Charter Board Agendas and Minutes
2025-2026 Minutes
- September 16, 2025
- October 7, 2025
- November 4, 2025
- December 2, 2025
- January 6, 2026
- February 3, 2026
- March 4, 2026
- April 7, 2026
- May 5, 2026
September 16, 2025
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Coleen Shaw, Katie Lange, Deb Straw and Tammy DeGarmo
- Missing: Ashley Bertelsen, Lisa Conry, and Bonnie Stalker
- Called to order: 3:19 PM
- Acceptance of May 2025 minutes
- Motion to approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- Introduction and acceptance of Katie Lange to RRCS Board
- Replacing Tony Lindowski
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- APPROVED
- Replacing Tony Lindowski
- Student of the Month Recipients
- Lilly Vance(AltEd)
- Introduction of RRCS staff members
- Andrea Hull-AltEd Teacher
- LaShell Smith-Special Education Teacher
- Avery Westrich-El Teacher
- Craig Kind-Paraprofessional
- Kalyan Pa-Paraprofessional
- New Teacher Spotlight
- LaShell Smith
- Working with Janesville for 19 years
- Special Education Teacher
- Is enjoying working with the senior level students
- LaShell Smith
- Student of the Month nominations for September
- Tianna Cervantes(GED02)
- Ava Bradford(RAMP)
- Javier Perez(E-Learning)
- Collin Murphy(AltEd)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- APPROVED
- Scholarship Recipients-Did they attend?
- 3 out 5 were confirmed to have been used.
- Jimena Guzman attended UW-Rock
- Maliya Rochester attended St.Cloud State in MN
- Armonie Vance attended at UW-Rock
- The other 2 recipients have been reached out to,we just haven’t heard back yet.
- 3 out 5 were confirmed to have been used.
- Teacher Appreciation 2026
- Dr. Peterson was asking if the board members would like to participate in the 25-25 school years Teacher Appreciation celebration?
- Board is asking to keep on the agenda for next month(October)
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: David Schollmeier
- Books and Bingo
- November 11, 2026
- 6:00 - 7:00 PM
- Looking for help with creating baskets to give away as prizes or help running the event?
- Pizza and drinks will be served
- Approval of Women’s Grant Submission
- Motion to Approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the Motion: Katie Lange
- APPROVED
- Funding: would RRCS Board want to do any fundraising for Kwik Rip gift cards
- Bags of Hope fundraiser going on right now
- 25-26 Committees–Maintain/Restructure/Disband
- RRCS 2024/2025 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- 2025 Graduation Celebration Review
- Things went well
- Ran very smoothly
- Very grateful to have the officers this year
- Announcements
- NONE
- Confirm May 2025 Board Meeting
- Date: October 7, 2025
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:40 PM
October 7, 2025
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Katie Lange, Deb Straw
- Missing: Ashley Bertelsen, Lisa Conry,Bonnie Stalker, Tammy DeGarmo and Coleen Shaw
- Called to order: 3:19 PM
- President Gary Hilt brought forward four topics to be discussed at the November board meeting.
- Acceptance of September 2025 minutes
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- APPROVED
- Student of the Month Recipients
- Tianna Cervantes(GED02)
- Ava Bradford(RAMP)
- Javier Perez(E-Learning)-Not able to attend do to a family issue
- Collin Murphy(AltEd)
- New Teacher Spotlight
- Andrea Hull
- Title 1 Math Teacher
- Andrea Hull
- Student of the Month nominations for October
- Jeneya Turner(AltEd)
- Kingmonte “Monte” Moore(E-Learning)
- Mariah Nelson(GED02)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- APPROVED
- Scholarship Recipients-Did they attend?
- Per Katie Lange, Beyonce Jimenez-Aranda has not yet enrolled at BTC.
- Scholarships at BTC at good for a year after they graduate
- Teacher Appreciation 2026
- The board will recognize the teachers and do something for them. Will talk about it as the time gets closer.
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: David Schollmeier
- The board will recognize the teachers and do something for them. Will talk about it as the time gets closer.
- Books and Bingo-Requesting donations
- Board ok with 16:49 helping out
- Funding: would RRCS Board want to do any fundraising for Kwik Trip gift cards
- Board members will need to talk about how they want to work Kwik Trip cards for Student of the Month at the November meeting.
- Are they keeping the cards?
- 25-26 Committees–Maintain/Restructure/Disband
- President Gary Hilt will send out an email to all the board members to see which board members still would like to be active and see what their attentions are.
- President Gary Hilt will also be send out the Bylaws of the Rock River Charter School Board to all the board members
- RRCS 2025/2026 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Grant Pakes, one of our GED02 students did a great job speaking on our behalf at the Janesville School Board Meeting on 9/23/25.
- Confirm May 2025 Board Meeting
- Date: November 4, 2025
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:40 PM
November 4, 2025
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Coleen Shaw, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Katie Lange, Ashley Bertelsen, Tammy DeGarmo
- Missing: Lisa Conry, Bonnie Stalker
- Called to order: 3:15
- Acceptance of October 2025 minutes
- David Schollmeier motions to strike that “Beyonce Jimenez-Aranda has not used her scholarship and has not yet enrolled at BTC” from the October 2025 minutes to “Beyonce Jimenez-Aranda has not yet enrolled at BTC”.
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- APPROVED
- Student of the Month Recipients
- Jeneya Turner(AltEd)
- Kingmonte “Monte” Moore(E-Learning)-Didn’t show up
- Mariah Nelson(GED02)
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- Need to work with Coleen and Katheen to come up with dates to get together.
- Katie suggested joining efforts with combining scholarship and FAFSA help to the students at one time.
- November 11th from 5:00 - 6:30 PM is FAFSA Night at RRCS
- Talked about coming in to do FAFSA with the classes too.
- Fundraising
- Didn’t meet
- Scholarships
- Review the Rock River Charter School “Charter School Contract”
- Reviewed
- Discussed
- Review Bylaws of The Rock River Charter School Board
- Reviewed
- Discussed
- Does the Board want to create its own mission statement?
