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School Board Meeting 04/25/2019

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you're watching wpst St John the Baptist Parish Public School television check it out I'm calling the president St John Baptist Parish School Board will meet a regular session at got your Gram cafeteria 1600 Highway 44 Reserve Louisiana on Thursday April 25th 2019 at 6 p.m. at this time for everyone would please take a moment of silent meditation Portuguese rice for the pledge stop the cavalry the latest choosefi of the United States of Pictionary public for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all phone call please Sheldon is the burrow actor mr. branchez mr. Jones mr. Johnson Standard Process 8 present three App State Prison three apps and we do have a core at this time I'll probably come in for 2 minutes Chris Jones is coming to fix it tomato public comments on the April 4th meeting but it goes to every meeting that was ever Andy our comments made about Charter Schools never had a public meeting I went over 2 minute of every Monday we had and according to RS 17 3 9 8 3 D1 private or public charter for type 1 or type 3 School the local school board proposal show hold a public meeting for the purpose of considering the proposal and receiving public input social meeting shall be held after a reasonable say that again reasonable efforts have been made by the board to where to find the public of the meeting and is content having something on your agenda about an item is not a meeting about the item thank you Miss Betty's motion to accept minutes motion by mr. Mister Jones whoa, please add to calendar it's the branches the German Johnson yes mr. Trish sander item for superintendent report Chippenham Kevin George would come in to the update on strategic planning amen sister Kevin George superintendent update on strategic plan Sanders and I'm here but but I do have a PowerPoint that I like to show the board I think that I last board meeting Sean brought up we we talked about a l one of our Consultants that have been doing some work with the board and ask that you giving updated every board so just want to talk a little bit about the strategic planning process and the goals that we do have won't take a lot of time but I do feel it when that the board see some of the things that we're working on our first I want to just look at our goals orange a strategic planning committee got together and develop some goals know some guy pulls for us for me as a superintendent and for the staff is a hold of work towards over the next year two years three years in in 4 years on the road if they have a goal post that we can measure ourselves too so we can see what we're doing well and what would not doing well in and what we need to improve upon so the first goal is great about support School closure false is high performance of all students employees as you can see that the two indicators are we going to judge about how well we've accomplished that goal of the first plate of the first thing indicate is going to show us how well we've accomplished that goal is buying and increasing our professional development by staff I'll buy it by 10%. Also increasing the professional development but he's in the quality of that professional development I believe that's what the committee was hitting on so when you talk about culture and climate wanted things shall I stay up all the time is you can't fix anything else if your culture is broken so you have to work on that culture make sure that you're at your schools or inviting your school's is a place that a growth can happen so we going to look at that and Joe that are the number for phones that are are there and buy the number of assignments to the alternative site phone number to develop and Implement a regular Salon instructional system that is a very large go but we going to judge that by Howard we are doing through our school before med school in District Norman score Edition performance school and school performance was we know for the most part are totally judged by how well kids do on the end of your assessment there are some other things but at the element level 70 to 75% of the school score is developed or derived from the state assessments once you get in the high school 25% are my end-of-year assessment switch call the end-of-course exams now they're going to be called the leap 2025 exams the ACT scores I strengthened diploma in a graduation rate so we're going to track that or how well we're doing whether or not we are going as a school system and then we we and as we continue moving on that it is important increase the technology at every at every single School site and so we going to judge how well we doing that buy by increasing by 5% every year phone number 3 providing Quality Financial Advisor cool season that sustainable just left a a finance committee which I say the most of that meeting and you know some of the indicators are providing that balanced budget planning for a future drug facility upgrades alligator Lobby for OB Revenue. are salaries up intention in competition with our neighbouring parishes also a plan to keep our class sizes of below what's required who trained and maintained Apple certified highly qualified staff did this is a big issue I'd only st. John the Baptist Parish would also in the state also in this country I think there's not one week that goes by there's not a national article on national news report on the shortage of teachers of qualified teachers that are the school system's so we have to do a great