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PINE FOREST CHARTER SCHOOL

1120 W. Kaibab Lane, Flagstaff, AZ  86001

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 27^th, 2011

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Pursuant to Arizona revised Statutes (A.R.S. 38-431.02), notice is hereby given to the members of the Pine Forest Charter School Governing Board, and to the general public, that the Governing Board will hold a board work session on the Pine Forest School campus at 1120 W. Kaibab Ln, Flagstaff, AZ.  The Board reserves the right to change the order of items on the agenda, with the exception of public hearings set for a specific time.

Pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.03.A.2, the Board may vote to go into Executive Session, which will not be open to the public, for legal advice concerning any item on the agenda, for protection of confidentiality of parties or to review, discuss and consider records exempt by law from public inspection, including the receipt and discussion of information or testimony that is specifically required to be maintained as confidential by state or federal law.

DATED AND POSTED this _____day of ____________2011.

By_______________________________________

Michael Heffernan, Director

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Governing Board Work Session

I.              WELCOME

                A.  Roll Call:  G. Schniewind_____  P. Giovale_____S. Mushro_____K.Bade______

                                        A. Gorman_____T. Ajaski_____M. Heffernan_____ M Polack_____

                B.  Approval of Agenda

II.            CALL TO THE PUBLIC (This is the time for the public to comment.  Members of the Board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda.  Therefore, pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.01.G., action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter, responding to any criticism, or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date.)

III.           ACTION ITEMS:  Discussion and possible action (The Board may elect to convene an Executive Session for            protection of confidentiality of parties.  No formal action can take place at this time.  Any further consideration of the topic    will be placed as an agenda item for a future Board meeting.  At the conclusion of the Executive Session, the Board will                 adjourn the executive session with no Action being taken.)

1. Work Session with Governing Board, Capital Campaign members, and PFS College of Teachers

• RSF Social Finance Term Sheet Q & A
• PFS Campus Tour
• Capital Campaign Status (Garrett) Design Status (Pete)
• Additional time for Q & A

IV.           ADJOURN

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Thank you to Cafe Daily Faire for a yummy 10% Day, Faculty and Staff loved their lunches!

PINE FOREST CHARTER SCHOOL

1120 W. Kaibab Lane, Flagstaff, AZ  86001

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

3:30 p.m.

Monday, April 11^th, 2011

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Pursuant to Arizona revised Statutes (A.R.S. 38-431.02), notice is hereby given to the members of the Pine Forest Charter School Governing Board, and to the general public, that the Governing Board will hold a public meeting, open to the public as specified below in the designated board meeting room at Pine Forest Charter School, Flagstaff, AZ.  The Board reserves the right to change the order of items on the agenda, with the exception of public hearings set for a specific time.

Pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.03.A.2, the Board may vote to go into Executive Session, which will not be open to the public, for legal advice concerning any item on the agenda, for protection of confidentiality of parties or to review, discuss and consider records exempt by law from public inspection, including the receipt and discussion of information or testimony that is specifically required to be maintained as confidential by state or federal law.

DATED AND POSTED this _____day of ____________2011.

By_______________________________________

Michael Heffernan, Director

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Regular Board Meeting

I.   WELCOME

                A. Verse: The Social Ethic:  The healthy social life is found when in the mirror of each human soul the                                                             whole community finds its reflection; and when in the community the virtue of each one                                                   is living.

                B.  Roll Call:   G. Schniewind_____  P. Giovale_____S. Mushro_____K.Bade______

                                        A. Gorman_____T. Ajaski_____M. Heffernan_____ M Polack_____

                C.  Approval of Agenda

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:  March 7^th, 2011 Regular Meeting

III. CALL TO THE PUBLIC (This is the time for the public to comment.  Members of the Board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda.  Therefore, pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.01.G., action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter, responding to any criticism, or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date.)

IV. REPORTS

        A.  PTA:  President Amanda Bowling

        B.  Development Director:  Elayna Langbecker

        C.  Faculty:  Members Trish Ajaski and Anke Gorman 

        D.    College of Teachers: Member Marcy Polack  

        E.  Treasurer: Member Sara Mushro 

        F.  Administration:

1.   Enrollment:  248 FTE (15, 27, 27, 30,30,29,26, 32, 15, 17)

2.   April Equalization Payment/Federal Funds

3.   Fall Board Training

V. ACTION ITEMS-Discussion and possible action (The Board may elect to convene an Executive Session for protection of confidentiality of parties.  No formal action can take place at this time.  Any further consideration of the topic will be placed as an agenda item for a future Board meeting.  At the conclusion of the Executive Session, the Board will adjourn the executive session with no action being taken.)

1. Action to approve Legal Services Renewal Contract
2. Action to approve eTapestry expenditure for school database
3. Action to approve FY11 School Calendar Final Day of School Date Change
4. Action to approve RSF Social Finance lending proposal
5. Action to approve proposal to discontinue German language program

VI. PERSONNEL (The Board may vote to convene in Executive Session.)

1. Action to approve contract renewals to proposed current contract employees
2. Special education teacher/director maternity leave proposal
3.  