- Motion to approve no change required to the mission statement in the Bylaws of the Rock River Charter School Board: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- APPROVED
- Role and Responsibilities of Fundraising as the RRCS Board
- Talked about the responsibilities needing to be more clearly defined
- Lisa Peterson and Tammy DeGarmo are going to come up with a date and see who on the board can join.
- Work on a proposal with the committee to present to the Board
- Student of the Month nominations for November
- Drake Utterburg(AltEd)
- Taveon Chan(E-Learning)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: David Schollmeier
- APPROVED
- Teacher Appreciation May 2026
- Moving to March agenda
- RRCS 2025/2026 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Winter Break Bags
- Packing Date: December 12, 2025
- Time: 1:00 PM
- Winter Break Bags
- Confirm December 2025 Board Meeting
- Date: December 2, 2025
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:43 PM
December 2, 2025
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Coleen Shaw, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Katie Lange
- Missing: Lisa Conry, Lisa Peterson, Ashley Bertelsen, Tammy DeGarmo
- Called to order: 3:22 PM
- Acceptance of November 2025 minutes
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: David Schollmeier
- APPROVED
- Student of the Month Recipients
- Drake Utterburg(AltEd)
- Taveon Chan(E-Learning)
- Accept Resignation of Bonnie Stalker from RRCS Board
- Motion to accept: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- ACCEPTED
- Gary Hilt will send out a gratitude of service to Bonnie
- Dave will get Gary Bonnie’s address
- Recruiting an additional board member
- Looking for possibly 2 new members
- Word of mouth is the way to go.
- Think of people with possible interest and report back next month
- Looking for possibly 2 new members
- Meet the new staff: Avery Westrich
- New EL Teacher
- Been with JSD for 8 years
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- Giving group presentations January 22nd.
- Jane and Deb will Present in the AM/Gary will present in the PM
- February 12th the committee will come and help assist student with the application process
- April __ is the due date for all scholarship applications
- Giving group presentations January 22nd.
- Fundraising
- Didn’t meet
- Scholarships
- Review proposal from Fundraising Committee
- Reviewed
- Discussed
- Student of the Month nominations for December
- Axavior Holmberg(AltEd)
- Max Hevel(GED02)
- Ayla Wobig(E-Learning)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the motion: Katie Lange
- APPROVED
- We have 11 gift cards left after today
- Packing of Winter Break Bags
- December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
- Survey was done and 62 students said yes to break bags
- 75 break bags will be packed
- Reports out on:
- Books and Bingo
- Huge success- Double the attendance from last year
- 6 families went home with gift baskets made by 16:49
- College Night
- Not well attended
- Looking to do things differently next year
- FAFSA Night
- Help the same night as Books and Bingo
- 6 successful completed FAFSA applications
- Books and Bingo
- RRCS 2025/2026 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Scoopie Night at Midland Culver’s
- Date: December 16, 2025
- 4:00 - 6:00 PM Shift- Jane and Deb
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM shift- Gary and Coleen
- Date: December 16, 2025
- Scoopie Night at Midland Culver’s
- Confirm January 2026 Board Meeting
- Date: January 6, 2026
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 3:54 PM
January 6, 2026
January 6, 2026
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Coleen Shaw, Heather Dyer, Tammy DeGarmo, David Schollmeier, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Katie Lange, Lisa Peterson
- Missing: Gary Hilt, Lisa Conry, Ashley Bertelsen
- Called to order: 3:19 PM
- Acceptance of December 2025 minutes
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: David Schollmeier
- APPROVED
- Student of the Month Recipient
- Axavior Holmberg(AltEd)-NO SHOW
- Max Hevel(GED02)
- Ayla Wobig(E-Learning-NO SHOW
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- January 22nd- Classroom Application Visits(AM and PM)
- February 12th- Board Open Lab to help fill out applications(Am and PM)
- March 3rd- Board will be given student applications to review
- March 10th- RRCS Staff Meeting–Lisa Peterson will request staff to complete a recommendation application Google Form by 3:00 PM on March 13th.
- March 13th-
- Staff deadline for recommendations
- Lisa Peterson will email the staff recommendations to the Board
- April 7th- Board Selection
- Fundraising
- Didn’t meet
- Scholarships
- Board Member Lisa Conway-should she be removed from the board?
- All agreed that Tammy DeGarmo will try to contact Lisa before removing.
- How is recruiting an additional board member going?
- Still looking for possibly 2 new members
- Tammy DeGarmo will look into the Leadership Development Academy list
- Lisa Peterson will reach out to Kianna Byrd to try to get a possible community member from Wiggy’s Saloon or if they know someone from the community that would be interested.
- Still looking for possibly 2 new members
- Student of the Month nominations for December
- Austin Sisko- (E-Learning)
- Isabelle Quaerna- (RAMP)
- Gia Jaramillo De La O- (AltEd)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- APPROVED
- We have 13 gift cards left after today
- Packing of Winter Break Bags
- 75 break bags were packed and distributed
- The kids were very happy and appreciative of the donations
- RRCS 2025/2026 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- RRCS Scoopie Night at Court Street Culver’s
- Date: January 12, 2025
- 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Date: January 12, 2025
- Reality Check at RRCS
- Date: February 13, 2026
- 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM
- Date: February 13, 2026
- RRCS Scoopie Night at Court Street Culver’s
- Confirm February 2026 Board Meeting
- Date: February 3, 2026
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 3:59 PM
February 3, 2026
February 3, 2026
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Coleen Shaw, Heather Dyer, Tammy DeGarmo, David Schollmeier, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Katie Lange, Lisa Peterson, Ashley Bertelsen
- Missing: Gary Hilt, Lisa Conry
- Called to order: 3:17 PM
- Acceptance of January 2026 minutes
- Motion to approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the motion: David Schollmeier
- APPROVED
- Student of the Month Recipient
- Austin Sisko- (E-Learning)
- Isabelle Quaerna- (RAMP)
- Gia Jaramillo De La O- (AltEd)
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- How did the scholarship presentations go?
- Gave a way to sign up for help with a QR code to help students on February 12th fill out scholarships.
- 1 scholarship application came through already
- How did the scholarship presentations go?
- Fundraising
- Tammy DeGarmo will get the list of places out that board members have visited so no one visits places twice.
- Tammy DeGarmo will also update the RRCS donation letter and send it to Heather Dyer to send out to all the board members.
