Bay Haven Charter Academy

Board Minutes

January 4, 2007 
 

Call to order 6pm

Prayer Tim Kitts

Pledge Charles

Approval of Agenda

In attendance: Charles BYRON, Scotti Haney, Tracy Johnstone, Tim Kitts, Walter Woodrick

November minutes approved.

December minutes approved with change from Charles Haney to Charles Byron. 

Principal’s Report:

New employees:

Jeannette Deathridge in media center resigned.

Margaret Gamble hired for library and Julie Morrow, each will be ½ time. Julie hopefully will become a 5^th grade teacher in the future. 

St Joe Board Member – last week talked about Mr. Dylan becoming board member in place of Lewis Howell. Tim subsequently talked to Lewis recently, and Lewis said Mr. Dylan is the person the company feels is the best fit for the school. He is a non-practicing attorney. He will come tour the school next week. Lewis highly recommended him. We need to have 2 for ballot, so we’ll have Lewis and Mr. Dylan together. 

Tim met with St. Joe and they are landscaping and will improve area and make pristine. They actually did some work on our property but we won’t fuss about that. A Hawk’s Landing sign should be in median soon. 

Scotti, Chris Reiss, Ken Borick, Tom Morgan (NW head man), Scott Colvelt, Tim Kitts, and our attorney Tim Sloan will meet soon about money owed to us. 

Business reorganization – we will save money in proposed structure. Scotti will talk to John Hage about him allowing us to use SIS system. Pending anything from this talk that changes things dramatically, Tim recommends we accept with this contingency. Tim thinks BDS will approve and he will send memo to Mr. McAllister. Tim will have Tim Sloan review contracts. Tim says they did shop 401k in the past, and Ted Haney has given the school a lot of help and service at no cost in the past. Tim thinks end of January is best time to end relationship with CSUSA.

Tracey moved that we accept the plan presented and timeline discussed. Charles seconded. Motion carries unanimously. 

Tim is doing Middle School principal stuff until Meredith on board and he says this is fine.  

The 5% raise went into effect with the next paycheck and many employees were very gratified with the increase and told Tim thanks. He appreciated their thankfulness. 

Tim is still talking to Bill Spivey. There is one time that we can refi the loan on the building. Bill is looking at how we can do this and reduce monthly payments. We have another 18 years on loan. Tim would be open to us refi’ing for 20 years. Our contingency is growing. Aftercare has made $87m clear profit this year.

Summer school for K5 and summer session 6^th grade math and science. 

We are a few over on FTE right now and we budgeted for 95% and would be great if we’re at 100%. 

Lost grant for floor and could use surplus to buy a floor so gym can be used for athletics. Our boosters are paying thousands to use Renegade. 

Tim will check with BDS for timeline on 6 new buildings and what we need here for superstructure for those buildings. 

When we get $133m grant for startup money for middle school, Tim may want to use some of that for teacher planning area. He’ll use other part to beef up library and buy some technology for school and buy half the curriculum for OpenCourt as this is the time to upgrade. 

Right now budget looks in good shape. Should be pretty close to $700m goal carryover for the summer season. 

Tim encouraged board members to be a presence at the school for activities other than our own children, wear board member tag, talk to people, and observe what’s going on. 

Tim went to classrooms today and set the tone for the next 90 days to “Finish Strong” from book by Steve Farrar. 

New principal moving here from Maine and starts 1/17. Meredith Higgins. 

No public input or questions. 

No announcements. 

Meeting adjourned. 6:50pm