, and years 5 plus would be $8,000. 415 00:55:56.200 --> 00:56:04.210 Sukai Durosimi: So, as you can see, there's a heavier weight on schools that have less than 5,000 students to do that funding. 416 00:56:04.370 --> 00:56:08.429 Sukai Durosimi: The funding is set to begin September 2025. 417 00:56:08.970 --> 00:56:09.710 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 418 00:56:11.610 --> 00:56:16.900 Sukai Durosimi: So basically, currently, we have 4 eligible teachers that will get the TRA. 419 00:56:17.150 --> 00:56:20.329 Sukai Durosimi: They all have 5-plus years of experience. 420 00:56:20.640 --> 00:56:31.530 Sukai Durosimi: Do not have to be certified teachers. That was something that was let… that they did explain to us on the webinar. They just have to be in the Code 80 role, which is a teacher role. 421 00:56:31.770 --> 00:56:50.240 Sukai Durosimi: So the teachers that we have currently, the four, had already received races that were approved by the board, so TEA will approve the balance of the TRA being given to these teachers. So, basically, these teachers all fall under the $8,000 funding for them. 422 00:56:50.740 --> 00:56:59.360 Sukai Durosimi: So teachers will receive this raise during the 25-26 school year, with their new salary starting in September 2025. 423 00:56:59.740 --> 00:57:07.420 Sukai Durosimi: The balance of what was already given to them will be what is given to them as part of the TRA allotment. 424 00:57:07.670 --> 00:57:17.519 Sukai Durosimi: Funding for TEA raises will… obviously, I'm sorry I put it again, would start in September 2025, and the funding will be given by TEA at that time. 425 00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:31.619 Sukai Durosimi: And this is separate, this new stream funding is separate from TIA, which is the teacher incentive allotment, where the amounts are based on the teacher's level of mastery. We have one teacher right now that will be receiving one in August. 426 00:57:33.010 --> 00:57:33.690 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 427 00:57:33.860 --> 00:57:34.830 Sukai Durosimi: Questions? 428 00:57:39.250 --> 00:57:40.490 Sukai Durosimi: Yep. 429 00:57:41.320 --> 00:57:42.970 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: No, no questions for me. 430 00:57:43.210 --> 00:57:46.890 Troy Gardner: For me, I'm sorry, I hit… I'm… Hit the mute button. 431 00:57:47.200 --> 00:57:48.370 Troy Gardner: Oh, cool. Oh, sorry. 432 00:57:48.640 --> 00:57:49.740 Troy Gardner: Thank you, Ms. Ida. 433 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:51.910 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, no worries, thank you. 434 00:57:54.200 --> 00:57:56.959 Troy Gardner: Alrighty, so Ms. Dear Jamie, you're up. 435 00:57:56.960 --> 00:58:00.779 Sukai Durosimi: Yes, yes, here we go, with all the approvals. 436 00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:03.660 Troy Gardner: on and off the camera, so I'm listening. 437 00:58:03.960 --> 00:58:12.469 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, well, we… I guess we can start with the easy one first, which is our 2526 partners. … 438 00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:31.180 Sukai Durosimi: We… every year, I reach out to UNT, TWU, Texas Westland, and UTA to see if they'll be willing to partner with us, and I send them an agreement. This year, we're getting one student teacher from UTA, is it one or two? 439 00:58:31.640 --> 00:58:40.469 Sukai Durosimi: I think it's two teachers from UTA. One will start in the fall, the other will start in the spring. So far, we have no one from… 440 00:58:40.610 --> 00:58:45.010 Sukai Durosimi: TWU, and of course, right now, none from… 441 00:58:45.390 --> 00:59:05.299 Sukai Durosimi: UNT. With UNT, the partnership was to see, because they have a counseling and mental health department, was to see whether they'll be willing to send one of their graduate students to us. I did apply on time, but no one has chosen East Fort Worth yet, so… 442 00:59:05.300 --> 00:59:08.130 Sukai Durosimi: I'm still hopeful that they will choose 443 00:59:08.130 --> 00:59:25.759 Sukai Durosimi: choose them. So these are one of the things, that when I look through what needs to be approved by the board, is for the board to approve that, yes, the board agrees and supports the school partnering with, different universities 444 00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:40.140 Sukai Durosimi: For different items that we need. And it also just supports us with a budget. For example, instead of hiring an extra TA, we'll have these, student teachers that will come in in the fall and spring to support lower elementary. 445 00:59:41.830 --> 00:59:46.159 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Mrs. Durasemi, have you, looked into Tarleton State University for that? 446 00:59:46.600 --> 00:59:48.509 Sukai Durosimi: No, I have not. 447 00:59:48.910 --> 00:59:53.259 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: They're… they're a really good option. They have a very rigorous program. I was, … 448 00:59:54.180 --> 01:00:01.000 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: I worked for them for a couple of years to supervise their student teachers, so that's a… 449 01:00:01.140 --> 01:00:10.250 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: they have a really rigorous program, and those… those teachers would come in if they could connect, you know. But it may be just an option going forward to look into them as well. 450 01:00:10.570 --> 01:00:15.599 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, do you happen to have, like, a contact that I could probably reach out to? 451 01:00:16.330 --> 01:00:21.060 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Let me look and see. I've been out of there a couple of years, but I can, I can check and see. 452 01:00:21.240 --> 01:00:25.460 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, I can also go to their website and go to their College of Education. 