- Scholarships
- Spring Break Bags
- 45 break bags were packed and distributed last school year
- It would be nice to distribute 45 or 50 bags this school year
- Packing of the bags will be March 13th
- Board Member Lisa Conway-should she be removed from the board?
- Tammy DeGarmo reached out to Lisa and she said she is definitely still interested in staying on the Board if possible. Will be staying on.
- How is recruiting an additional board member going?
- Meet and Greet potential board member Teri Holznecht
- Wants to think about it and will be back to us in a week or so to let us know if we should put it on the March Board Meeting Agenda.
- Meet and Greet potential board member Teri Holznecht
- Student of the Month nominations for December
- Zay Jones Spivey(AltEd)
- Hunter Watkins(E-Learning)
- Janiya Davis(GED02)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- APPROVED
- We have 11 gift cards left after today
- RRCS 2025/2026 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Lisa Peterson will be looking into a few questions that Deb Straw had about the scholarship that she forgot to ask earlier:
- Does the scholarship cover cosmetology school?
- If you are going into trades can the scholarship funds go towards buying tools?
- Lisa Peterson will be looking into a few questions that Deb Straw had about the scholarship that she forgot to ask earlier:
- Confirm March 2026 Board Meeting
- Date: March 3, 2026
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:13 PM
March 4, 2026
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Gary Hilt, Coleen Shaw, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Katie Lange, Lisa Peterson, Ashley Bertelsen
- Missing: Lisa Conry and Tammy DeGarmo
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Approval of New Board Member Teri Holznecht
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- APPROVED
- Acceptance of February 2026 minutes
- Motion to approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- APPROVED
- Student of the Month Recipient
- Zay Jones Spivey(AltEd)-NO SHOW
- Hunter Watkins(E-Learning)
- Janiya Davis(GED02)
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- March 13th- Teacher referrals for students applying for scholarships are due
- Gary Hilt will be sending out the rubric to the board members to evaluate the scholarship applicants.
- Fundraising
- Did not meet
- Scholarships
- Spring Break Bags
- Packing of the bags will be March 13th
- 1:00 PM
- Packing of the bags will be March 13th
- Student of the Month nominations for March 2026
- Tyanna Chan(E-Learning)
- Evan Bucklin(GED02)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- APPROVED
- We have 9 gift cards left after today
- RRCS 2025/2026 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- RRCS Scoopie Night
- Date: March 4, 2026
- Time: 4:00 - 8:00 PM
- Where: Culver’s on Court Street
- RRCS Scoopie Night
- Confirm March 2026 Board Meeting
- Date: April 7, 2026
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 3:45 PM
April 7, 2026
April 7, 2026
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Gary Hilt, Coleen Shaw, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Katie Lange, Lisa Peterson, Ashley Bertelsen, Teri Holznecht
- Missing: Lisa Conry and Tammy DeGarmo
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Acceptance of March 2026 minutes
- Motion to approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- APPROVED
- Student of the Month Recipient
- Tyanna Chan(E-Learning)
- Evan Bucklin(GED02)
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- Rubric and Application discussion:
- Updating will need to happen in future for both documents.
- The board will be putting a list of questions together to see if there are certain questions or formatting that can be changed on the schools part.
- Scholarship Review and Vote
- Scholarships reviewed
- Scholarship vote for 3 $1000.00 Adam Silha Scholarships and 1 $500.00 BTC Scholarship.
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Terri Holznecht
- APPROVED
- Rubric and Application discussion:
- Fundraising
- Did not meet
- Scholarships
- Spring Break Bags
- Went well and the students were very appreciative
- 49 bags went out in total
- Went well and the students were very appreciative
- Scoopie Night-April 8, 2026
- Jane Dooley and Teri Holznecht: 4:00-6:00 PM
- Deb Straw and Lisa Conry: 6:00-8:00 PM
- Student of the Month nominations for April 2026
- Al Posey(E-Learning)
- Eliomar (Eli) Santiago Colon(RAMP)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the motion: Katie Lange
- APPROVED
- Graduation Duties
- Date and Time:
- Tuesday, May 26th
- 5:00-7:30ish
- Location: Craig High School
- If board members are available to help with graduation duties/tasks that would be helpful.
- Date and Time:
- RRCS 2025/2026 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- None discussed
- Confirm May 2026 Board Meeting
- Date: May 5, 2026
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:18 PM
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Gary Hilt, Coleen Shaw, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Jane Dooley, Deb Straw, Katie Lange, Lisa Peterson, Ashley Bertelsen, Teri Holznecht
- Missing: Lisa Conry and Tammy DeGarmo
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Acceptance of April 2026 minutes
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Ashley Bertelsen
- APPROVED
- Student of the Month Recipient
- Al Posey(E-Learning)
- Eliomar (Eli) Santiago Colon(RAMP)-Didn’t show up
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- Rubric, Discussion, and Determination: Application evaluation and scoring metric
- Jane Dooley motions to score 0-5, with no multiplier
- Katie Lange seconds the motion
- APPROVED
- Rubric, Discussion, and Determination: Application evaluation and scoring metric
- Fundraising
- Did not meet
- Scholarships
- Graduation Duties
- Date: Tuesday, May 26th
- Time: 5:00 - 7:30ish PM
- Duties
- Handing out programs
- Deb Straw
- Jane Dooley
- Teri Holznecht
- Ashley Bertelsen
- Welcome Address
- Gary Hilt
- Greeter
- Katie Lange
- Handing out programs
- Duties
- Student of the Month nominations for May 2026
- Dashan Wilson(AltEd)
- Lily Winkelman(GED02)
- Raven Tadder(E-Learning)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- APPROVED
- We have 3 gift cards left after today
- RRCS 2025/2026 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- John Schwank, the Academic Learning Specialist will be leaving and starting a new adventure with ARISE as their 6th teacher.
- Lindsey Slatter will be joining our team starting in August as our Graduation Coach
- Robin Wauchop, our GED02 teacher was named NAREN Teacher of the Month.
