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Transportation staff told the committee they completed 98% of vehicle inspections on time for the 2024-25 year; the four late inspections were attributed to vendor turnaround and clerical/system logging errors and were completed once identified.
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District staff said RFP #26009 for independent auditors was posted 11/20 and is due Dec. 19 at 10 a.m.; evaluation materials will be handed out Jan. 5 and scoring discussed Jan. 12. Presenters also outlined plans to raise signature-authority limits tied to a new ERP system.
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External auditors issued an unmodified (clean) opinion on the districts FY2025 financial statements and reported no material weaknesses; single-audit procedures over $33 million in federal awards remain in process with one program still being finalized.
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Chief technology officer Greg reported a Dec. 11 outage that left Infinite Campus, PeopleSoft, phone and identity systems unavailable for "2 hours and 40 minutes"; IT produced a six-page incident report and listed device and attack volumes for the district.
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Superintendent Chris Godowsky opened the meeting by showing a video featuring STEM Launch principal Kate Claver and students’ project-based learning. Godowsky said district MAP data show median growth at or above the 60th percentile in most grades and noted high free-and-reduced-lunch rates at STEM Launch and across the district.
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Parent Vita Malama told the board she filed an instructional materials complaint and FERPA and CORA requests after a seventh-grade health unit at STEM Lab School showed a video with depictions of cocaine, heroin and injection use that she says were not disclosed to parents; the superintendent offered follow-up and staff contacts.
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Staff presented several superintendent-evaluation models, including a rubric-based 'New York' option and a Dallas-weighted approach emphasizing student achievement. The board asked for prior evaluation documents and discussion of weighting; the board also adopted its legislative platform and approved minutes, personnel actions and an expulsion settlement.
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District staff presented a reimagined charter monitoring framework called STAR (schoolwide trends and accountability review) to inform monitoring report 2.9 and renewal decisions; concern ratings will trigger action plans and recurring issues will be made public in an annual report.
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At the Dec. 1 meeting the board administered oaths to newly elected directors, elected Lori Goldstein as board president and Amerisad/Amara Assad Lucas as vice president by roll call, and approved appointments for secretary, assistant secretary and treasurer.
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Policy advisors briefed the board on a projected $840M–$1B state revenue shortfall, governor proposals including Medicaid changes and possible revenue measures, and several education-related bill rumors; staff urged directors to prepare advocacy and offered upcoming briefings.