453 01:00:25.680 --> 01:00:27.200 Sukai Durosimi: And I'll look that up. 454 01:00:27.200 --> 01:00:27.960 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Okay. 455 01:00:29.250 --> 01:00:30.440 Sukai Durosimi: Thank you. 456 01:00:31.340 --> 01:00:33.900 Sukai Durosimi: Mr. Gardner, do you want me to present 457 01:00:34.190 --> 01:00:38.280 Sukai Durosimi: Everything, and then approve, or do you want to approve one at a time? 458 01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:41.920 Troy Gardner: Let's do one at a time, since they're all items. 459 01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:42.610 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 460 01:00:42.610 --> 01:00:43.510 Troy Gardner: … 461 01:00:43.820 --> 01:00:52.310 Troy Gardner: I don't think we're gonna have any issues, but… So, you just presented the, … let me just go through. It was… 462 01:00:53.210 --> 01:00:54.140 Troy Gardner: the approval…. 463 01:00:54.140 --> 01:00:54.830 Sukai Durosimi: partnerships. 464 01:00:54.830 --> 01:00:56.829 Troy Gardner: in TWU UNT. 465 01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:05.459 Troy Gardner: Okay, great. That's easy. So, can I get a motion to approve agreement between Texas Westland, UNT, and EFWMA? 466 01:01:06.110 --> 01:01:08.259 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Motion to approve the partnerships. 467 01:01:08.550 --> 01:01:10.219 Troy Gardner: Alright, can I get a second? 468 01:01:11.230 --> 01:01:12.180 Sukai Durosimi: For a second. 469 01:01:12.180 --> 01:01:16.509 Troy Gardner: Thank you. That is a unanimous motion that has been approved. 470 01:01:16.770 --> 01:01:19.230 Troy Gardner: Okay, next item, Mr. Asimi. 471 01:01:19.480 --> 01:01:20.350 Sukai Durosimi: Yes. 472 01:01:22.820 --> 01:01:26.530 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, so we received our charter. 473 01:01:26.770 --> 01:01:30.319 Sukai Durosimi: Which is our financial integrity rating. 474 01:01:30.810 --> 01:01:34.640 Sukai Durosimi: We are… we earned a 79. 475 01:01:34.890 --> 01:01:45.650 Sukai Durosimi: I'm sure part of it is due to our cost expenditures, more expenditures than revenues, enrollment. 476 01:01:45.730 --> 01:01:55.590 Sukai Durosimi: I think those were the two biggest things. I'm talking to, Region 11 currently to see if we can fight for the one point. 477 01:01:55.680 --> 01:02:14.740 Sukai Durosimi: to bring us up to an 80, because the 79 lands us at a C. When I did the projections for the financial rating, I think I had us at a… an 80, so I was very disappointed to get the 79. But we'll see if we could, … 478 01:02:15.410 --> 01:02:26.120 Sukai Durosimi: if we can send something to TEA, if they will review it, or whether they will say that it stands. So, I will inform the board about that. 479 01:02:26.160 --> 01:02:38.889 Sukai Durosimi: So, one of the things I have to do with this rating, this is the preliminary, but for the most part, it usually stays the same, it doesn't change. Not only do I need to inform the board, I also need to inform 480 01:02:38.890 --> 01:03:00.759 Sukai Durosimi: the school community, so I have a brochure that all the things that I need to kind of document and inform parents about, like, for example, if your child's teacher is not, Texas certified, who our teacher incentive allotment teacher is on campus, 481 01:03:00.950 --> 01:03:20.689 Sukai Durosimi: what our Title I funds are, things like that. I have it on one brochure, because it makes it just easier for teachers to access all of that, and so that becomes our public information hearing, is that I'm sending it via the brochure, and I'm also going to post it on the school website, because it's mandated that I do. 482 01:03:20.690 --> 01:03:22.320 Sukai Durosimi: So, … 483 01:03:22.660 --> 01:03:42.080 Sukai Durosimi: This is the information, and also I'll be talking to probably Ms. Sandy Joyce to do a small, posting in La Vida News, because I also have to send it out to the public, just in case, like, a parent says, well, you didn't post it somewhere that I can see it, so we're probably going to go with Levita Newspaper. 484 01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:50.510 Troy Gardner: Gotcha, okay. 485 01:03:50.990 --> 01:03:52.110 Troy Gardner: Alrighty. 486 01:03:53.980 --> 01:03:55.770 Troy Gardner: Pull this back up…. 487 01:03:56.650 --> 01:04:01.489 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Mrs. Durasemi, are you giving your teacher 90% or 100%? 488 01:04:03.480 --> 01:04:04.680 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Of TIA. 489 01:04:04.680 --> 01:04:06.050 Sukai Durosimi: Oh, 90%. 490 01:04:06.050 --> 01:04:10.969 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Okay, I was gonna say, I was like, that's a little bit, we'll take it. Yeah. 491 01:04:11.190 --> 01:04:23.320 Sukai Durosimi: It's 90%, and the 10% goes towards, usually we have to pay, $500 to TEA to accept it, and then the other 492 01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:40.449 Sukai Durosimi: amount goes for… we used to work with Region 11 to come in and be the neutral partner, when we were doing, t-test observations, but now what we use that money for is, like, for example, we need to pay for someone to go through t-test training, then we use that money to do that. 493 01:04:41.180 --> 01:04:50.039 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Okay. I was just making sure, I was… I just thought, I was like, wait, they can keep 10%. Hope they know that. Okay. I was a TIA person at Region 11 for…. 