- Gary Hilt has decided to step down as President of the RRCS Board
- Confirm May 2026 Board Meeting
- Date: September 1, 2026
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:09 PM
Previous Years Minutes
2024-2025
2024-2025 Minutes
- March 4, 2025
- February 4, 2025
- January 7, 2025
- December 3, 2024
- November 8, 2024
- October 1, 2024
- September 5, 2024
March 4, 2025
- Committees at 2:45 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Bonnie Stalker, Jane Dooley, Tammy DeGarmo, Deb Straw, Ashley Bertelsen
- Missing: Tony Landowski, Lisa Conry
- Called to order: 3:16 PM
- Acceptance of February 2025 minutes
- Motion to approve: Dave Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- Recognition of January Student of the Month
- Amani Potter(AltEd)
- Elizabeth Nolan(RAMP)
- Student of the Month nominations
- Thomas Rhodes
- Lesean Thomas
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: Jane Dooley
- Second the motion: Bonnie Stalker
- Adam Silha Scholarship update for Lydia McCarten
- ALL 2023-2024 scholarship recipients have taken advantage of the scholarships.
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- 10 applicants have applied
- Staff references/recommendations have been done
- Fundraising/Grant Writing
- Letters have been distributed to local restaurants for help to get donations for gift cards for our spring break bags.
- Working on following up
- Scholarships
- Spring Break Bags
- We will be distributing 45 bags
- 1 bag per child
- Bags will contain food and gift cards
- Donations in by 3:00 PM on 3/17
- Packing bags at 2:00 on 3/18
- Distributing them on 3/19 and 3/20
- We will be distributing 45 bags
- Graduation Info
- Board President to be a speaker on stage
- We may or may not have a student speaker-Still to be determined
- Graduation Date: Wednesday, June 4th at Craig High School
- RRCS 2024/2025 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- None at this time
- Confirm April 2025 Board Meeting
- Date: April 1, 2025
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 3:43 PM
February 4, 2025
- Committees at 2:45 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Bonnie Stalker, Jane Dooley, Tammy DeGarmo, Deb Straw, Ashley Bertelsen, Lisa Conry
- Missing: Tony Landowski
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Acceptance of January 2024 minutes
- Motion to approve: Bonnie Stalker
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- Recognition of November Student of the Month
- Naomi Phillips(out due to illness)
- Taveon Chan(AltEd)
- Mckenna Cooksey(AltEd)
- Chris Redd(E-Learning)
- Student of the Month nominations
- Amani Potter(AltEd)
- Elizabeth Nolan(RAMP)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: Dave Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Lisa Conry
- Sam Mercurio to discussAdam Silha Scholarship
- 2 out of the 3 2023-2024 scholarship recipients have taken advantage of the scholarships.
- Most likely would want someone at graduation to present again. Will get back to us and let us know for sure.
- ICE Protocol:
- A system has been put in place with the admin team
- A system has been put in place with the front desk
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- Jane, Deb and Gary come into RRCS on 1/29 to help with scholarship submissions.
- Jane and Deb worked with the AM session from 9-10 AM
- Gary worked with the PM session from 1-2 PM
- Jane, Deb and Gary come into RRCS on 1/29 to help with scholarship submissions.
- Fundraising/Grant Writing
- Drafting up a letter to distribute to local restaurants for help to get donations for gift cards for our spring break bags.
- Scholarships
- Spring Break Bags
- We will be distributing 45 bags
- 1 bag per child
- Bags will contain food and gift cards
- Google list of supplies needed will be sent out by Lisa Peterson
- We will be distributing 45 bags
- Graduation Info
- Board President to be a speaker on stage
- We may or may not have a student speaker-Still to be determined
- Graduation Date: Wednesday, June 4th at Craig High School
- RRCS 2024/2025 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- None at this time
- Confirm March 2025 Board Meeting
- Date: March 4, 2025
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:08 PM
January 7, 2025
- Committees at 2:45 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Bonnie Stalker, Jane Dooley, Tammy DeGarmo
- Missing: Tony Landowski, Ashley Bertelsen, Deb Straw
- Called to order: 3:19 PM
- Acceptance of December 2024 minutes
- Motion to approve: Dave Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- Recognition of November Student of the Month
- Naomi Phillips(out due to illness)
- Student of the Month nominations
- Taveon Chan(AltEd)
- Mckenna Cooksey(AltEd)
- Chris Redd(E-Learning)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: Bonnie Stalker
- Second the motion: Dave Schollmeier
- Our new Mascot is…..
- Rock River Ravens
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- Presentations happened on 1/7
- Jane and Gary have offered to come into RRCS on 1/29 to help with scholarship submissions.
- Jane will be doing the AM session from 9-10 AM
- Gary will be doing the PM session from 1-2 PM
- Fundraising/Grant Writing
- Did not meet
- Scholarships
- Holiday Break Bag-Reminder of Dates
- All break bags were distributed
- Kids were all appreciative
- Graduation Info
- Board President to be a speaker on stage
- We may or may not have a student speaker-Still to be determined
- Graduation Date: Wednesday, June 4th at Craig High School
- RRCS 2024/2025 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- None at this time
- Confirm February 2025 Board Meeting
- Date: February 4, 2025
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:07 PM
December 3, 2024
- Committees at 2:15 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Deb Straw, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Lisa Conry, Bonnie Stalker, Ashley Bertelsen, Jane Dooley
- Missing: Tony Landowski, Tammy DeGarmo
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Acceptance of November 2024 minutes
- Motion to approve: Lisa Conry
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- Recognition of November Student of the Month
- Dawn Thony(GED)
- Jeremiah Doyle(E-Learning)
- Student of the Month nominations
- Naomi Phillips
- Student of the Month Vote
- Motion to approve: David Schollmeier
- Second the motion: Bonnie Stalker
- Our new Mascot is…..
- Rock River Ravens
- Staff will help narrow the Raven image down
- Student will be able to pick the winner
- Committee Meetings
- Scholarships
- Presentations on 12/17
- 5 in AM
- 4 in PM
- These presentations will help the kids get educated about the scholarships and allow the kids times to sign up to fill out the applications.