VII. ADJOURN (Next Regular Board meeting:  Monday, May 9^th, 2011, 3:30 pm)

Thank you Pizza Guy we love your years of service to us a Pine Forest School and thank you for supporting us with 10% last night!

Thank you to Salsa Brava and Cafe Ole for being great food and for supporting us with a 10% Day. Thank you to parent Brian David for playing music.

Thanks for donating 10% of your profits to our school!

Dear Community Members,

We know an update is overdue yet some how the weeks keep flying by with so much work that sometimes we fall behind on our job of communication. Our capital campaign continues to take baby steps toward land acquisition, and our eventual relocation of Pine Forest School.

Maybe you have heard the question, why haven’t we moved yet? Why don’t we have a new school, maybe that question is top of your mind too, the answer comes down to money. When the United States took a hit economically it changed the financing industry drastically and Pine Forest has been stuck with this challenge, which has slowed down our move to a new location and a better parking lot. Banks have tightened their lending practices; bonds are expensive and have timelines that are not realistic for our school to meet. Meanwhile Arizona Department of Education keeps reducing our paycheck, and our increased enrollment just barely seems to keep up with the cuts, leaving no extra money in our general budget to support an additional debt payment at this current time. Base Salaries of teachers have been frozen for two years and year last year and this no teacher received pay increases of any kind. Pine Forest has implemented things like activity fees and gone after every tax-credit dollar we can to support our extra-curricula and enriched learning activities, however each month we still struggle like many of you to make ends meet. Yet we are not willing to give up our goal of a new school for all our students and families and we continue to look at creative ways to solve the first step of this, which is to get land.

We continue to seriously negotiate on a piece of land as well as research creative financing. We have a couple options one: we would do this with the formation of an investment LLC.  An LLC would be formed, including Pine Forest School, with all partners having an ownership percentage equal to their investment.  The LLC would then purchase the land and hold it until the school raises the additional capital and/or obtains the financing necessary to complete the construction of the new school campus or buy out the other partners. Another option is working with Rudolf Steiner Foundation. We are hoping that one of these models will allow us to take advantage on the current piece of property we are looking at, and then allow the school the time it needs to continue its capital campaign, and budgeting that will hopefully eventually lead us to be able to either build the school outright with cash raised or support a debt service equal to the funds we need to build a school.

On other news you may have noticed in our newsletter our calendar of events for big fundraising efforts. We are working on raising $50k by June 30^th for general school funding.  We hope you can help, this is certainly a team effort, so if you have some extra time and are willing to roll up your sleeves and put some work in please contact me.

We have put off the serious push of our pledge drive until we can secure land, but it doesn’t mean we don’t need your help, if you can support us now with a payment of $25 a month that adds up to $300 a year for our capital campaign or maybe you can do more like a $100 a month that is $1200 per year, 100% of these donations are tax-deductable, and we need your help more now then ever so that we can grow our capital campaign account.

Elayna Langbecker at 928-255-3000 or elayna.alexandra@pineforestschool.com.

Our Capital Campaign: To relocate our school to a location that will allow us to realize the full potential of our curriculum and create space for growth into the future.

PINE FOREST CHARTER SCHOOL

1120 W. Kaibab Lane, Flagstaff, AZ  86001

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

3:30 p.m.

Monday, March 7^th, 2011

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Pursuant to Arizona revised Statutes (A.R.S. 38-431.02), notice is hereby given to the members of the Pine Forest Charter School Governing Board, and to the general public, that the Governing Board will hold a public meeting, open to the public as specified below in the designated board meeting room at Pine Forest Charter School, Flagstaff, AZ.  The Board reserves the right to change the order of items on the agenda, with the exception of public hearings set for a specific time.

Pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.03.A.2, the Board may vote to go into Executive Session, which will not be open to the public, for legal advice concerning any item on the agenda, for protection of confidentiality of parties or to review, discuss and consider records exempt by law from public inspection, including the receipt and discussion of information or testimony that is specifically required to be maintained as confidential by state or federal law.

DATED AND POSTED this _____day of ____________2011.

By_______________________________________

Michael Heffernan, Director

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Regular Board Meeting

I.   WELCOME

                A. Verse: The Social Ethic:  The healthy social life is found when in the mirror of each human soul the                                                             whole community finds its reflection; and when in the community the virtue of each one                                                   is living.

                B.  Roll Call:   G. Schniewind_____  P. Giovale_____S. Mushro_____K.Bade______

                                        A. Gorman_____T. Ajaski_____M. Heffernan_____ M Polack_____

                C.  Approval of Agenda

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:  February 7^th, 2011 Regular Meeting

III. CALL TO THE PUBLIC (This is the time for the public to comment.  Members of the Board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda.  Therefore, pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.01.G., action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter, responding to any criticism, or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date.)

