The Ranches Academy Board Meeting Minutes

October 6, 2005 6:00-8:00 pm

MINUTES OF 10-06-05 BOARD MEETING

The Board of Directors of the Ranches Academy held a meeting on:

Date: Thursday October 6, 2005
Time: 6:00 pm closed session, 7:00 pm open session
Place: Ranches Academy

The following Directors, constituting a quorum of the full board, were present:

Stephanie Colson
David Hadlock
Linda Tuttle
Katie Allen
Stacey James

The following Directors were absent:

Jennifer Maroney
Valerie Mattson

The Chair called the meeting to order. The Chair opened the closed session of the meeting.

Adoption of agenda:

The Chair made a motion that the following agenda be adopted for this meeting:

Closed session:
1. Personnel Issues- parent volunteers, teacher evaluations.
2. Financial Issues.
3. Board Issues- governance, follow-up on assignments
4. Facilities Issues- playground.

Open session:
1. Approve minutes from 09-01-05 meeting.
2. Discuss amending Ta pay scale.
3. Explanation of 501(c)3 designation and fundraising guidelines.
4. Approve confidentiality agreement.
5. Teacher survey.
6. School fees.
7. FSO report.
8. Public comment.

The motion was duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, and was made a part of the records of the meeting.
Items 2, 3, and 6 from the open session will be addresses in a future board meeting.

Closed session
Motion

Motion by the Chair to approve the confidentiality agreement was duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, and was made a part of the records of the meeting. See attached copy.

Open session
Motion

Motion by the Chair to approve minutes from 09-01-05 Board meeting was duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, and was made apart of the records of the meeting.

Other discussion held during the meeting:

-The public was notified of the approval of the confidentiality agreement that was voted on in the closed session.
-The board reviewed the teacher survey rough draft and felt it was complete. A final draft will be sent to all the teachers.
-The FSO reported on the progress of the school play. They will be having a stage built for this and other school events.
-The teachers shared their desire to have a school spirit day. The board felt like this would be great to have. The teachers will be responsible for the quarterly school spirit days.
-The board discussed the laws on giving teachers preference for their children to attend the school and felt that we need to discuss it further.