job of making sure that we are attracting a qualified teacher certified teachers to our school system that has been an internship program to cultivate School leaders you know of a great principal can solve problems in the great principal can work with a staff in that have all certified staff who can get the boat the most out of them also building internal leadership opportunities in school by providing that leadership opportunities for teachers so those are the things that we working on phone number five development company has a communication plan be known in the age of social media way we Market are schools Brandon schools brand ourselves it's totally different from even 10 years ago we have to have a strong social your campaign you have to have a looking at different methods of showing people what we're doing well in be know that bad news travels fast we need to have that same energy with good news dispatch system so obviously one highlighter mr. Roper No Parental involvement effectively connected communicate with our parents so with that said do I District cabinet he's all the folks all of our directors are part of the team working with Arc Colton to make sure that we are addressing the goals so right now we're in the process of doing is a we met a few times already and I we've also had some individuals of meetings with me one-on-one with each one cabinet members about their roles and how their work coincides and correlates to the gold so we're working on those things that we've already have a rough drafts of us petite of of strategies that are going to help us to achieve those goals and I next meeting coming up on May 1st that's it is a couple of other things that I'd like to just mention is part of the my superintendent report Big when I got a call this afternoon to write about 5:30 about a big envelope golf tournament is normally held at the Belle Terre Country Club I ever with all of the Deluge of rain that we've had today they've had to move it to the riverlands country club so right down the road so I just wanted me to make sure I announced tonight at the big Denville tournament at golf tournament is not going to be at Belterra in will be held at the riverlands golf club couple of other things you know when we talked about grabbing teachers in in tonino's teachers Eagle everywhere take to grab our teachers so what we're doing is we're having a job fair in New Orleans on May 11th or we work with the Urban League of New Orleans they've been very accommodating to ask on a used their facility to host a job fair in New Orleans on May 11th from 9 to noon we've been getting that message out through social media through email and press releases that are going to be coming soon we are also in order to Market that program it's been booked on WDSU on May 5th they're going to talk about me no teacher shortages and what we're doing to attract teachers to our school system so we'll be on WDSU on Sunday May 5th at 9:15 a.m. the kind of promote that jump what's the biggest things when the greatest things that we do here in this system is recognized that kids who are doing an amazing job I don't know Roundup program will be on May 10th and that begins at 10:30 a.m. all of the kids who were maintain AMA honor roll every semester every grading. He recognized and honored he is a huge event we invite of folks to come out and support our kids with what they're doing lead testing and interview arresting parents know that in the past you know there was like one week of testing and so you knew that we'd to have your kids at school and to be there every day and to make sure things happen now testing is spread out over a month-and-a-half you know we pretty start at beginning of April and we're still testing even today that storms and tornado warnings and everything in between but we're still testing so I won't know where you reiterate the parents that testing continues through May 9th are elementary schools will finish up at the end of next week but I high school kids will still be testing through of May 9th so again we want to make sure that your parents are aware that testing last so much longer time is broken down into smaller components and we are tests for about six or seven weeks now last thing I have is just want to congratulate both while baseball teams east Saint John to West st. John High School East st. John made that trip up the west of always been a long time since you say John has been in the play but it did a really good job this year coach brick Henderson or window Henderson has done an amazing job with those kids at East Saint John high school they want a lot of great you eat a lot of good teams the school year map to West Monroe deloss 309 West Monroe hasn't is a Powerhouse program in baseball as well I would have known for their football Provost but they do a great job in baseball in our kids held their own up there and West st. John the Rams they won their playoff game yesterday are you moving on to the second round of the playoffs so we want to congratulate both of those teams and president thank you thank you you're so kind of George you should wear mr. Jones George Michael Kors South Windsor football recruiting of course out the Cold War qualify change your sensitive nature recurso that colleges local colleges in terms of people is coming out of local colleges what was the nature yes sir I'm glad you asked that we've hit every College we've been to make nice you've been to UL we've been to LSU and 2 nickels we've been the Southeastern and how to say that we have not been a grandma yet sir but or two lanes