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SPCSA executive director previews legislative tracking, outlines AB 39 changes and wind‑down audits for closed schools
Summary
Executive Director provided the board with the SPCSA's legislative tracking, highlighted pre‑filed bill AB 39 that would require charter sponsors to serve as LEAs, and updated the board on wind‑down audits and outstanding PERS penalties for two previously closed schools.
Executive Director Melissa Mackinnon gave the board an update on SPCSA activities, legislative tracking and closeout work for recently closed schools.
Legislative tracking and AB 39
Mackinnon told the board staff are tracking pre‑filed bills and provided the board a link to the list in the meeting materials. She singled out AB 39 (a pre‑filed bill included in the packet), which the staff summarized as having three primary changes: clarifying membership and age requirements for voting SPCSA board members; requiring each charter school sponsor to serve as the local education agency (LEA) for the charter schools it authorizes; and removing redundancies in the charter renewal process. Mackinnon said the agency included a link to the bill in the packet and would bring specific bills to the board when a hearing or substantive change warranted attention.
Wind‑down audits and PERS updates
Mackinnon also updated the board on the wind‑down and audit work for two recently closed schools (Teach and EGLE in the transcript). She said the schools are working with CliftonLarsonAllen on financial wind‑down audits and noted the agencies have been conducting typical closeout accounting tasks, such as issuing W‑2s. Mackinnon reported PERS had informed staff that Teach had satisfied its PERS obligations except for approximately $9,800 in assessed penalties and that EGLE had a remaining assessed penalty of approximately $4,000; both entities intend to request relief from the retirement board consistent with PERS policy. Mackinnon said staff would continue to manage vendor requests and would provide further detail when the auditors’ final reports are complete.
Other items
Mackinnon also highlighted site evaluation findings at Nevada State High School and described a consolidated historical enrollment spreadsheet in the packet that breaks down subgroup enrollment trends by campus (free and reduced lunch, ELL, special education, homeless, foster, migrant and 504 groups). She told board members that two schools remained on the SPCSA list for outstanding PERS payments and that staff are collecting monthly PERS contributions for new schools to limit future problems.
