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Agenda Item	Purpose	Presenter	Notes/Materials
Approval of Minutes	Vote	Nik Charov	2022.09.13 Meeting Minutes
2. Finance Report	Vote	Peter Montano	September Financial Statements
3. Executive Director’s Report	Review	Anna Klein-Christie	Executive Director’s Report
4. Head of School Report	Review	Cicy Po Andrew Ritter	(in Slide Presentation)
5. Harpswell Academy & the Charter Commission	Update	Jana LaPoint
6. Public Comment		Thorn Dickinson
7. Executive Session	Vote to Enter	Thorn Dickinson

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Financial Report

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Financial Highlights

The current ratio is 2.5. good start for the year.
Legal costs are high.
Please note many of the variance will self-correct over the next few months.
The budget is ¼ of the budget compared to the first QTR which only had one full month of school.
The debt payment of $100,000 (reserved cash) was paid in October.

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Baxter Academy

Executive Director Report

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Compliance:

Completed all October Charter/NEO reporting requirements (OT)
Ongoing work with Bob Kautz (Note: Harpswell Academy charter has not been renewed.) (OT)
Panorama Insights: Perseverance, Engagement, Professional Learning, Perceptions of Leadership]

AREA TO WATCH (AW)	ON Track (OT)	STARTING Initiative (SI)	Board Action (BA)

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Recruitment Strategies: �(review activities from 22-23 for the 23-24 year)

Current Student count - below 10% threshold (AW)

current total enrollment: 357
31% of student body either IEP or 504

Started Community outreach (MANA) (SI)
Explore New Partnerships (SI)
Started regular tours (SI)

AREA TO WATCH (AW)	ON Track (OT)	STARTING Initiative (SI)	Board Action (BA)

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AREA TO WATCH (AW)	ON Track (OT)	STARTING Initiative (SI)	Board Action (BA)

Academic & Admin Function/Curriculum:

Flex Friday proposals are being reviewed on Friday (OT)
Explore New Partnerships (Roux University, Husson College, Portland Public Library, PMA) (SI)
Reactivated the field trip program (OT)
Received MDOE grant for 9th grade Lego-robotics (SI)
Collaboration with the Robotics program continues (OT)

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Community Outreach:

Engage Baxter Parent Organization & Parent Open house (SI)
Next Baxter Beautification Day (December) (SI)

AREA TO WATCH (AW)	ON Track (OT)	STARTING Initiative (SI)	Board Action (BA)

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Executive Director Update, con’t:

AREA TO WATCH (AW)	ON Track (OT)	STARTING Initiative (SI)	Board Action (BA)

Fundraising

Developing Board fundraising support team (AW)
Year-end campaign in planning process (Giving Tuesday/Week) (AW)
Purchased and populated Bloomerang, a database that can be used for recruitment, fundraising, and all other relationship management (OT)
Collecting Alumni stories for 10th Anniversary (OT)

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Finance: (see financial reporting) Low Enrollment (AW) Lack of Fundraising Infrastructure (AW) Transition for Peter Montano into consulting role; Tristin to become Treasurer (SI) Creating new internal budget monitoring protocols/ Leadership staff training related to budget (SI)

AREA TO WATCH (AW)	ON Track (OT)	STARTING Initiative (SI)	Board Action (BA)

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Building/Staff Infrastructure: Repainted Great Room and Hallway with volunteer support (OT) Worked with great team to complete safety drills (fire safety training, two fire drills, one lock-down - bus safety drill handled by LUCE) (OT) Boulos has sold the management of 185 Lancaster Street (AW) Baxter Academy is fully compliant in Safety requirements (OT)

Executive Director Update, con’t:

AREA TO WATCH (AW)	ON Track (OT)	STARTING Initiative (SI)	Board Action (BA)

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Head of School

Board meeting video

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Student Engagement

Senior Leaders

Restorative Practice

Nature Immersion

Principal’s Table

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Faculty & Staff Engagement

9th grade experience

Restorative practices

External partnerships

Interdisciplinary work

Partners for World Health

Deeper Learning

Wells

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Family Engagement & Real World Academics

Parent Lemonades

Back to School Night

Family Meeting

Speaker Series

Jason Libby, E sports

Elliot Severn, James Webb Telescope

Esta Pratt-Kielley, Maine Public Radio

Coming up…

Maxwell Nosbisch, Elections & Social Media

Dan Mickool, Husson School of Pharmacy

Phil Coupe, Revision Energy

Callie Ferguson, Bangor Daily News

Susana Hancock, Arctic Climatologist

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Baxter Leads in Learning

Accountability

Progress Reports due

Family Engagement

Parent meeting

Parent Teacher Conf

Engaging Instruction

PD work and Class visits

Visible Authentic Student Work

Flex Friday Proposals

Nucleotides for success