IV. REPORTS

        A.  PTA:  President Amanda Bowling

        B.  Development Director:  Elayna Langbecker

        C.  Faculty:  Members Trish Ajaski and Anke Gorman 

        D.    College of Teachers: Member Marcy Polack  

        E.  Treasurer: Member Sara Mushro 

        F.  Administration:

1.   Enrollment:  250 FTE/234 (15, 27, 28, 31,30,29,26, 32, 15, 17)…withdrawals have minimal            affect on equalization…still using charter estimate, not SAIS…when disaggregate, will penalize

              2.   Budget cuts for remaining of FY11

                3.  Budget number for College of Teachers to work with regarding reducing FY12 expenses: 

                   10% & 20%

                4.   Enrollment for fall 2011

V. ACTION ITEMS-Discussion and possible action (The Board may elect to convene an Executive Session for protection of confidentiality of parties.  No formal action can take place at this time.  Any further consideration of the topic will be placed as an agenda item for a future Board meeting.  At the conclusion of the Executive Session, the Board will adjourn the executive session with no action being taken.)

1. Action to approve vouchers: ev11008 (Feb.’11), & pv 1108 (Feb.’11)
2. Action to Approve FY12 School Calendar Proposal…Mon., Aug 29 to Wed., June 13
3. Action to approve financial services proposal
4. Action with Rudolf Steiner Foundation

VI. PERSONNEL (The Board may vote to convene in Executive Session.)

1. Counseling services stipend

VII. ADJOURN (Next Regular Board meeting:  Monday, April 11^th, 2011, 3:30 pm)

PINE FOREST CHARTER SCHOOL

1120 W. Kaibab Lane, Flagstaff, AZ  86001

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

3:30 p.m.

Monday, February 7^th, 2011

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Pursuant to Arizona revised Statutes (A.R.S. 38-431.02), notice is hereby given to the members of the Pine Forest Charter School Governing Board, and to the general public, that the Governing Board will hold a public meeting, open to the public as specified below in the designated board meeting room at Pine Forest Charter School, Flagstaff, AZ.  The Board reserves the right to change the order of items on the agenda, with the exception of public hearings set for a specific time.

Pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.03.A.2, the Board may vote to go into Executive Session, which will not be open to the public, for legal advice concerning any item on the agenda, for protection of confidentiality of parties or to review, discuss and consider records exempt by law from public inspection, including the receipt and discussion of information or testimony that is specifically required to be maintained as confidential by state or federal law.

DATED AND POSTED this _____day of ____________2011.

By_______________________________________

Michael Heffernan, Director

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Regular Board Meeting

I.   WELCOME

A. Verse: The Social Ethic:  The healthy social life is found when in the mirror of each human soul the                                                                         whole community finds its reflection; and when in the community the virtue of each one                                                                         is living.

B.  Roll Call:   G. Schniewind_____  P. Giovale_____S. Mushro_____K.Bade______

A. Gorman_____T. Ajaski_____M. Heffernan_____ M Polack_____

C.  Approval of Agenda

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:  December 6^th, 2010 & January 7^th, 2011 Regular Meetings

III. CALL TO THE PUBLIC (This is the time for the public to comment.  Members of the Board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda.  Therefore, pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.01.G., action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter, responding to any criticism, or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date.)

IV. REPORTS

A.  PTA:  President Amanda Bowling

B.  Development Director:  Elayna Langbecker

C.  Faculty:  Members Trish Ajaski and Anke Gorman

D.            College of Teachers: Member Marcy Polack

E.  Treasurer: Member Sara Mushro

F.  Administration:

1.   Enrollment:  259 FTE/243 (16, 29, 29, 33,30,31,27, 32, 14, 18)

2.   Charter Renewal Letter/Signature Needed by Charter Representative

3.   Further financial updates: Georgia Taylor (Care Programs); Kate Mareck (Preschool);

Operational budget mid-year meeting; Race to Nowhere; student activity fee 115 total;

$33,712 total from 2010 tax credit and activity fee

V. ACTION ITEMS-Discussion and possible action (The Board may elect to convene an Executive Session for protection of confidentiality of parties.  No formal action can take place at this time.  Any further consideration of the topic will be placed as an agenda item for a future Board meeting.  At the conclusion of the Executive Session, the Board will adjourn the executive session with no action being taken.)

1. Action to approve vouchers: ev11007 (Jan.’10), & pv 1107 (Jan.’10).
2. Action to approve Compassionate Transfer of Leave Policy 617.15
3. Action with Rudolf Steiner Foundation
4. Action to remove Robert Baker as charter representative
5. Action to add new charter representative

VI. PERSONNEL (The Board may vote to convene in Executive Session.)

A.     Contract teacher statement of intentions

B.     School counselor position

C.     Class assistant updates

D.

VII. ADJOURN (Next Regular Board meeting:  Monday, March 7^th, 2011, 3:30 pm)