- Presentations on 12/17
- Fundraising/Grant Writing
- Did not meet
- Scholarships
- Holiday Break Bag-Reminder of Dates
- Donations by December 9th
- Packing December 13th at 1:00PM
- Student Needs-Winter Items
- Winter hats, coats, and socks
- RRCS Amazon Wishlist
- Shared on social media
- RRCS 2024/2025 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Discussed
- Confirm January 2024 Board Meeting
- Date: January 7, 2024
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 3:47 PM
November 8, 2024
- Committees at 2:15 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Angela Burdette, Deb Straw, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Tammy DeGarmo, Jane Dooley, Ashley Bertelsen
- Missing: Tony Landowski, Lisa Conry, Bonnie Stalker, Lisa Peterson
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Acceptance of October 2024 minutes
- Moved to approve: Deb Straw
- Seconded the motion: Jane Dooley
- Recognition of October Student of the Month
- Jimena Guzman (Alt Ed)
- Matt Blevins (E-Learning)
- Danielle Bustos (GED O2)
- Student of the Month nominations
- Jeremiah Doyle(E-Learning)
- Dawn Thony(GED 02)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Moved to approve: Gary Hilt
- Seconded the motion: Deb Straw
- Committee Reports
- Scholarships
- Presentations about educating students on the scholarship process are going to be made by the board members on December 17th in the Kimball Center.
- Will be done in small groups in the AM and PM
- Deb Straw will send email to verify the times and dates
- Fundraising/Grant Writing
- Didn’t meet this month
- Scholarships
- 2025 Scholarship timeline for application process
- 2/28/2025: Application due
- 3/11/2025: Staff Meeting–Request for staff to complete application recommendation Google Form
- 3/17/2025: Applications & Staff recommendations will be sent to the board
- 4/1/2025: Board selections
- Nominations and Vote for RRCS Executive Board
- President Vote(Gary Hilt)
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: Jane Dooley
- Approved
- President Vote(Gary Hilt)
- Vice President Vote(Tammy DeGarmo)
- Motion to approve: Gary Hilt
- Second the motion: Deb Straw
- Approved
- Holiday Break Bag Information
- Donations by December 9, 2024
- Packing December 13th at 1:00 PM
- Culver’s Scoopie Night - MILTON AVE
- December 2, 2024
- RRCS 2024/2025 Budget
- Discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- We are voting on a new RRCS school Mascot
- Confirming December 2024 Board Meeting
- Date: December 3rd
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:02 PM
October 1, 2024
Tentatively Approved Items for Email vote sent 10/1
- Approval of the RRCS May 2024 Board Meeting Minutes
- Approval of the RRCS September 2024 Board Meeting Minutes
- Approval of Ashley Bertelson as a Board Member to replace Sheri as a Youth Justice Representative
- Approval of Jane Dooley as a Board Member as a retired GED Option 2 teacher from Milton.
- Approval of the three students nominated for September Students of the Month:
- Jimena Guzman (Alt Ed)
- Matt Blevins (E-Learning)
- Danielle Bustos (GED O2)
- Approval of the recommendation that the entire Governing Board will collaborate to select the 2025 Scholarship winners.
- Confirm November 2024 Board Meeting
- Date: November 7, 2024
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:12 PM
September 5, 2024
- Committees at 2:15 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Deb Straw, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Gary Hilt, Tammy DeGarmo, Cheri Sockheimer
- Missing: Tony Landowski, Lisa Conry, Bonnie Stalker
- Called to order: 3:16 PM
- Acceptance of May 2024 minutes
- Motion to approve: Deb Straw
- Second the motion: Cheri Stockheimer
- Recognition of May Student of the Month
- Emma Phonesavanh(RAMP/GED)
- Chasity Riniker(E-Learning)
- Colyn Riddle(RAMP)
- Recognition of New Staff:
- Chris Comella- Teaching in our RAMP program
- Enrollment update
- Currently have 256 students enrolled
- Could possibly could have 260 students by end of September
- Exploration of Competency Based Education
- 4 staff members will be attending the Aurora Institute in November. They will be Joining thousands of educator members including teachers, staff, and administrators implementing powerful, personalized learning opportunities for students.
- Will give updates after conference
- Womens Grant
- Will be submitting for our 3rd year in a row
- Scholarship Choice
- Talking about making just a scholarship committee or keeping the vote for the whole board to make a decision on scholarship winners
- Looking to get a follow up from the 2023-2024 scholarship winners
- Are they using the money?
- Are they still in school?
- Lisa will bring it to the leadership meeting to see if Teachers are willing to make contact or should the board members make contact? Will know more in October
- Inviting the Silha Family to the February meeting.
- 24-25 School Year Calendar Change
- No School Picnic in September
- RRCS 2024/2025 Budget
- Tammy DeGarmo(16:49) can help out with some baskets for our Raffle
- Candy Basket, Beauty Basket, Gift Card Basket, Headphones?
- Tammy DeGarmo(16:49) can help out with some baskets for our Raffle
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Jane Dooley will attend the October meeting for possibly joining the board?
- Cheri Stockheimer is retiring from the board in November.
- Bringing Ashley Bertelsem in for the October meeting for a meet and greet
- Tony Landowski
- Expressed desire to step down as President of the Board
- At the October meeting there will be a discussion and a vote on a possible new replacement?
- Confirm October 2024 Board Meeting
- Date: October 10, 2024
- Time: 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- Time: 4:10 PM
2023-2024
2023-2024 Minutes
- October 3, 2023
- September 5, 2023
- November 7, 2023
- December 5, 2023
- January 10, 2024
- February 6, 2024
October 3, 2023
- Committees at 2:15 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Gary Hilt, Deb Straw, Angela Burdette, Tony Landowski, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Lisa Conry, Cheri Stockheimer
- Missing: Tammy DeGarmo, Bonnie Stalker
- Called to Order: 3:15 PM
- Committee Reports
- Scholarships (Gary, Deb, Cheri)
- October 23rd at 9:30 am(E-Learning) and 9:45 am(GED), Gary and Deb will present overview of the 4 scholarships available to students
- Kathleen will help with making a google sign up sheet for the students
- Coleen will make slide show
- Fundraising (Tony, Lisa C.)
- Acceptance of September 2023 minutes
- Deb moved to approved
- Cheri seconded
- Approved
- Student of the month
- Angel Gregory (GED02 Program)
- New Staff Member introduction
- Randy Shaw: E-Learning Special Education Paraprofessional
- Community Foundation Grant
- Angela Burdette will be applying for the grant.