494 01:04:50.040 --> 01:04:51.320 Sukai Durosimi: Oh, okay. 495 01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:54.739 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: That's why… that's what I was asking. That's… that's money. Okay, go ahead. 496 01:04:54.740 --> 01:04:55.250 Sukai Durosimi: Yes. 497 01:04:55.250 --> 01:04:55.600 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Free on. 498 01:04:55.600 --> 01:04:56.010 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah. 499 01:04:57.680 --> 01:05:02.679 Troy Gardner: Gotcha, thank you. So, if we can get approval for the Charter First Rating? 500 01:05:02.810 --> 01:05:08.660 Troy Gardner: Now, you said you're gonna work. Now, how soon will we know what you can do to improve that rate, Mr. Asimi? 501 01:05:08.810 --> 01:05:24.099 Sukai Durosimi: So, I am working with Ms. Crane right now. She needs to get some information. I did send her, some background information on, okay, so this is what the different indicators are, and this is the ratings that we received. 502 01:05:24.100 --> 01:05:33.419 Sukai Durosimi: She's going through it because she's more knowledgeable than I am. I mean, I've kind of downloaded and I've been reading each indicator to see where we dropped. 503 01:05:33.510 --> 01:05:49.840 Sukai Durosimi: And if it's the… if it's enrollment and expenditure, there's not really… I don't know what all we can do with that, because that's our reality. But if there's one point somewhere that we can find to fight for, we're gonna try to do that. 504 01:05:53.050 --> 01:05:54.510 Troy Gardner: Lovely. Okay, great. 505 01:05:55.010 --> 01:06:01.109 Troy Gardner: Alrighty, so if we can get a motion to approve the rating that we currently have, the charter first. 506 01:06:01.240 --> 01:06:04.550 Troy Gardner: with the notion that Ms. Jerseyam is working to… 507 01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:07.120 Troy Gardner: Get us back to a B. 508 01:06:08.340 --> 01:06:10.379 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Motion to approve writing. 509 01:06:11.240 --> 01:06:13.140 Troy Gardner: Alright, thank you. Can I get a second? 510 01:06:14.500 --> 01:06:16.120 Sukai Durosimi: Yes, you can. 511 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:18.439 Troy Gardner: It's joy. 512 01:06:20.810 --> 01:06:21.435 Troy Gardner: Dad? 513 01:06:22.290 --> 01:06:23.599 Troy Gardner: Alright, Mr. 514 01:06:23.710 --> 01:06:24.620 Troy Gardner: Next item. 515 01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:42.660 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, this one is pretty easy as well. This one just says that we are disposing of any… if we… if there are any books, textbooks that are old that we still have in our, 516 01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:59.190 Sukai Durosimi: let me not say… a textbook storage that, if we come across any of them, we can sell, which we can't sell, actually, because Half Price Bookstore does not want any of it. We can recycle it, or, … 517 01:06:59.310 --> 01:07:16.829 Sukai Durosimi: We don't want to dump it, but we… so we usually just recycle. We can't return it because it's too, … they're too old, so I have to get approval that if they're not under the Commissioner's approved list, we can get rid of the books. 518 01:07:18.750 --> 01:07:19.640 Troy Gardner: Gotcha. 519 01:07:21.390 --> 01:07:24.759 Troy Gardner: So… What are we…. 520 01:07:25.930 --> 01:07:38.610 Sukai Durosimi: So you're just making a motion to approve that if we come across any old books in our storage? Every year, I have to… I have to let the board approve this. It's just one of those things. 521 01:07:39.350 --> 01:07:41.430 Troy Gardner: So, if we come across any…. 522 01:07:42.740 --> 01:07:50.110 Sukai Durosimi: Outdated, yeah, outdated books that are not under the Commissioner's list, we can, recycle it. 523 01:07:50.110 --> 01:07:53.330 Troy Gardner: Okay, so we're basically voting to recycle outdated books. 524 01:07:53.330 --> 01:07:54.110 Sukai Durosimi: Yes. 525 01:07:54.330 --> 01:07:55.180 Troy Gardner: Okay, great. 526 01:07:55.340 --> 01:08:02.840 Troy Gardner: Thank you. I mean, I just want to make sure I'm stating it properly. So, can I get a motion to approve, 527 01:08:03.230 --> 01:08:05.940 Troy Gardner: The donation of any outdated books. 528 01:08:06.070 --> 01:08:08.560 Troy Gardner: A removal of any outdated books. 529 01:08:08.560 --> 01:08:10.730 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Ocean to remove the old books. 530 01:08:11.500 --> 01:08:13.709 Troy Gardner: There you go. Can I get a second? 531 01:08:16.229 --> 01:08:16.930 Troy Gardner: Miss N? 532 01:08:17.449 --> 01:08:18.619 Sukai Durosimi: Yes, you have? 533 01:08:18.620 --> 01:08:19.149 Troy Gardner: Bye. 534 01:08:19.569 --> 01:08:22.599 Troy Gardner: Thank you, that is unanimous. 535 01:08:22.870 --> 01:08:25.959 Troy Gardner: That has been approved. Go ahead, Ms. Dearstein. 536 01:08:26.210 --> 01:08:29.700 Sukai Durosimi: Alright, this is the attendance handbook. 537 01:08:30.460 --> 01:08:35.959 Sukai Durosimi: … So, let me see if I can scroll down a little bit. 538 01:08:38.189 --> 01:08:39.560 Sukai Durosimi: All right. 539 01:08:40.109 --> 01:08:47.199 Sukai Durosimi: So, the handbook is very… I believe I uploaded it to… I'm not sure if it's this one… 540 01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:52.819 Sukai Durosimi: Or in the legislative, … section. 