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This report is created by Ken Ducote and Rose Drill-Peterson on behalf of the Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools
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The Orleans Parish School Board held its monthly Committee Meetings and a Special Board Meeting on April 10, 2014, at OPSB's Timbers III Office Building, 3520 General de Gaulle Drive.
OPSB's April 15 Board Business Meeting has been cancelled.
OPSBrief has summarized the agendas for the various meetings below. To read the posted agenda items and back-up documentation for a meeting, click on the meeting title below. Links to reports distributed at the meetings are also provided.
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***This email is created by Ken Ducote and Rose Drill-Peterson on behalf of the Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools and is not an official correspondence from the Orleans Parish School Board***
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| APRIL 10 OPSB COMMITTEE MEETINGS |
Received and discussed staff reports and no action was necessary
- 2014 Summer POWER Program
- POWER = Pushing Onward with Excellent Results
- LEAP, EOC, GEE and LAA2 remediation programs
- Credit recovery programs
- School-based cultural, academic and enrichment programs
- Extended year programs for exceptional needs students
- English as a second language programs
- Youth in transition and homeless youth programs
- Student of the Year Awards Program
- Students will be recognized at future Board meeting
- Back-up documentation has information on each First Place Winner and Runner Up
- First Place Winners
- Fifth Grade - Alfred H. Ripoll - Franklin Elementary School
- Eighth Grade - Aulbani Beauregard - McDonogh 35 Academy
- Twelfth Grade - Luke Tang - Franklin High School
- Type 5 Transfers
- Ad hoc committee to be established to seek input from successful Type 5 charters on developing conditions favorable to their return to OPSB
- Type 1 Charter Applications 2014
- Six complete applications were received by the April 4 deadline
- Applications have been forwarded to third party reviewer
- OPSB consideration is anticipated by July 2014
Received and discussed reports from staff and took action as indicated
- Amendments to OPSB Legislative Agenda
- Approved an amendment that would oppose any legislation repealing Common Core standards and related testing
- Legislative Session update and recommendations
- Received a report from Superintendent Stan Smith
- Executive Session to discuss litigation
- A worker's compensation case - proposed settlement
- Expropriation case - former McDonogh 11 School - status report
Property Committee - did not meet
Received and discussed report from staff attorney with no action needed at this time
- Committee and Board Meeting agenda process
- Modeled on BESE and LDOE processes and timelines
- Proposed to more efficiently present items to the Board
- Proposed to give Board members and the general public more time to review items prior to Board meetings
- First draft of a process or practice to implement existing policies
- Future Committee Topics
Received and discussed staff reports and took action as indicated
- Student of the Year Awards Program
- Forwarded to full Board with recommendation for approval
- 11 scholarship awards to be presented at future OPSB meeting
- Sponsored by BESE and LDOE
- Funded by donations from High School Scholarship Association and Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana
- Reasonable Assurance of Employment Letters
- Forwarded to full Board with recommendation for approval
- Routine annual item to clarify ineligibility of 9 and 10 month employees to collect unemployment compensation for the summer
- Capital Budget Amendment #5
- Forwarded to full Board with recommendation for approval
- FEMA funds $317,075 - restore original architectural drawings salvaged from Almonaster Central Services Building
- 2014-2015 Property insurance renewal
- Received report from Insurance Consultants
- Forwarded to full Board with recommendation for approval
- Arthur J. Gallagher & Company - $1,612,558 premium
- Includes property, boiler & machinery, and terrorism physical damage coverage
- Obtained more rate competition and more favorable experience factors this year
- Covers those properties with May 1 renewal dates
- Charters reimburse OPSB for their respective buildings
- Value increased from $224.9 million to $245.5 million
- Premium decreased from last year's amount - $1,989,983
- 2014-2015 Flood insurance renewal
- Forwarded to full Board with recommendation for approval
- Travelers Insurance Company - $159,602
- Covers those properties with May 1 renewal dates
- Corrections to be made to adjust contents coverage at Lusher and sale of some surplus property
- Charters reimburse OPSB for their respective buildings
- Bid results for Chiller Replacement at Benjamin Franklin ES
- Forwarded to full Board with recommendation for approval
- By public bid - 5 bids received
- Bernhard Mechanical Contractors, Inc. - $101,650 - 35% DBE
- Budget timeline for FY 2015
- General Fund Budget up for adoption in June and Consolidated Budget in September
- General Fund Budget available for public review on May 29 with Budget Hearing on June 12
- Consolidated Budget available for public review on August 20 with Budget Hearing on September 11
- February financial reports
- Sales tax collections have increased significantly this fiscal year
- Status of Community Disaster Loans
- Received letter on March 17, 2014 from FEMA cancelling loan
- Loan amount cancelled = $59,476,054
- Cancellation has impact on "carve-out"
- OPSB and RSD to discuss any needed legislation and consult with charter groups as done before
- DBE program implementation and effectiveness
- Ad hoc committee to be established to assist with implementation
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| APRIL 10 OPSB SPECIAL MEETING |
This service is made possible by support from the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and funding from the
Robert Reily Family Trust and the Smith/Cooper Foundation
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