Big Enough to Serve, Small Enough to Care

    Board of Trustees Meeting

    The Board of Trustees from Rockwell High School held a meeting on:

    Date:  Thursday  November 29,  2007
    Time:  8:00 pm.
    Place:  The Ranches Academy Gymnasium
    7789 Tawny Owl Circle

    The following directors, constituting a quorum of the full board were present:
    Redge Hudson
    Suzanne Burdick
    Julie McNair
    Angie Rasmussen
    Jenny Foss
    Jenn Maroney
    Mary Lifferth

    Others in attendance:

    Brenda Park
    Virginia Bowser

    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.  Approval of Agenda (agenda is attached.)

    Discussion held during Open session

    1. Items of Board Business:
      1. Open for Board comment and general business
        1. Status of 501c3
          1. On Redge’s plate
        2. Our library did not get the Hamburger Helper grant
          1. Utah has never received the grant
        3. Brenda Park commented that her and Mary went and looked at the curriculums
          1. All the curriculums are different
            1. Only common line are the programs for the kids on either end of the spectrum
            2. Good tracking procedures on tracking kids and making sure they are in line with their goals
            3. Curriculum decisions were made by a decision hard and through input from the Director
            4. Sturgis charter school has some of the best tracking
            5. Ednet will not answer questions
            6. Have not looked at Ucast (campus on UVSC)
          2. Mary received an email from YES charter goes beyond the curriculum
        4. Curriculum committee will be on hold until we have hired a director
        5. Are the mascot and colors set in stone?
          1. Seems like it needs to be set in stone
          2. Students want some input on the colors and the school mascot
        6. Enrollment committee purchased a list of 2000 names
          1. Using the help of the youth
    2. Director Position Discussion
      1. Talk about manner we want to hire a director
        1. Narrow applicants down to 3-4

    Redge will call applicants to set up interviews on December 8th at 3 o’clock

        1. Each board member will send questions to Jenny Foss to compile for the interviews
      1. Discuss qualifications the Board would like to see in a Director
        1. Refer to the charter
        2. Refer to 12 attributes of a good director by Brian Carpenter
      2. Create an Action Plan for hiring a director by the end of December
        1. Discuss interviews as a board after interviews on Saturday
        2. Decide on a director at the next board meeting.
    1. State sponsored loan
      1. Discuss what is required for the Loan
      2. Discuss rates and answer questions regarding paying the loan back
      3. Decide if we will apply for the loan
        1. Suzanne made a motion to apply for loan
        2. We will decide on an amount for the loan at the next board meeting
    2. Meet on Thursday the 13th at 7 p.m.
    3. Public Comment
    4. Close Meeting