541 01:08:53.000 --> 01:09:02.340 Sukai Durosimi: So, the attendance hat and book has changed, but usually is what we need to follow as far as, official accounting requirements. 542 01:09:02.340 --> 01:09:17.729 Sukai Durosimi: And for open charter schools. So, for example, we have a local policy following the attendance handbook. What time do we take attendance? At 10 o'clock. Do we follow that three tardies equals 1 absent? Yes. Do we have an attendance committee? 543 01:09:17.729 --> 01:09:29.440 Sukai Durosimi: Yes, and it goes deeper than that. It's, do we have truancy? Well, no, East Fort Worth has… doesn't do truancy for elementary school kids, but we do have 544 01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:41.450 Sukai Durosimi: the attendance committee, which Ms. Jofei, spearheaded last year, and they met with quite a few parents, that they had passed the… 545 01:09:41.609 --> 01:09:50.850 Sukai Durosimi: Which is 9, I think, a semester, and if you are more than 18, then we're talking about either summer school or, retention. 546 01:09:50.850 --> 01:10:02.139 Sukai Durosimi: So, she spearheaded that, it went well. Trying to think what else is in the accounting handbook. It's a lot of things. I'm not sure if you've had time to review it, but it's just… 547 01:10:02.260 --> 01:10:17.740 Sukai Durosimi: many sections of what the new rules are, and are we following those requirements? So, every district staff, including our PEMS coordinator, which is Ms. Keisha, has access to the accounting book. 548 01:10:17.740 --> 01:10:30.220 Sukai Durosimi: And I'm making sure that our local procedures and processes matches it. But also, the school lawyer has updated information that he'll be sending out. 549 01:10:30.220 --> 01:10:39.350 Sukai Durosimi: So, right now, what we're approving is just the new attendance handbook that TEA released for all ISDs and charter schools. 550 01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:43.429 Troy Gardner: Absolutely, okay. Can I get a motion to approve the attendance handbook? 551 01:10:43.790 --> 01:10:45.940 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Motion to approve the tenant's handbook. 552 01:10:45.940 --> 01:10:47.689 Troy Gardner: Thank you, Dr. Webb, can I get a sec? 553 01:10:47.690 --> 01:10:49.359 Sukai Durosimi: I second the motion. 554 01:10:49.360 --> 01:10:50.520 Troy Gardner: Thank you, ma'am. 555 01:10:50.870 --> 01:10:52.750 Troy Gardner: And motion is unanimous. 556 01:10:53.470 --> 01:10:55.429 Troy Gardner: Alrighty, go ahead, Mr. Simi. 557 01:10:55.430 --> 01:10:59.160 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. Policies for… 558 01:11:00.770 --> 01:11:09.840 Sukai Durosimi: All right, I think this is the one that has a whole lot of policies that I… Uploaded? 559 01:11:11.550 --> 01:11:13.580 Sukai Durosimi: … 560 01:11:14.300 --> 01:11:26.740 Sukai Durosimi: And so, what I learned, at least, which was good, is that when we have a lot of new policies, it can be approved in bulk, so I put all the policies under one. 561 01:11:26.770 --> 01:11:36.930 Sukai Durosimi: Each one of them pertains to different things, so the 89th legislative session for schools was very complicated. 562 01:11:37.140 --> 01:11:55.369 Sukai Durosimi: So, the first one is, we have to adopt a policy prohibiting personal communication devices, which no students can't bring their, phones or, yeah, their, laptops to school, but they can access school devices. 563 01:11:55.400 --> 01:12:00.949 Sukai Durosimi: The other one is about employee misconduct, which just says if there's any, … 564 01:12:01.530 --> 01:12:08.849 Sukai Durosimi: teacher that's sexually engaged with a student, that it will be reported and not… 565 01:12:09.120 --> 01:12:26.299 Sukai Durosimi: will be reported because of a lot of things that were going on with, student and staff inappropriate behavior. We also have an accountability manual that, we are using to make sure that 566 01:12:26.490 --> 01:12:34.579 Sukai Durosimi: Teachers are staying responsible and appropriate. But we also have cameras in all our classrooms as well. 567 01:12:35.070 --> 01:12:47.720 Sukai Durosimi: The… and also, we have to notify if any misconduct happens, we also have to notice… notify parents that there was a misconduct and how we were addressing it. 568 01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:57.800 Sukai Durosimi: Senate Bill 2398 has to do with concussion. We do have a policy for that already. And… 569 01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:11.060 Sukai Durosimi: We have not had training on concussion yet, so that's something I'm looking into. I know that Region 11 has a… some nurses that are going to be providing training. 570 01:13:11.060 --> 01:13:24.120 Sukai Durosimi: So I need to look to see when they're doing, training for at least someone on staff. One or two people on staff can attend. And it's probably going to be someone on the safety committee that will attend. 571 01:13:24.570 --> 01:13:30.939 Sukai Durosimi: Senate Bill 12 has to do with parent engagement policy. We do have one. We did hand out our 572 01:13:30.940 --> 01:13:51.389 Sukai Durosimi: Title I Parent Engagement Compact. We'll also follow that up with, after 30 days, we'll have parents coming to have conversations with teachers, with creating an academic plan or a, behavioral plan for their students. So we pretty much have this one unlocked, which I'm actually really happy about. 