- Asking for $2,000 for Holiday Break Bags
- Angela will do bag inventory
- Culver's Scoopie Night- Court Street
- November 8, 2023
- February 6, 2024
- May 7, 2024
- Holiday Break Bags
- Donations in by December 15th
- Packing done on December 18th at 2:00 PM
- Budget discussed
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- Current enrollment: 257
- Current waiting list: 96
- Announcements
- Project 16:49 Fundraiser: Running to Benefit Students in Rock County
- Donation page on Facebook
- Confirming November 2023 Board Meeting
- November 7th
- 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- 3:54 PM
September 5, 2023
- Committees at 2:15
- Full Board at 3:15
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Gary Hilt, Deb Straw, Angela Burdette, Cheri Stockheimer, Bonnie Stalker, Tony Landowski, Heather Dyer
- Missing: Lisa Conry, Tammy DeGarmo, David Schollmeier
- Called to order 3:17 PM
- Committee Reports
- Scholarships (Gary, Deb, Cheri): Asking rep from each program to join the October meeting to get opinions on how the teachers would like to address students about the scholarships, what is needed to complete the process, and more. Lisa P. to send invites out.
- Fundraising (Tony, Lisa C.)
- Grant Writing (Tammy, Bonnie)
- Student of the month
- Next month will continue as we have in the past
- New staff members:
- Heather Dyer: Administrative Assistant
- Erin Bir: transition from special ed paraprofessional to Alt Ed Science teacher
- Vacancies
- 1 Paraprofessional position for the 3rd floor.
- New Scholarship Application Form
- Students complete online application
- Holiday Break Bags
- 50 students/2 break bags each
- Board will be packing the bags on December 18th
- Passing out the bags December 19th and 20th
- RRCS 2022/23 Budget discussed
- No strong concerns with budget
- Current RRCS Statistics
- Current enrollment: 234
- Last year enrollment: 245
- Current waiting list: 119
- Announcements
- Looking at the amount of members on the Board. Tony will be looking into trying to get another member through BEAM.
- Confirming of October 2023 Board Meeting
- October 3rd
- 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- 4:02 PM
November 7, 2023
- Committees at 2:15 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Lisa Peterson, Gary Hilt, Deb Straw, Angela Burdette, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Lisa Conry, Cheri Stockheimer
- Missing: Tammy DeGarmo, Bonnie Stalker
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Committee Reports
- Scholarships(Gary, Deb, Cheri)
- 12 students looking for help, will meet with 4 students each to help them with applications.
- March 15th is the deadline
- Scholarships(Gary, Deb, Cheri)
- Looking into doing a few short information sessions with newer students also.
- Acceptance of October 2023 minutes
- Deb moved to approve
- Dave seconded the motion
- Approved
- Recognition of Angel Gregory- October Student of the month
- GED02 Student
- Scheduled to ring the graduation bell 11/15/2023
- November Student of the Month Vote
- Nahum Tomas(E-Learning)
- Autum James(Ramp)
- Lacy Long(AltEd)
- Cody Brown(AltEd)
- Ronnieann Devalk(GED02)
- November Student of the Month Vote
- Cheri moved to approve
- Dave seconded the motion
- Approved
- New Staff Introduction
- Betsy Steuck- Has been with RRCS for 9 years and recently made a move to be RRCS’s Social Worker.
- Holiday Break Bags
- Grant was submitted by Angela Burdette. Asking for 2,000 for Holiday Break Bags
- Angela will do inventory on how many more bag we need
- December 18th at 2:00PM is set for packing the bags
- Culver’s Scoopie Night- Court Street
- November 15, 2023
- February 6, 2024
- May 7, 2024
- RRCS 2023/24 Budget
- Discussed
- RRCS Statistics
- Current enrollment: 250 students
- Waiting List: 149 Students
- Announcements
- RRCS has a wishlist currently on Amazon
- Going to get RRCS apparel order form out to the board members
- Confirming December Board Meeting
- December 5th
- 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- 3:55 PM
December 5, 2023
- Committees at 2:15 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Gary Hilt, Deb Straw, Angela Burdette, Tony Landowski, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Lisa Conry, Cheri Stockheimer, Bonnie Stalker
- Missing: Tammy DeGarmo
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Acceptance of November 2023 minutes
- Deb Straw moved to approve
- Gary Hilt seconded the motion
- Recognition of November Students of the month
- Nahum Tomas(E-Learning)
- Ronnieann DeValk(GED)
- December Student of the Month Vote
- Chaden Webb(AltEd)
- Kadin Schmidt(AltEd)
- Mildred Ratajczyk(AltEd)
- Matthew Proper(E-Learning)
- Kira Henning(RAMP)
- December Student of the Month Vote
- David Schollmeier moved to approve
- Cheri Stockheimer seconded the motion
- Approved
- New Staff Member Introduction
- Cassie Sympson- Cassie is our Special Ed Paraprofessional. She just transferred to RRCS from Franklin Middle School and has been with the district for 7 years.
- Committee Reports
- Scholarships (Gary, Deb, Cheri)
- 4 more scholarship applications were submitted. Board members will be reaching out to set up a date to meet for additional help with the process
- Will email students and copy the teachers on the email also.
- Fundraising/Grant Writing (Tony,David,Bonnie)
- Bonnie will be joining the fundraising committee next meeting
- Raffle for fundraiser was brought to the table
- Lisa will contact the school district to find out more information if it is something we can participate in or not.
- Start looking for grants to apply for for under $5,000??
- Holiday Break Bags- Reminder dates
- Donations by December 15th
- Packing December 18th @ 2:00
- Student of the Month Procedure Update
- An email to the student of the month will be notified through email.
- Certificates will be printed for each student.
- Students will get a picture taken with the Advisor that has nominated them.
- Letter will be sent home and parents will be invited to attend the recognition of Student of the Month on scheduled RRCS Board Meeting date.
- Kwik Trip cards will be given out to students that attend the Recognition at the RRCS Board Meeting.
- Title One Carry-Over Money
- PD opportunities
- Teachers will be looking at different math programs for ideas
- Ordering new books
- Culver’s Scoopie Night
- 1st Scoopie Night was a great success!!