or we haven't hit those colleges but you have hit all of those schools the big thing with recruiting teachers coming out of Collinsville the numbers have dwindled the number of college graduates coming out in education has really doing it over the years we at LSU we just obviously Lourdes University here in 35/3 and 35000 students there were 200 graduates of education and so when you talk about the school I got to shoot with that many students are at only 200 mls used to work out 400 500 a year and now that down. what is the Best Buy with doing things like we're going out into New Orleans Baton Rouge do we have to do to recruit folks say hey you want to come work for a great school system with an excellent benefit package in supporting our teachers so we're going out and try to grab okay last question so what's the certified percentage rate about teachers in the district putting me on the spot on that one source original history probably have a better yes but right now I could give the roundabout number with right at about 80% answer thank you thank you Miss Jones I don't Vibe educational presentations and recognitions by the board of Staff public comment about the Yale 20 change supposing on music in schools being a public comment is Monica Brown principal of Journal Lori Yale 2019 even supposing on on music in schools Miss Brown thank you and good evening out of the board members and mr. George I have the pleasure of just wanting to recognize the in a war that a fellow colleague Miss Rebecca home she's the executive Master teacher all the St John the Baptist Irish music teachers in my Association comes through when she works at our schools with our Music Teacher and we've had I seen the growth of our program and the school and so miss home was selected by the Gale distinguish music education how to attend a symposium this summer and she was nominated by a Partners at the National Association for music education and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation identified her as an exemplary music educator who brought a valuable experience and perspective to the Symposium what Ambassador has her work in the community here in St John and some of the things she's done in the school here she also works with other schools throughout the state she focuses on equity and also integrating Arts into the classroom this Symposium David send over a team of National Organization leaders music education professors and so forth to on experts in teaching of the Artistry in public it's a big tank in which the participants were working large and small groups to develop and set of principles for National dissemination she was one of five music teachers who selected to attend a symposium and she will attend this summer it isn't an all-expense-paid trip for her the meals the travel and her three night stay in so just wanted to bring that to a attention of perish because of a job well done that she's been being recognized for this award this summer for rent what's in the news today o&h Bakery I want to see if you was home I mean obviously that that experience is a little shocking to get the email that explain that I've been selected also very rewarding by the work that we've done here to rebuild a music program we've only been at it for 6 years has been recognized by nafme and by VH1 that's that's incredible I represent music teachers who are actually in the classrooms in all of the work so there's a bit of surrealness to me and being able Rebel Yell and be a part of the conversation because it's our teachers accepting the decisions I've made or trying something new for the first time in terms of what we're working on this summer it's a building ecosystems music education ecosystems to looking at not just our music teachers in the classroom but I talented music teachers are outside teachers Math teachers who are also musicians and response requires in in the system Peter Principle he was a clarinet player like that becomes part of a strong ecosystem and I think for me to be at a table with with 39 other people who are Visionaries and you are passionate as well I think it's going to give me ideas to come back and continue guiding us towards building a really Dynamic music program and it and maybe it like improving where we are now you got a long way to go I suspect in the way that I think will always have a long way to go before we're at 100% I'm hoping to make some connections with people who can really help guide me and then help me bring back that impart information to share with our teachers and disseminate it to all of you who have been supportive of the Arts bro, see y'all congratulations on Ward and Family Guy he was a couple years back one of the board members met with VH1 and that's how it got started and I always hit it has gone throughout the day star District so I know you would be very proud of your ward so we just want to see when you go back we want to educate the whole child so if anything that's that you think you need I know I spoke to message RJ Tuesday I think you see it met with some of all me off if I anything that you don't need just comes in a board to make sure that we continue this program will then I'll share that information with mr. wise is I'll be careful Mister music teething you don't know but I'll just want to say you know Rebecca is high-quality top you don't want to go to the best I tell her story all the time about her when we went there was some conference in New Orleans and Rebecca was not working with us at that time she was working somewhere in New Orleans and over the conference