573 01:13:51.600 --> 01:14:11.210 Sukai Durosimi: Senate Bill 12 has to do with DEI. We talked about this last semester, and I believe we've already approved it because this came out last semester, but we are making sure that we do not put any of our staff in a position where they have to discuss 574 01:14:11.310 --> 01:14:26.070 Sukai Durosimi: anything that has to do with DEI, we're not giving them anything that has to do with DEI. Now, we do have… there's this other part where TEA has 575 01:14:26.120 --> 01:14:31.999 Sukai Durosimi: well, I guess the governor says that we have to hang the, Ten Commandments. 576 01:14:32.250 --> 01:14:44.359 Sukai Durosimi: In classrooms, I've had a conversation with staff that do not share the same religious beliefs, and they're okay with it. 577 01:14:44.530 --> 01:14:56.539 Sukai Durosimi: from just conversations that I've been in, some people believe in it, some people look at it as golden rules, because it's also shared within their practices, so… 578 01:14:56.640 --> 01:15:19.230 Sukai Durosimi: Once they tell us where we can purchase it, we'll purchase it and have it, and if there's a student that asks, one of the things I've told some of the teachers that don't share the same belief is they can direct the students to go talk to their parents. They don't have to engage in that kind of conversation at all if they don't feel comfortable. 579 01:15:19.230 --> 01:15:29.190 Sukai Durosimi: So, it's the same thing with… when it comes to the different histories as well. They don't have to engage. They can just… 580 01:15:29.290 --> 01:15:33.380 Sukai Durosimi: Keep that stance of neutrality, and just teach from the textbook. 581 01:15:33.510 --> 01:15:37.159 Sukai Durosimi: Which, that's what we approved. We approved our textbooks, so… 582 01:15:37.520 --> 01:15:46.380 Sukai Durosimi: To also follow up with Senate Bill 12, I handed out all the… … 583 01:15:47.030 --> 01:16:02.840 Sukai Durosimi: the policy that the lawyer sent so that the staff can review it themselves, so I handed it out to… I give it to Ms. Jofei, she handed it out to the staff, they signed off saying that they've received it, and that they will read it, and they'll read it. 584 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:13.290 Sukai Durosimi: The next one is Senate Bill 401. We do not have any UIL students, because 585 01:16:13.540 --> 01:16:23.679 Sukai Durosimi: We're an elementary school, we don't participate in UIL. Senate Bill 12, our School Health Advisory Council, is, because we're a small school. 586 01:16:23.710 --> 01:16:33.919 Sukai Durosimi: It's also part of our site base, so our site base is our site base, our safety committee, our shack, everything else that you can think of, because 587 01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:43.939 Sukai Durosimi: We're small, so usually Ms. Ida writes the wellness policy, and she'll start sharing that with the site-based committee. 588 01:16:44.100 --> 01:16:59.949 Sukai Durosimi: House Bill 410 basically says that we will not have vendors that are family members, and we're not paying them to do, anything over $50,000. So, … 589 01:17:01.460 --> 01:17:03.489 Sukai Durosimi: Sorry, gotta erase that. 590 01:17:03.930 --> 01:17:14.659 Sukai Durosimi: We must evaluate bids, especially bids that we go out for RFPs, so I can't have, like, my brother bidding on an RFP. 591 01:17:14.660 --> 01:17:24.889 Sukai Durosimi: That we put out, and not giving them any contracts that are $50,000. I guess this is a problem in some charter schools, so they're really, … 592 01:17:25.410 --> 01:17:31.530 Sukai Durosimi: what's the word? They're really… yeah, they're really cracking down on that, so, … 593 01:17:31.980 --> 01:17:39.279 Sukai Durosimi: We do not have any… I do not have any family members that have any contracts that are $50,000. 594 01:17:40.460 --> 01:17:46.689 Sukai Durosimi: I do have my brother that is helping cut the grass, and I am the one paying him. 595 01:17:50.570 --> 01:17:54.770 Sukai Durosimi: … House Bill 121. 596 01:17:55.780 --> 01:18:14.720 Sukai Durosimi: Good cause exception, the board did vote to have a school guardian. Ms. Ms. Amy already has a license to open carry. We're following up with the Texas Safety Center because they will provide where she would go for the, … 597 01:18:15.060 --> 01:18:25.340 Sukai Durosimi: for the training, but we did have the CRACE training with some Texas sheriffs, so we're hoping that will count instead of 598 01:18:25.770 --> 01:18:32.239 Sukai Durosimi: having to redo the class with Texas Safety Center, since Texas Sheriff did provide that. 599 01:18:32.990 --> 01:18:34.330 Sukai Durosimi: … 600 01:18:35.400 --> 01:18:49.079 Sukai Durosimi: And then we have some bills with the governing body. It has to do with the Open Meetings Act. Part of it is just for the board to do the training on YouTube. 601 01:18:49.080 --> 01:19:08.580 Sukai Durosimi: So, if you guys can just watch it and then print out the certificate and send it to me, that will work. I think I sent it in an email, the links, but it's also in the Google Classroom for any new board members. So you can just go in there and click on the links, watch the video, and then print the certificate. 602 01:19:09.760 --> 01:19:13.170 Sukai Durosimi: House Bill 1481, … 603 01:19:13.440 --> 01:19:21.500 Sukai Durosimi: I think I've already… yeah, I've already discussed the personal communication. Those are all the bills that you'll be approving. 604 01:19:21.830 --> 01:19:23.040 Troy Gardner: Alrighty. 605 01:19:23.580 --> 01:19:24.460 Troy Gardner: Thank you. 606 01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:25.840 Troy Gardner: Summation? 607 01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:30.640 Troy Gardner: If I can get approval of all of the 608 01:19:31.210 --> 01:19:36.760 Troy Gardner: Bills that she just mentioned from… of the 8th and 9th Senate and House bill policies drafted. 