- Next Scoopie Nights scheduled
- February 6, 2024
- May 7, 2024
- RRCS 2023/24 Budget
- Discussed
- Current RRCS Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Confirmation of January 2024 Board Meeting
- January 10, 2024
- 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- 4:08 PM
January 10, 2024
- Committees at 2:15 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Gary Hilt, Deb Straw, Tony Landowski, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Cheri Stockheimer, Tammy DeGarmo
- Missing: Angela Burdette, Lisa Conry, and Bonnie Stalker
- Called to order: 3:13 PM
- Acceptance of December 2023 minutes
- David Schollmeier moved to approve
- Deb Straw seconded the motion
- Recognition of December Student of the Month
- Chaden Webb(AltEd)
- Kadin Schmidt(AltEd)
- Mildred Ratajczyk(AltEd)
- Matthew Proper(E-Learning)
- Kira Henning(RAMP)
- Student of the Month nominations
- Mia Tracey(E-Learning)
- Araiyan Pann(AltEd)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Gary Hilt moved to approve
- Tammy DeGarmo seconded the motion
- Approved
- New Staff Member Introduction
- Ashley Miu-Alexander
- Ashley is in her 18th year of teaching. She splits her time between Parker in the AM and RRCS in the PM as our English Language Teacher. We are very happy to have Ashley as part of our team.
- Committee Reports
- Scholarships (Gary, Deb, Cheri)
- Following up with students to see if they are still interested in getting help with filling out the scholarship forms.
- Fundraising/Grant Writing (Tony,David,Bonnie,Tammy)
- Discussed
- Holiday Break Bags Recap
- 100 Bags were packed for 50 students
- All 100 bags were handed out
- Spring Break Bags
- Tammy DeGarmo moved to approve
- Cheri Stackheimer seconded the motion
- More to come on packing and distribution date
- Graduation Information
- New Location: Craig High School
- Date: Tuesday, May 28th
- Board member Gary Hilt will briefly speak and recognize the board members and all the partners that have helped and supported RRCS
- Culver’s Scoopie Night
- Next Scoopie Nights scheduled
- February 6, 2024
- May 7, 2024
- RRCS 2023/24 Budget
- Discussed
- Current RRCS Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Confirmation of February 2024 Board Meeting
- February 6, 2024
- 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- 4:17 PM
February 6, 2024
- Committees at 2:15 PM
- Full Board at 3:15 PM
- Attendance:
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Deb Straw, Tony Landowski, Heather Dyer, David Schollmeier, Cheri Stockheimer, Tammy DeGarmo, Angela Burdette, Lisa Conry
- Missing: Gary Hilt, Bonnie Stalker
- Called to order: 3:15 PM
- Recognition of January Student of the Month
- Matthew Proper(E-Learning)
- Mia Tracey(E-Learning)
- Araiyan Pann(AltEd)
- Acceptance of January 2023 minutes
- David Schollmeier moved to approve
- Tammie DeGarmo seconded the motion
- Student of the Month nominations
- Myah White(RAMP)
- Natyia Beckwith(E-LEarning)
- Student of the Month Vote
- Tammie DeGarmo moved to approve
- Lisa Conry seconded the motion
- Approved
- Committee Reports
- Scholarships (Deb, Cheri)
- 10 Students applied for scholarships
- Fundraising/Grant Writing (Tony,David,Bonnie,Tammy)
- Talked about possibly using Scoopie Night to raise money for Kwik Trip cards
- Talked about doing 50/50 raffles at possible events:
- Beloit Sky Carp
- National Night Out
- Farmers Market
- Sponsorship Letter feedback
- Letter was approved for distribution
- Local businesses' Donation sheet was emailed out by Lisa Pererson to the board members to keep track of who everyone is contacting.
- Talked about having targeted, intentional mailing of the letter
- Talked about approaching organizations/people personally and face to face
- Spring Break Bags
- Packing Date: March 11, 2024
- Distribution Date: March 13, 2024
- Asking for all donations to be in by March 7, 2024
- Graduation Information
- More updates to come at next meeting on March 5th
- Culver’s Scoopie Night
- Next Scoopie Nights scheduled
- May 7, 2024
- RRCS 2023/24 Budget
- Discussed
- Current RRCS Statistics
- Discussed
- Announcements
- Confirmation of March 2024 Board Meeting
- March 5, 2024
- 3:15 PM
- Adjournment
- 4:25 PM
2022-2023
- May 9, 2023
- April 11, 2023
- March 14, 2023
- February 14, 2023
- January 10, 2023
- December 13, 2022
- November 8, 2022
- October 11, 2022
- September 13, 2022
May 9, 2023
- Attendance:
- Attending: Gary Hilt, Deb Straw, Lisa Conry, Cheri Stockheimer, Tony Landowski, Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette
- Missing: David Schollmeier, Bonnie Stalker, Tammy DeGarmo
- Called to order 3:17
- Acceptance of April 2023 minutes
- Gary moved to approved
- Deb seconded
- Approved
- Introduction of April Students of the month
- Jesse Yates and Kanye Gellert
- James Payton-Quince attended
- May Student Nominations
- Brooklynn (Salem) Brereton
- Tywan Gates
- Crisitan Estrada
- Mariah Edge
- APproval
- Gary approved
- Deb seconded
- Motion passed
- Open Board Seat
- Deb will ask Marilyn Henrich
- Checked the bylaws -- we are within the 5 - 11 quote
- Committees
- Scholarships
- Lisa will create a draft and send it out by September Meeting
- Fundraisers
- Critical need with decreased
- Grant Writing
- Carrie Kulinski is going to help find possible grants
- 23-24 meetings
- Committees to meet before Board Meeting
- 2:15 if there is business
- 1st Tuesday of the month, at 3:15
- Motion
- Tony motioned
- Sheri secondedee
- Graduation Duties
- Tammy -- second floor supervision
- Tony -- hall monitoring / event clean up
- Gary -- greeters
- Deb -- Hand Out Programs
- Lisa -- Hand Out Programs
- 23-24 Calendar
- Tony approved
- Gary seconded
- Motion passed
- Student of the Month Gift
- Budget $720
- $20
- Kwik Trip
