Agassiz Board Meeting 6-7-10

Present:
Tracey Kaplan
Ben Mayer
Janet Young
Josh Safdie
Kathryn Rosenberg
Paul Robinson
Michael Baran
Erick Wirch
Gillien Todd
Kristin Blum

1.       Director’s report

Tracey reported that she submitted the permanent loan application to Winter Hill Bank. We are going through the approval process for a short extension and the permanent loan at the same time.  The bank has the audited statements (08-09), which showed a profit of $91k (half of which is an asset rather than cash).  The bank is comfortable with how the building looks, how its going, and how our finances look. The loan app should ...
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Agassiz Board Meeting

5-3-10

Attending:

Tracey Kaplan
Ann Holloway
Ben Mayer
Josh Safdie
Michael Baran
Kathryn Rosenberg
Kristin Blum
Janet Young
Joel Bennett

1. 1. Director’s Report

Tracey reported that she met with the licensor at the new building. She likes it and is supportive.

Hiring – The hiring committee has been active.  Six of seven interviews have been set up for the lead teacher position.  They interviewed current substitute teacher Jason as an assistant (after extensively going over the applications). He interviewed very well.  Tracey reported that the hiring committee and all the staff unanimously voted to hire him, and she was now seeking board ...
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Agassiz Board Meeting

3-8-10

Attending:

Ann Hollway
Michael Baran
Jenise
Tracey
Josh
Eric Evich
David
Janet
Peter Kochansky
Ben Mayer

Director’s Report
Licensing – Tracey recently  spoke to Charlotte the licensor . She will come see the new building very soon.  She recommends starting the licensing process in the summer for a fall move-in.

Josh was wondering about worst case scenarios – what has to be done in the yard and exterior, etc. to get licensed for a fall move-in. There is lead on the exterior clapboards and in the soil, which has implications down the road and we need to understand how this will ...
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Minutes Prepared by Kristin Blum

Present:

Directors Report

Enrollment – Tracey reported received a lot of applications for next year, including from some neighbors of the new building. There have been many inquiries about the open house ...
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The December 2009 Board Meeting minutes covered the following topics:

• Director’s Report
• Staff Report
• Group Reports
• Relocation
• Financial Report
• Capital Campaign
• New Business
• Action/Follow Up Items

Present:

• Michael Baran
• Josh Safdie
• Jenise Aminoff
• Eric Wirch
• Evren Celimli
• Peter Kochansky
• Kristin Blum
• Tracey Kaplan
• Joel Bennet

Director’s  Report

Tracey reported that there was a break in at the school over the weekend and the lap top and a small amount of cash was stolen.  The biggest loss was the Quickbooks financial info which had not been backed up recently.  Tracey has to re-enter everything manually, which will be a lot of work.  She’s in looking into an ongoing back up offsite or will ...
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