609 01:19:37.590 --> 01:19:39.899 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Motion to approve the policies. 610 01:19:40.360 --> 01:19:42.140 Troy Gardner: Thank you. Can I get a second? 611 01:19:42.850 --> 01:19:43.670 Sukai Durosimi: I could…. 612 01:19:43.670 --> 01:19:45.689 Troy Gardner: Thank you, it's been moving properly second. 613 01:19:46.050 --> 01:19:49.230 Troy Gardner: That motion… that… that is unanimous. 614 01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:51.910 Troy Gardner: Alright, go ahead, Mr. Rassemi. 615 01:19:52.310 --> 01:19:57.259 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, … Next is the student handbook. 616 01:19:57.630 --> 01:20:03.999 Sukai Durosimi: I should have added it to, the other policies, but this is the student handbook. 617 01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:05.450 Troy Gardner: Food and Hamilton. Okay. 618 01:20:05.450 --> 01:20:17.740 Sukai Durosimi: It comes directly from the lawyer. There will be some… this is… so, it's coming in phases. So this is the first batch, because they're adding some policies to it. 619 01:20:17.740 --> 01:20:42.550 Sukai Durosimi: So, we have to approve it, because I have to post it online, so as they change and add all these new House bill and Senate bill, I'll probably bring it up again in December or January, because I should… they should have made all the different amendments, or refined it a little bit more, and I'll bring it back to the board, but this is the first batch of 620 01:20:42.550 --> 01:20:44.430 Sukai Durosimi: This is the first batch. 621 01:20:48.420 --> 01:21:04.829 Sukai Durosimi: So usually what I just do with this is I go in and everything that's highlighted that needs to say East Fort Worth, I just change it, because all the charter schools get the same thing. So elementary get their own, middle, and high. What they did with this one, though, I noticed, is that 622 01:21:04.830 --> 01:21:09.480 Sukai Durosimi: They put everything in it. Elementary, middle, and high school. 623 01:21:09.540 --> 01:21:12.520 Sukai Durosimi: So, it covers… Everyone. 624 01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:22.680 Troy Gardner: Ralugi? 625 01:21:24.210 --> 01:21:25.250 Sukai Durosimi: I'm sorry? 626 01:21:25.490 --> 01:21:28.749 Troy Gardner: No, you cut out for a second. Were you still talking, or yeah, stop? 627 01:21:28.750 --> 01:21:30.420 Sukai Durosimi: No, I was done. I'm sorry. 628 01:21:30.420 --> 01:21:31.820 Troy Gardner: Oh, okay, I'm sorry. 629 01:21:32.510 --> 01:21:35.529 Troy Gardner: Okay, can I get a motion to approve the handbook? 630 01:21:36.190 --> 01:21:38.279 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Motion to approve the handbook! 631 01:21:38.280 --> 01:21:39.110 Troy Gardner: Okay. 632 01:21:39.380 --> 01:21:40.570 Troy Gardner: Can I get a second? 633 01:21:40.570 --> 01:21:42.790 Sukai Durosimi: I second that question. 634 01:21:42.790 --> 01:21:46.450 Troy Gardner: It has been moved and popular second that we approve the handbook. 635 01:21:46.720 --> 01:21:52.250 Troy Gardner: … Go ahead, Ms. Dearstin, with your next item. 636 01:21:52.250 --> 01:22:06.070 Sukai Durosimi: All right, this is the… you've heard most of this from Ms. Bay. These are the amendments that need to be made for 24-25 school year to the school budget. 637 01:22:06.190 --> 01:22:13.430 Troy Gardner: So, with what she presented, she showed the actuals of, and the cash flow. 638 01:22:13.560 --> 01:22:30.810 Sukai Durosimi: So this is saying that, on… in line F, you have the amended budget. Some, line items were adjusting up, and some we are decreasing. It still keeps us at a, … 639 01:22:33.950 --> 01:22:42.630 Sukai Durosimi: Let me see… I think the… right now, what they're projecting is the deficit of 540. 640 01:22:42.740 --> 01:22:49.380 Sukai Durosimi: Now, when I spoke to Ms. Bay today, she did not believe that, 641 01:22:49.720 --> 01:23:03.699 Sukai Durosimi: by the time we ended July, it will be that number. It might be less. But nonetheless, she was just like, well, if Samantha is projecting that number, then that's what you would present to the board. 642 01:23:03.740 --> 01:23:15.510 Sukai Durosimi: So, our expenditures is 2.0… And the… Revenue is 1.4. 643 01:23:16.020 --> 01:23:23.979 Sukai Durosimi: And she's projecting… this is what she's projecting for the year. And then we can go through, going through each line item. 644 01:23:23.980 --> 01:23:38.230 Sukai Durosimi: we're adjusting either up or down. So, you can look at line B to see what the current adopted budget was at the beginning of the year, and then what was the proposed in the middle of the year, and what we're ending with, with the amended. 645 01:23:39.340 --> 01:23:39.940 Troy Gardner: John? 646 01:23:45.110 --> 01:23:46.100 Troy Gardner: Alrighty. 647 01:23:46.290 --> 01:23:51.759 Troy Gardner: Yeah, and she… and she went over this, so yeah, we're familiar. Did you… did anyone have any questions? 648 01:23:52.550 --> 01:23:53.670 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: No, sir. 649 01:23:54.060 --> 01:23:58.789 Troy Gardner: Okay, so we're just, … so we're voting on amendments to the budget. 650 01:23:59.320 --> 01:24:01.120 Sukai Durosimi: Yes, sir. Okay. 651 01:24:01.120 --> 01:24:06.969 Troy Gardner: Okay, so if I can get a motion to approve the amendments that Ms. Dursing has presented? 652 01:24:07.220 --> 01:24:09.390 Troy Gardner: With the help of Ms. Bay. 653 01:24:09.990 --> 01:24:12.790 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Motion to approve, budget amendments. 654 01:24:12.790 --> 01:24:14.270 Troy Gardner: Great, can I get a second? 