and she is there with her kids you know kids that look like our kids and they were all playing the ukulele and they were performing and I was just looking at I was just in in all of what you did with those kids and so how I came back when I got back from the conference I was talking with my HR director and I was like man I said you should we need to our Music Teacher we would just starting that program so we need our Music Teacher I said we can get this why I said is one laid out totally story I just told you now waiter IH how do I get to Hanes George come down by my office so I went down to the office and Rebecca sitting in the office as like what does ukulele ukulele tongue twister but Wesley's I'm glad you're with us now and then above the work you're doing have interviews an interview at LaPlace Elementary and I didn't accept the job because I knew I the teacher leader Summit when I was walking with the kids there are a few people who were at my interview who jumped on my tesar new music teacher like right now everyone sure this is one of my principles would be and I really like being on the stage looking out in St John all the teachers were in the same color sitting together and I was really impacted by Dennis remove thousands of people there was something to me in that moment that's where I needed to be and then the person who would give up a couple of Fifth Ward was like your  to your principal with me and you wanted to make sure I Visions were aligned and she's like it's going to be me and so it was in the car on the ride home from that experience that I called and accepted the job so it's this is meant to be this is this is hard work music program but this is this is meant to be and our kids deserve every bit of it and more thank you item five be public comment on the mission of Hamilton of Hamilton education program students we're going to thank you is going to the next thank you Stacey item 5e will be carried over to the next meeting for the principal at Gary Madera magnet make a presentation this is what she was she able to come today no sir but she will be at the next one okay okay thank you I don't personal matters the nun items definition Finance public comment on a monthly budget actual was Felix Fountain Blue, item 778 Misty Felix Mountain formation in the next few weeks we've kind of starting to hit the Billy Hardwick going to have a lot of finance committee meeting at 1 today going to roll up our sleeves and we have another one next Wednesday and you won't be getting any more monthly budget to actual you going to be getting an actual amended budget and then you're going to be getting a proposed budget for next year thank you my smile right 70 public comment on adopting a resolution to Levi Miller just for the 2019 tax roll being up on the counter at mr. Felix volume resolution living Villages for the 2019 tax rolls through all the legal hoops and now it's just time to adopt a resolution let me in on Middle Ages for next year so Civil War movie Valentine board motion by the entire board welcome Miss Holden The Boro. You tell her yes yes mr. Trish is today and yes we just made our job a little bit easier for next year by Levi in the middle of just taking apple cider recommendation Sunday Times Beignets to absent Fortune does Carrie under my name I have to pull the entire board wait policy actually I would like to present and isn't present tonight for the meeting so in order for me to have this item on the agenda we have to wait policy and vote on it as to who would chair item number 8 temperature temporarily item number temporarily jam and there's a motion by Michelle on the floor going once I see ya second wave to a policy to temporarily change curly wavy bob yeah I already got that. Please yes mr. Jones. standard yes yes yes. With that being said I needed a motion of someone to chair the meeting turn off speak at one time something that everybody wants make a motion at Key Jones motion room for mr. Jones II by Holden Road, please Keith Gretzky Jones mr. Boro at Stellar Francesca mr. Jones Michelle to Trish at the same yes and yes to wrap Specialties to have some ocean carries mr. Jones becoming a special saddles for crossword review and approval site location for Louisiana parole charter school that has been added to the rapper change location lapc 2044 and 2048 Railroad Avenue Reserve 70084 requires action overcometh and the numbers are there 344 340 Ringwood Avenue where is it is it in compass within the fence itself but because he comes within his fancy you talkin about Reserve Recreation Center you're talkin about your excuse Miss Betty's I'm sorry we apologize but first we need remove from the table and that's a non debatable issue so we have the first ever made from the table Google Google place in Selden X killer yes is to Trish Sandra yes when is rent open what a mess up the minutes what's the Dodgers score I said there are no numbers out there where you can tell before the 41348 I don't get me wrong I still say we don't need to charter school but the bottom line is the location we need to know exactly what we're talkin about here but if you guys are going to approve that again is a chair are you going to set a limit Precision Engineering officer George Washington board president Louisiana permit or members I want to thank you guys for letting us a gender this item today Sunday and taking it out to consideration on yesterday I had conversations with superintendent George express signs I promised him I would research those items and get back to him and it was my intention to meet with