Board of Trustees Meeting

The School Council from Rockwell High School held a meeting on:

Date:  Saturday July 21, 2007
Time:  2:00 pm. Open session
Place:  The Ranches Academy
7789 Tawny Owl Circle

The following directors, constituting a quorum of the full board were present:
Redge Hudson
Suzanne Burdick
Julie McNair
Stephanie Colson
Karen DeWeese
Jennie Foss
Christie Buxton
Absent:
Others in attendance:
Scott Ottesen
Alisa Ottesen
Kyle Burdette
Adrienne Burdette
Julie Bell
Jason Bell
Shane Rasmussen
Angie Rasmussen
Mandee Dean
Joylin Lincoln
Julianne Kicklighter
Katie Allen
Jenn Maroney
Amber Baker
Kamme Edsberg
Michele Evans
Shauna Vorkink
Tamera Buhanan
Greg DeWeese
Sarah Smith

The chair called the meeting to order and opened the session:
Motion was made to adopt the following agenda for the meeting:
1. Approval of Minutes
2.  Discuss current financial/ business licensing by Angie Rasmussen
3.  Karen Deweese reports on curriculum committee
4. Suzanne Burdick reports on progress of implementation grant
5. Redge Hudson discusses different options for financing/building Rockwell High School.
6.  Open comment by the public
7. Vote regarding who will do building/financing

Discussion held during Open session

Angie gave a brief overview of the finances and said we have enough to get our articles of incorporation but we are still short 2$ to open a checking account.  Julie McNair commented to those present that we still were asking for $40 from each founding family.

Karen Deweese commented that they are in the process of reviewing several curriculums by several different distributors. Brenda Park was going to be the chair of that committee.  Also, the school would like to implement something like IB (International Baccalaureate) cause of the cost will have to consider other means of providing a similar course of action. We were also informed that we need an additional committee for Accreditation which generally takes 3 years.

Implementation grant is going well and Suzanne reports that it should be ready to turn in by August 13.  They are still finishing the teacher development section and need some material from the curriculum committee.

It was mention by Jenn Maroney that we should send around a paper and all those in attendance could write down some of their areas of expertise which could be used by the school board.

Redge Hudson review what the board has done to find a builder/financier
He went over these options:
Monica Critchlow- a woman who helps schools get bonded before they begin to build but the process of approval (if you get approved) takes approximately 5 months.
Peck/Ormsby- consideration that the builder would also finance us. They contacted Redge earlier that week and said they were not in a position to do that.
Hi Mark- Benefit is that we sign a contract and they take care of the rest of it. They use a GMAC approached.  Additionally, they have raised the price on our bid 1$ per sq/ foot since the beginning of the bid process.
Sage Management-Cost Plus approach. Overseer of project has vested interest in the success and timely opening of the school. Con- they have never overseen construction of a school and we have a conflict of interest with one of the board members being related to someone who works for Sage Management.
Wasatch Diversified- We called several times but they didn’t show up for their bid proposal and would not return any calls. 

Redge Hudson then read several emails from founding family members (Rawlings & Walker) stating their disapproval of picking Hi Mark. The floor was then open to founding families to discuss their concerns etc. with the afore mentioned proposals.  

Motion:
Motion made to reconsider Hi Mark on the basis of their new bid which increased the price per square foot from 13$ to 14$ and to put all options back on the table. Majority approved. 

Motion:
Motion made to vote for financier/builder.  Call for votes between Hi Mark and Sage Management. Majority approved Sage Management.

Call from the board for the resignation of Stephanie Colson. With the dismissal of Mrs. Colson, all potential conflict of interest speculation is dismissed.

Motion:
Motion made from the founding families to elect Angie Rasmussen to the position of board member for a 1 year term. Unanimously approved by founding families.

Discussion held during closed session:
There was no closed session.

Please call Julie McNair 331-5229 if you want to add anything to the agenda.