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This report is created by Ken Ducote on behalf of the Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools
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The Orleans Parish School Board held its regular monthly Board Business Meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, in the Mack Spears Auditorium of the former McDonogh 35 HS. Prior to the Business Meeting, a Pubic Hearing on policy matters was held at 4:30 p.m. in the same place. The meeting was streamed lived on Cox Orleans Cable Channel 8 and at www.opsb.us, where it will also be archived. OPSBrief has summarized the agendas below. The complete posted agendas and back-up documentation can be accessed by clicking on the meeting titles below .
***This email is created by Ken Ducote on behalf of the Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools and is not an official correspondence from the Orleans Parish School Board***
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REPORT FROM OCTOBER 20 OPSB MEETINGS
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Revised Policy Section D (Finance Policies)
- The purpose of the hearing was to solicit public comment on the proposed policy changes
- No one appeared to speak on the proposals
- Recognition of various achievements by students
- Encore Charter has moved into its renovated building (former John Shaw ES)
- Benjamin Franklin Charter HS has been recognized as a 2015 Blue Ribbon School
- District Teachers of the Year
- Honored recipients of Teacher of the Year Awards for Orleans
- Elementary - Laura Murphy Jonau - Edward Hynes Charter School PE Teacher
- High School - Alnita Williams Porea - Warren Easton Charter HS Math Teacher
- Committee Reports
- Received the reports from Committee Chairperson
- Purchasing Consent Action Items
- Grounds Keeping Services
- Approved contract via public proposals
- H&O - $ 54.95 per acre - 35% DBE
- Education Management Consultant Services
- Approved contract via public RFP
- Square Button Consulting - $145,000 - 100% DBE
- Action Items
- Revised Policy Section D
- Adopted the policy revisions
- McDonogh 35 College Prep HS - Close-Up Foundation Grant
- Accepted additional $ 25,000 grant from Close-Up Foundation Model Citizen Mentoring Program
- Publication of Notice of Public Hearing for adjusting millages
- Approved advertising notice of hearing
- Hearing scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, 2015, at OPSB Office, 3520 General DeGaulle Drive, Room 4050 at 4:00 p.m.
- Related to millage roll forward
- Due to taxable property value increasing, left alone, millage would automatically decrease from 40.340 to 38.224
- If millage is rolled forward to prior 40.340, local public schools would realize an additional $ 7,438,214 in 2016
- Deferred / Excess Revenues allocation
- Approved the plan to distribute $ 250,000 and withhold $ 500,000
- Leveraged financing to complete historic renovation of Sophie Wright HS
- Approved Resolution 34-15 to increase funding available in Master Plan
- Agreement with City of New Orleans to pursue funding for stormwater management and associated property improvement projects
- Amended Lease with Warren Easton HS for expanded campus
- Approved amended lease to account for expansion of campus to adjoining square
- Historic Marker at Valena C. Jones ES campus
- Approved Resolution 32-15 regarding installation of historic marker
- Unveiling ceremony slated for November 15, 2015, the 55th anniversary of the desegregation of NOPS
- Disposition of vacant properties
- Approved disposition of amended list of properties
- Noble Site
- Bodenger lots
- Henderson ES
- Carrollton Courthouse
- Bell Jr. HS
- Sale of Revenue Anticipation Notes
- Adopted Resolution 33-15 - JPMorgan Chase - $ 50,000,000
- Routine annual item to provide cash flow until property tax revenues are received in second semester
- Executive Session
- Discussed the following items in Executive Session
- Subsequently approved General Counsel's settlement recommendations
- A personal injury case
- McDonogh 11 expropriation case
- A special education case
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This service is made possible by support from the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and funding from the
Robert Reily Family Trust
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