mr. George for discussing any of these items publicly it is still my intention to do so so you know we have those items I didn't want a discussion without first allowing you and the board and legal counsel to review those those ants can you share with your homeboy look forward to discussing these matters and working through whatever issues he plants at thank you the Epic sorry I'm still Washington die I will share that with the board well I guess I don't want to talk to you for the rest of public, Atlas current still open and I'm a resident of st. John Parish are all my life and disability State about 32 Riverside and it's not about Barrow what location is and our children is I just heard the young lady said about the about music classes all about the kid it's all about the kid and my daughter is there matter fact I hadn't thought through it and graduated when is about to graduate that's was at 3:30 to Riverside I mind my kids and other is in here and it's all about the kid and that's what I want to come and share will there be there by choice are there are 10 year old daughter who is 10 years old she's there in 4th grade that's who's there herbivore spy and it's all about the kids and left and the right thing for the kids I expect everyone understood what you think about the kid is shown by teacher Sean I know you person Patrick Ki I know all of you. It's supposed to be about the kids and it's about time st. John you was right the kid not about us it's about the children do right for the kids and stop putting out his own hole let's work together by no work together as change this and I'll be with the saying about us not working together we don't know how we're together it's time to work together children and each one of us can make it better for all of us I don't know you person mr. But I know I love you my brother and I'm here to stay for the kid. Even a shirt click tampons children the kid it was right for the kids right. Keeping them on hold thank you Channel still open is now closed Garrett to Houston Spider-Man Edition missman area. Versace Mansion temporary temporary chairman Jones as a Sanders and superintendent George I like a history lesson tonight. This one's been going on for a long time I'd like to provide all the background and then you know make my recommendation so as you guys made her call back last August he worked with the charter school to put together a but I would call him a 99.9% complete Charter contra are all the terms required by law the only term that was missing was location which is a required turn by law so to call it a charger would be premature but as a show of good faith to the school after 2 years after approval of this board showed that it was willing good to form a charter school here in St John Parish by approving that Charter and leaving open the term of location that was in the fall of this school in January beginning of January we had heard nothing from the school district about there something from the charter school about their site location in late January they contacted me concerning a policy change they needed in order to be eligible for some start-up fee we probably got two. Drafted policy revision and and plan to bring it to the board and in the course of that conversation I reminded them they still owed us a site location a few weeks after that they provided a chosen site Riverside Academy right over here on Railroad Avenue immediately upon them notifying of awesome. We raised some concerns initially concerned about desegregation and and the desegregation obligations of the perished and the Imp impact bit may have on getting the school approved through the date D said court and under your existing decent order we also expressed some concerns about the commingling of funds because to novel get here in Louisiana to co-locate a public charter school with a private for-profit school it was my hope and my belief in February that we could work those issues out it's not unheard of around the country. co-located schools I got to tell you I couldn't find much about co-located public private schools that usually to public schools to charter schools located in a single facility problems for this board and continue to work eventually we passed their policy that they needed to get those start-up funds and made a number of information requests that to put our mind at ease about the co-location of Louisiana Premier chart School in Riverside Academy I would like to say that in in the two and a half months that passed since they told us this on February 6th that those concerns have been addressed I got to say those concerns have been expand last 2 months we sent the letter yesterday I'm going to use that as as the as the guide here for my comments just to kind of give you guys an idea of the information that's still outstanding from this Charter School relative to that and the idea of why we these things the first off they've proposed a $500,000 annual lease of the Riverside Academy facilities that they'll be using don't have much background in real estate but it it piqued my curiosity but initial application which was filed a couple years earlier predicted that they would pay but what kind of mou in place with Lifehouse church for $210,000 in annual rent more than doubled what are expected least pain raised concerns for two two reasons wanted to go located school I would think that would typically cost less than having sole use of a facility and to a representative 100% + Kris and what their expectation was and you got to think that's going to have some impact on their bottom line