655 01:24:17.300 --> 01:24:18.499 Sukai Durosimi: I said, did you do. 656 01:24:18.790 --> 01:24:26.689 Troy Gardner: Thank you. It has been moved and properly seconded, so… and… and has been voted on for approval, so that is unanimous. 657 01:24:26.940 --> 01:24:29.239 Troy Gardner: What's your next item, Ms. Dear Sammy? 658 01:24:29.420 --> 01:24:34.420 Sukai Durosimi: Alright, so the next one is the 2526. 659 01:24:36.950 --> 01:24:37.730 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 660 01:24:39.250 --> 01:24:41.029 Sukai Durosimi: proposed… 661 01:24:41.380 --> 01:24:52.020 Sukai Durosimi: budget, so if you look at line B, that's what we're, approving today. The revenue's at 1.6, that's what she's estimating. 662 01:24:52.280 --> 01:25:00.900 Sukai Durosimi: And the… … Appropriations for expenditures is 1.72. 663 01:25:01.150 --> 01:25:08.049 Sukai Durosimi: Which brings us to starting a deficit starting 25-26 with $110,000. 664 01:25:10.910 --> 01:25:27.300 Sukai Durosimi: And then if you scroll to the bottom, we always separate the 420 from the 240. Child nutrition, so revenue they're bringing in, is $168, and the expenditure is $102, which they're doing well. 665 01:25:27.300 --> 01:25:37.339 Sukai Durosimi: Which gives them extra revenue of $65, and we hope that we can maintain that. And then the awarded grants is at the bottom. 666 01:25:37.450 --> 01:25:45.690 Sukai Durosimi: So what she did was, I believe she just… okay, yeah, she has Title II, Title I, Title II… 667 01:25:46.020 --> 01:25:48.469 Sukai Durosimi: Title IV and IDEA. 668 01:25:48.470 --> 01:26:11.169 Sukai Durosimi: So one of the things, too, today when we met with Ms. Bay, was we didn't have all the numbers because Iris Averaging 11 is still working with our, payroll. So when we calculated how much money could be moved over from 420, which Ms. Bay already talked about, I think we have about a total of 5 669 01:26:11.200 --> 01:26:25.109 Sukai Durosimi: teachers that would move to not 100% of their salary, but a percentage of their salary would be moved to grants. So we're waiting to see how much that is. 670 01:26:25.270 --> 01:26:33.040 Sukai Durosimi: Also, we've gone through and cut down on the budget. I did ask Ms. Bay, because I sent them a budget, probably… 671 01:26:33.210 --> 01:26:40.889 Sukai Durosimi: end of July, August, to look at each function to see what I've cut and how much has been cut off the budget. 672 01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:56.259 Sukai Durosimi: As far as the cleaning, we went to 3 days a week instead of 5 days a week, and we've kind of just been managing that. I mean, during the summer, the district staff basically just cleaned, to save money. 673 01:26:56.380 --> 01:27:08.870 Sukai Durosimi: So, we have a teacher, a staff, actually, that knows two donors. We are… I'm finalizing the proposal to give to her. 674 01:27:09.080 --> 01:27:17.839 Sukai Durosimi: And, I am actually personally paying out of pocket to be part of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, and… 675 01:27:18.060 --> 01:27:22.630 Sukai Durosimi: North Texas giving and something else. There are 3 things. 676 01:27:22.750 --> 01:27:28.840 Sukai Durosimi: So, with all of those things, I mean, I think… 677 01:27:28.920 --> 01:27:46.440 Sukai Durosimi: We've tried Ms. Jofei's doing Facebook, Ms. Ida's been out doing the summer helping. We'll let go of one office TA staff to bring in another TA that is more involved with the community, that can help with recruiting. 678 01:27:46.460 --> 01:27:53.850 Sukai Durosimi: So, I mean, the only… really, the only other thing that can help this budget is just really donors. 679 01:27:54.090 --> 01:27:59.140 Sukai Durosimi: … An increase in enrollment, and… 680 01:27:59.270 --> 01:28:06.749 Sukai Durosimi: like Ms, what Dr. Webb said, too, is if push comes to shove, we have to start looking at 681 01:28:06.880 --> 01:28:09.350 Sukai Durosimi: … Cutting. 682 01:28:09.560 --> 01:28:23.790 Sukai Durosimi: some, cutting staff. We're really hoping that we don't have to get to that point, but that's where we are right now. So, what I've done is just moved a lot of, salary 683 01:28:24.150 --> 01:28:29.429 Sukai Durosimi: Percentages of the salary to our grant so that it gets off the 420. 684 01:28:29.650 --> 01:28:30.820 Sukai Durosimi: budget. 685 01:28:32.720 --> 01:28:36.179 Sukai Durosimi: So, this is where we stand right now. 686 01:28:37.000 --> 01:28:37.850 Troy Gardner: Alright. 687 01:28:39.110 --> 01:28:40.720 Troy Gardner: Alrighty, so… 688 01:28:41.860 --> 01:28:47.219 Troy Gardner: Tough information that we really didn't want to hear, but hey, we knew it was… we knew it was out there, so… 689 01:28:47.420 --> 01:28:52.709 Troy Gardner: If we can get a… a motion to approve… well, let me ask, are there any questions? 690 01:28:52.970 --> 01:28:55.349 Troy Gardner: On the proposed new budget. 691 01:28:55.910 --> 01:28:57.209 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: No questions. 692 01:28:57.210 --> 01:28:57.840 Troy Gardner: Okay. 693 01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:07.410 Troy Gardner: All right, great, and of course, you'll come back if there are amendments, based on the adjustments that you'll make throughout the year, as you normally would do, Ms. Gerasimi. 