Alaska Native Charter School

APC Meeting

DATE:

February 5, 2006

CHAIR:

Martha Gould-Lehe

RECORDER:

Elizabeth Hancock

 

MEMBERS:                                                                                        Status = Present = P                        Absent = A                              Guest = G              

 

Name

Status

Name

Status

Martha Gould-Lehe

P

Shelia Sweetsir

P
Virginia Juettner

P

Elizabeth Hancock

P
Rosemary Savage

P

Debbie Pungowiyi

P

Mike Huhndorf

G

Sue Button

G

Bev Kirk

G

Carmen Tenney

G

Rodger Davis

G

Alex Pastorino

G

Andee Corando

G

Sarah Scalan

G

Claudette Engblom-Bradley

G

 

 

 

Closed = CL           Monitor = M         Informative = I

 

SUBJECT

DISCUSSION

RECOMMENDATION/RESOLUTION

 

Approval of Minutes

Virginia motioned to have the minutes approved via email, Martha seconded and the group passed the motion unanimously.

Elizabeth will send out the past minutes via email for everyone to proof and the approval of minutes will be done via email.

DOE Grant

Virginia brought the final edition of the DOE grant for the group to approve. Sheila motioned to pass the grant, Elizabeth seconded and the group passed the motion unanimously.

Virginia will submit the grant to ASD (on what date?).

Building Update

Virginia informed the group that there has been some miscommunication between her, Susan Little and the Realtor. The Realtor wants $2,000 for a needs assessment, Susan Little told the realtor that we did not have that money and the realtor will not set up the needs assessment without the $2K. Virginia has reported that it seems as if the realtor does not want the school in the building. Rodger Davis suggested that the school gets our own realtor to bargain with the Land Trust and handle the negations. Martha motioned that we bring the realtor that we were working with before to represent us again, Virginia seconded it and the group passed it unanimously.

Virginia also informed the group that the Mayor’s Office had a meeting with Johnny Olson about his project to benefit urban/rural Native kids and the Mayor’s office informed him of our school.

Martha is going to contact (when?) with Michael James, a realtor at Bond, Stevens & Johnson who was previously working with the school to secure a site, so that he may start representing us again.

The APC (who) needs to set up a meeting with (when?): ASD facility people (Mike Frank,) Susan Little, The Mayor’s Economic Office, the Realtor, our realtor and ourselves to discuss the building issues.


 

Board Changes

The Dolcheks have been dealing with family issues and are out of town. Janann has resigned, but not formally. Ben Snowball and Max Huhndorf have agreed to become our Elders, but we need to wait until the Dolcheks have formally resigned. Mike Huhndorf has also agreed to replace Janann Kaufman when she formally resigns.

Once there have been formal resignations the APC needs to vote on the board changes.

Immersion Program

Time issues required that this be tabled until the next meeting.

The Immersion Program will be added to the next meeting’s agenda.

ASD Meetings

The APC has two meetings set with ASD; there is one on the February 6, 2007 to discuss hiring of employees and there is one on the 22 of February for our State Board Application.

For the meeting on the 6th; Martha, Shelia and Elizabeth will meet with ASD. For the meeting on the 22nd will require all APC Board Members to attend and all are able to.

Business Plan

Carmen Tenney presented the business plan to the group with help from Rodger Davis. Carmen walked the group through what a business plan entails; that our mission is supported through goals, we support the goals through strategies and support the strategies through tactics. Rodger informed the group that while our application is great, we have no clear goals on how to achieve our mission and lots of tactics. We need to create goals, show the strategies and the tactics to complete those goals. In order for our school to really work we need to bring in culturally responsive teachers and ASD will not support us in bringing in these teachers. The district student to teacher ratio is 20 to 1, where our school needs to have a student to teacher ratio of 12-14 to 1.

In order for us to get more funding from outside entities we need to get our business plan created so that we have something to present to those entities. Rodger suggested two schools for us to consider to look at; they were Salt River and the Spokane Tribal School. Also that most successful Native Charter School are under State authority, not their local School Board authority.

It was also discussed that we find the right group to help us with our own 501 © 3 application, but that Catilin would be able to help us with our application. Also that we could approach one of the Native Corporations to have them assist us with our business plan.

The APC needs to approach the Native Corporation for their assistance in creating a business plan because they have the means and support to help us create ours.

 

The APC needs to identify how it is going to complete the 501(c)(3) application and by (date).

Mission Statement Meeting

February 7, 2007 is when we will have a meeting to set our mission statement. The meeting will be held at the First Alaskans building.

 

Announcements: Our next meeting will be February 12, 2007 at 4:30 in the PCC Cormorant Conference Room on the ANMC Campus

 

 

 

 

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