their initial application also stated that they would have a $230,000 operating a surplus at the end of the first year and it's very much appeared that this new lease amount was $290,000 more than their initial proposal what eat up that fund balance and some and leave them in the deficit for year one or other concern was that there is a quite a bit of crossover in the leadership and an employee's of Riverside and this new Charter School Louisiana law flatly prohibits the transfer of a private school to a charter school and here we see for example I believe are there current board president is an employee of Riverside Academy the individual listed on the Secretary of State's page as the officer and agent for Louisiana Premier Charter Schools Incorporated is also I believe an employee of the board and they are frequently sent members of their board here to speak on behalf of Louisiana Premier Charter so we've got some real conflict concerns they are not only does that least amount to seem high end up in a in a general sense when considered with these potential conflict issues it brings up concerns of conflict of interest on top of just the wasteful expenditure of public funds since mom died on February 8th when they announced the site to us they told us that they had a consultant report and appraisals that's supported this as the best site for the school as of today we have not received those consultant reports we have not seen those appraisals for numerous times over the last two and a half months and they have still not been provided most recently requested them on April 24th at our initial request was made on February 16th over two months ago still no appraisal still no consultant reports we've also in our most recent letter requested proposed amendments to the operating agreement and the annual performance indicators again at an executive committee meeting which representatives of Poseidon lapc we're at we made it clear that if these were to be addressed the issues we have with commingling in the conflict issues or were to be addressed in that in the contract it was our expectation that they would propose those amendments to us if not receive those proposed amendments to date the annual received a single email about the annual review indicator is indicating that they were open to using the state template you've received no proposed amendments that address our concerns about the England funds about the possible desegregation issues that arise from locating out of historically segregated school what about the conflict issues that have come come to bear was also requested in advanced Edition a revised enrollment projection and grade configuration table if you remember their original application requested can't remember the total enrollment, but it was to open as a K-12 school I believe the toad enrollment was going to be 675 675 students at a k through 12 school last August when we entered into that agreement they ask to amend that to open as a canine school with 575 students I'm sorry 525 to start rolling to ak5k 12in their fourth year of operation with 750 students offered to expand their enrollment and allowing the growth of Steel but in the end 575 more students than you originally approved on April 11th that the executive committee meeting mr. Neary presented us with some information some proposed demographic information and it was K through 8 was no plan have 9th grade brought this up at the best in meeting the following week and I received an email the day after that from their attorney mr. Higgins telling me that they did plan but sorry that they did not plan to have a 9th grade and that they expected us to update contract accordingly the following day I received an email from Mr Neary saying they do plan to have a night raid I'm not sure who to trust on that one and the request was that invented this me they provide us with a clear braids to figuration I got to say it also raises some concern that these decisions I believe are being made outside of board meetings for the Louisiana Premier Charter board because I'm not aware that they met at any I'm between these conflicting answers I got again the Hope was that before this meeting today we will be able to present you with clear picture of how they intend to open in August I still don't know if they plan to have an 8th grader and 9th grade I have to plan to stop an 8th grader if they plan to have a knife he also requested a number of documents which are required by law for their board members most notably their financial disclosure forms and their ethics training forms this is the kind of administrative tasks that shouldn't hold up a charter contract let me quite honest with you it's the kind of administrative stuff that can be knocked out in the afternoon not a big deal but here where we have known employees of LA you see sitting on I mean own employees of Riverside sitting on the board of lapc it's important that we know their full Financial entanglements but missing those financial disclosure forms for a number of their board members including their current wood chair again is my understanding based on Riverside website and a new stories is a current employee of Riverside Academy candy was requested to calendar their board meetings for the current calendar year again I have real concerns about the leadership of Louisiana Premier Charter and that it's their commingle that there are entangled with the leadership of Riverside Academy I wanted to see if board minutes they have a public records duty to publish their agendas and it's for the as long as they've