694 01:29:07.620 --> 01:29:15.020 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah, and I think the only time we'll really know for sure, too, is I think about the second week of school, we'll know for sure. 695 01:29:15.020 --> 01:29:28.659 Sukai Durosimi: how many kids we have, and who's showing up. And then by September, when we run our first payroll, we'll get a clear idea of, okay, this is how many kids we have, this is what we're looking at. 696 01:29:29.030 --> 01:29:33.400 Sukai Durosimi: And then we can… I think we'll have a true picture of 697 01:29:34.560 --> 01:29:48.710 Sukai Durosimi: where we are, and also, we might be able to maybe speak on that question that Dr. Webb asked, well, how long do we have? So, because right now, it's a rubbing Peter to pay Paul kind of situation. 698 01:29:48.710 --> 01:30:01.129 Sukai Durosimi: And it's… it's just tough. It's just really stressful, so, I understand we can probably bounce back, but I don't know how much we can, bounce back, so… 699 01:30:01.300 --> 01:30:11.870 Sukai Durosimi: But we're… I… I have to give it to the team. We're doing all we can right now to make sure that we're out in the community and we're recruiting, so… 700 01:30:12.520 --> 01:30:13.400 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah. 701 01:30:14.400 --> 01:30:21.490 Troy Gardner: Absolutely. Okay, alright. So, if we… there are no other questions, if we can get a motion to approve that budget? 702 01:30:21.710 --> 01:30:22.749 Troy Gardner: In a second. 703 01:30:23.770 --> 01:30:26.270 Sukai Durosimi: Motion to approve that budget. 704 01:30:26.610 --> 01:30:28.160 Troy Gardner: Thank you. And a second. 705 01:30:28.160 --> 01:30:29.299 Sukai Durosimi: Second generation? 706 01:30:29.450 --> 01:30:33.509 Troy Gardner: Thank you. That has been moved and properly seconded and voted upon. 707 01:30:33.670 --> 01:30:35.780 Troy Gardner: It is unanimous. 708 01:30:36.460 --> 01:30:38.070 Troy Gardner: Alright, Mr. Sami. 709 01:30:39.000 --> 01:30:44.330 Sukai Durosimi: I believe, … let me see…. 710 01:30:44.940 --> 01:30:47.299 Troy Gardner: Let's see, I'm looking here as well. 711 01:30:48.730 --> 01:30:52.459 Sukai Durosimi: I think the only thing I have is to ask…. 712 01:30:52.460 --> 01:30:53.040 Troy Gardner: What about you? 713 01:30:53.040 --> 01:30:53.890 Sukai Durosimi: billboard? 714 01:30:53.890 --> 01:30:56.700 Troy Gardner: Oh, no, we did, we done. That was the books. 715 01:30:57.110 --> 01:31:12.150 Sukai Durosimi: Yeah, the only thing is to ask the board, a date in September. The next meeting is September 9th, but then we need to do board training on a Saturday where Ms. Carter can come in, present for… 716 01:31:12.780 --> 01:31:22.829 Sukai Durosimi: a whole Saturday, hopefully get us a little early, and we can knock everything out. So, if you guys can let me know when… 717 01:31:23.240 --> 01:31:28.059 Sukai Durosimi: in September, on a Saturday, then we can lock in a date with her. 718 01:31:28.060 --> 01:31:31.840 Troy Gardner: Do we have calendars up now, y'all? Y'all want to look now, or do you want to wait? 719 01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:34.189 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: I have mine up, because I already know. 720 01:31:34.350 --> 01:31:38.760 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: … So I'll be gone almost… 721 01:31:39.810 --> 01:31:45.080 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: most of the month of September and October, but… I… 722 01:31:46.760 --> 01:31:50.049 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Yeah, because I'm doing contract work out of state. 723 01:31:50.290 --> 01:32:02.380 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: … If… I have… somewhat of a day. It would be… the 13. 724 01:32:03.750 --> 01:32:04.430 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Amazing. 725 01:32:04.430 --> 01:32:05.299 Sukai Durosimi: 13th? Okay. 726 01:32:05.300 --> 01:32:11.279 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Maybe. But I will be out of state probably until almost November. 727 01:32:12.290 --> 01:32:21.919 Sukai Durosimi: And the… and the option still is open, because I asked her if anyone can't make it on… in person, they can do it online. 728 01:32:22.900 --> 01:32:33.110 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: If that option is there, that… that opens up a little bit more. I could probably do the 27th, for sure. The 13th… well, 13th, 27th. 729 01:32:33.410 --> 01:32:36.080 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: If the online option is available. 730 01:32:36.610 --> 01:32:37.750 Sukai Durosimi: It is, ma'am. 731 01:32:37.750 --> 01:32:41.819 Troy Gardner: Let's start with the 13th, and just kind of go… are you available, Ms. Joyce? 732 01:32:42.080 --> 01:32:42.780 Sukai Durosimi: Yes. 733 01:32:43.170 --> 01:32:46.779 Troy Gardner: Okay, great. Yeah, I think I'm pretty clear that day. 734 01:32:46.970 --> 01:32:52.499 Troy Gardner: I may have to do it online if some pop up, but I'm… right now, making plans to be there. 735 01:32:53.090 --> 01:32:53.980 Sukai Durosimi: Okay. 736 01:32:54.600 --> 01:32:56.810 Sukai Durosimi: And that's all I have for today. 737 01:32:57.030 --> 01:32:57.690 Troy Gardner: Great. 738 01:32:57.980 --> 01:33:04.860 Troy Gardner: Alrighty, so if that's all… If I can get a motion to adjourn. 739 01:33:05.230 --> 01:33:06.920 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Motion to adjourn. 740 01:33:06.920 --> 01:33:09.750 Troy Gardner: Okay, it… 7.30? 741 01:33:10.420 --> 01:33:14.780 Troy Gardner: We would now officially adjourn the meeting. Y'all have a great rest of the day. 742 01:33:15.230 --> 01:33:17.549 Sukai Durosimi: Yes, sir, you too. 743 01:33:17.550 --> 01:33:18.040 Dr. Zandra A. Webb: Right. 744 01:33:18.040 --> 01:33:20.029 Sukai Durosimi: Good night. Good night. 745 01:33:23.170 --> 01:33:25.270 Sukai Durosimi: Okay, I have one thing. 746 01:33:26.390 --> 01:33:27.390 Sukai Durosimi: ….