been in existence in Seeking a charger there are none on their website there's no calendar we've requested a calendar it was my hope to figure out where these decisions are being made and how they're being done you don't know games today I have serious concerns that the intermingling between Riverside and Louisiana Premier prohibits you from approving this Charter contract the comments today did not improve that is it seems that there's an expectation in Community the current students at Riverside have a place at Louisiana Premier Charter that they'll simply move over to this new school in the same facility and that's inappropriate see legal my recommendation to the boy today I do not approve this contract and not approve this site what's your name thank you for your recommendation and also directions for Rehab Horse Comics I know we had a an open Forum away as people public comment is anyone can ever so high address the issues that area you see anybody from Riverside numbers that are working but destruction if she would like to address most of the Warriors concerns what's the chair we just passed public comment I'm section what up can of worms Facebook account on Baltic Amber has a request for someone from my old PC to make a payment that's at the discretion of the person actually eating this meeting and I would be you you are in fact you would even fact make these decision doesn't she ever mention last Federation set an alarm for 1 to check station over cancer enjoy Washington I like the address Barry's I mean about it being beside Academy I've never been an employee of Riverside Academy actually a volunteer coach for different School volunteer as a coach at Riverside Place. Ernest football find Curtis Christian School in basketball in Roosevelt I had an employee of either of schools but even with a mission as a mentor I go wherever the kids up instead I'm entangled with school you're at probably take me there easily near websites about mast thank you sir good name for a horse you brought up some other on questions about the cool minion the funds and I'll process that it took to build an assessment are you able to provide us with that assessment that showed that Riverside I was the best site for the charter school yes sir that's actually I can. We gave you guys and I'll stay up. Charter schools in 30 gas de tourney documentation that's just a summary of it by there to the board because I'm saying how come you get when you mad at the information hold on a second mission so I guess this is where my concern comes in and I appreciate I'm sorry mister Washington was bringing the material tonight but certainly we can't be expected to make a decision on something that was just delivered to the superintendent before we have to review and so you know Jen likes it I appreciate you know you bringing that but we would be not upholding our duties as board members if we act on something of this scale and talk about the financial responsibilities that we does board members and end up holding our our purpose here if we didn't do a thorough review based on what are turning has shared with us so again like I said I appreciate that but I don't think that anyone should be expected to vote on something when we haven't had a chance to actually review the information nor is the superintendent been able to look at it or I don't think I'll lawyer has been able to look at it yet and I so I just that's just where I think we are now and I guess the other point that I'd like to make as I missed him an area also and we talked about the financial issues and I just want to stress how important that is because when you look at charter schools in Orleans Parish at around the state what are the key reasons they fail is because of the financial backing or not having a sound financial background so we aren't being fair to the students or the in there because we certainly don't want to school to open and then find out they don't have enough dollars to make it through the year and then those parents know students have to make choices about somewhere else to go to this issue about the finances to me is it was critical issues that we need to have addressed and I talked about the $500,000 leased and whether that is something that is within the range of the Vision but also in the current proposed contact I don't know what's in this one they also asked for a million-dollar lease for the fifth year and I think those all issues that have to be addressed before we can adequately vote for something that could potentially put kids at a point of being in a school and then finding out they don't have enough dollar to make it through so I I just want to say I appreciate bringing the information but certainly we can't be expected to make a decision tonight when we haven't had a chance to review the information that was just provided to you know I just got I just want to piggyback on what you said I can understand the increasing the the Rattle and it because of when we when I was initially talking about a reserve Christian I was six years so they've been a lot of overhead they're going to put in that school in shape and make it to the meeting all the standards of preschool requisitions that are required by the state so I can understand that but I don't think I can go with the million dollars in the fifth year increase in cost because you don't have to have his lunch in the Indian way of Maintenance because that's cool at Riverside that Elementary when he looks pretty good and I've been through Elementary made but I got a problem with the million dollars Bank of North Carolina mr. Washington in a reference to all of the concerns that I would Tony has posed and one of the biggest concerns was and we had this meeting on I want to tell you April 11th when we met with executive committee at with some of your I don't even know if it was some of your members I think it was representatives of Riverside at that particular meeting time was always of a factor that you are asking us to vote on opening up a school and you're presenting us with your you and your bored presenting us with information tonight and expecting us to make a decision saying that it's nothing unfavorable I'm being fair so do you think it's fair for your organization to come to us tonight to say vote on this and the information to disseminate it to us tonight that wasn't the intention at Smith's gets to that was our conversation with an indoor I'm still my will get him that information today that wasn't meant for the board to vote on that was me keeping my word to Serpentini Bill I said I would buy that information to him they want to public comment on it and I want some misinformation provided by the board and seems like some things with misinterpreted there and I just want to have some clarity to that but that wasn't fair to influence engine I don't know on the board going out for the information that they had and we thought that that was sufficient to vote on it today but some of that information is also so misinformed information out there $1000000 kicker on a 5th Year at is a new fiction clocks that is if School decides not to renew after four years and this has to leave I mean dollar Scooby-Doo or contract after 4 years renegotiate at a reasonable rate said a million dollars is not part of the main dollars is a eviction but the information provided to us that's written in the lease doesn't stated that I think it's being misinterpreted when I want to Seminary the clarity of that portion of the lease the current lease the proposed lease is only for four years at the end of the fourth year they're allowed to remain however the least amount will double I say a million it would more likely be close to a million one because the contract Grows by percentage every year so 500,000 is really only the first year cost there will be adjustments up every year over the four-year term ending in v year if they were to remain automatically jump to double that amount now I agree that they could renegotiate for that fifth year they could renegotiate at any time at any point in the contract they could negotiate a new list for 5th Year firework I seen this board on a similar release you're going to Goshi ation position is going to be really weak when you're staring at a million dollars rent the next you went when Riverside looking at a million dollars rent and river dam in La PCS on the options are to leave or meet the demand Riverside that's going to be leveraged you don't know that it would be a million years ago could be a million years in your five but I would think that that weakened negotiating position is going to ensure that it's it's inflated even more than it already is according to its written and what I've read and what's your read have you misinterpret the lease I mean it doesn't slow down date that they be there in the 50 and pay that bill million but they're either going to have to vacate the building renegotiate with the looming $1000000 over their shoulder and if Riverside stands to get a million and rent their incentive to negotiate is pretty low just one of the questions to Jones shirt Mesa one of the big concerns also was timeliness to provide us with information prior much prior to the meeting itself that was a great demand that this was placed on the agenda and we were under the impression that all of the information would have been provided to our Administration and to the attorney's bar to me so we could sit and make a decision because one of the biggest concerns you wish to discuss this on the May 9th agenda and is Big Brush and I agree to put it on the agenda to discuss it because your organization was so adamant about doing so once again let's talk about China witness in terms of providing you with the information right now you've provided answer questioned but haven't provided solid documents that was meant for superintendent George those who answers to the questions that he asked me yesterday but I will attorney on behalf of the board asked for solid documents to be provided what's the entire lease agreement and operating agreement that we could have time to mull over this and we haven't received any of those documents either yes or our attorney his body toes. it's to your attorney according to the information we've received the answer is no but at this point I'm going to make a motion to continue to table this item until we can resolve the Deep the matter is at hand proportional table what's the Sounders 7-Elevens to Philip Johnson woke up please is Holden X killer yes yes yes it is 2 f definition of horses business I want to channel Ministry matters there are none 7-Eleven Rhode Island Adventures just two for the board to be informed that the Westbank Civic organization is hosting their Haniel honor roll for the kids it is Friday May 3rd at 7 p.m. or invited us to dinner. I think we have another mission on their personal lives I think dr. Z is as is resign and nor do I think we need to add that to the Personnel list Washington someone good night I can do this you're watching wpst St John the Baptist Parish Public School television check it out

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