- 4 programs nominating 1 student
- Tammy mentioned last meeting that there is a way to get gift cards donated
- Raise from $10 to $20
- Deb motioned
- Lisa seconded the motion
- Passed
- To receive, students will attend in person or virtually or send a video clip
- Gary motioned
- Lisa seconded
- Passes
- Tony will contact Tammy to contact Tammy DeGarmo to ask her to submit Kwik Trip to ask for cards
- Budget discussed
- Statistics
- Sept 4
- Committees at 2:15
- Meeting at 3:15
- Adjourned
- Cheri motioned to adjourn
- Gary seconded
April 11, 2023
- Attendance
- Attending: Gary Hilt, Bonnie Stalker, Deb Straw, Lisa Conry, Cheri Stockheimer, Tony Landowski, Tammy DeGarmo, Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette and Laurie Jones
- Missing: David Schollmeier, Shannon Moloney
- Acceptance of March 14, 2023 minutes
- Motioned by Bonnie Stalker
- Seconded by Cherit Stockheimer
- Approved
- Introduction of February Students of the Month
- Summery Tracy - not able to attend
- Daiton Baior - not able to attend
- Mason Strom - attended might go into HVAC after graduation
- March Student of the Month
- Jesse Yates
- Kanye Gellert
- James Payton-Quince
- Student of the month vote
- Motioned by Tammy DeGarmo
- Seconded by Lisa Conry
- Approved
- Trial Cohort - Run by GED team
- Brought in 8 students
- If they complete the trial period, they’ll have a seat in the fall here at RRCS
- Students came from waiting list, most of them are siblings
- Assignment of board members to committees
- Grant Writing: Tammy DeGarmo, Bonnie Stalker
- Fundraising: Lisa Conry, Tony Landowski
- Scholarships: Gary Hilt, Deb Straw and Cheri Stockheimer
- Decisions will be made by the board and not the scholarship committee. The committee will help students fill out the scholarship applications
- Approval of Committees:
- Motioned by Gary Hilt
- Seconded by Deb Straw
- Approved
- May 4th Update (25th Anniversary)
- This event has been canceled
- Maybe do a small luncheon with leaders in the Janesville area to let them learn about us
- Scholarship Review and Vote
- Scholarships reviewed
- Some applications didn’t have a statement, so it was hard to compare the four applicants. Scholarship committee will revamp the application
- BTC $500 Scholarship goes to Faith Dickman
- Motioned by Gary Hilt
- Seconded by Deb Straw
- Approved
- Adam Silha $1,000 goes to Mercades Akkerman
- Motioneb by Bonnie Stalker
- Seconded by Cheri Stockheimer
- Approved
- Adam Silha $1,000 goes to Tyler Mitchell
- Motioned by Cheri Stockheimer
- Seconded by Bonnie STalker
- Approved
- Adam Silha $500 goes to Angel Emery
- Motioned by: Cheri Stockheimer
- Seconded by: Bonnie Stalker
- Approved
- Kwik Trip Cards
- We have enough to finish this year, but need money raised for cards next year
- Fundraising committee will work on this for the next school year
- Should we increase the amount to $15 or $20?
- RRCS 2022/23 Budget
- 2023 RRCS Improvement Needs
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- 101 Graduates with more tomorrow
- 95.4% Success rate
- Announcements
- Dave Schollmeier taking medical leave for the rest of this year. Would like to stay on the board and would like to see if the board meetings can be moved to another day. Will talk about next board meeting
- Confirm May Hybrid Board Meeting
- May 9, 2023
- Time 3:15pm
- Adjournment at 4:38
March 14, 2023
- Attendance
- Attending: Gary Hilt, Tony Landoswki, Tammy DeGarmo, Lisa Conry, Bonnie Stalker, Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette and Laurie Jones
- Missing: Deb Straw, Shannon Moloney, David Schollmeier and Cheri Stockheimer
- Acceptance of February 14, 2023 minutes
- Motioned by Bonnie Stalker
- Seconded by Gary Hilt
- Approved
- Introduction of January Students of the Month
- TK Carter - GED
- Jaheem Chance - E-Learning - Not present
- Toby Heine - GED
- Faith Puckett - RAMP
- February Student of the Month nominations
- Summer Tracy - RAMP
- Daiton Baior - E-Learning
- Mason Strom - GED
- Student of the month vote
- Motioned by Gary Hilt
- Seconded by Lisa Conroy
- Approved
- Graduation Sign up and duties
- Assignment of Committees:
- Grant writing
- To write and apply for grants for RRCS
- Fundraising
- Look at ways to support and raise money for RRCS
- Donation form and letter are done and ready for distribution
- Scholarships
- Reviewing applications and making decisions
- Approval for the three committees
- Motioned by Tammy DeGarmo
- Seconded by Bonnie Stalker
- Approved
- RRCS 25th Anniversary Meeting Date
- March 27th - 2:00 PM planning meeting
- Will be held here at RRCS in the Kimball Center
- Donation form and letter are done and ready for distribution
- Amazon Wish List Update
- https://www.amazon.com/registries/custom/7K3Y91HRY1K5/guest-view
- Leadership team might make a new list of items needed
- Angie Burdette has sent a letter to everyone who’s donated and had an address
- RRCS 2022-23 Budget
- 2023 RRCS Improvement Needs
- Current Rock River Charter School Statistics
- 88 graduates to date, with 9 graduating tomorrow
- 95% success rate
- Third highest free and reduced lunch rate in the district
- Announcements
- School Board meeting tonight where RRCS will present our school, please attend if you can. Starts at 6pm arrive at 5:30pm
- Confirm April 2023 Board hybrid Meeting
- April 11, 2023
- Time: 3:15 p.m.
- Adjournment at 4:16 p.m.
February 14, 2023
- Attendance
- Attending: Deb Straw, Gary Hilt, Angela Burdette, Tammy DeGarmo, Shannon Moloney, Lisa Conry, Cheri Sockheimer, Lisa Peterson and Laurie Jones
- Missing: David Schollmeier, Bonnie Stalker and Tony Landowski
- Acceptance of January 10, 2023 minutes
- Motioned by Gary Hilt
- Seconded by Cheri Stockheimer
- Approved
- Introduction of December Students of the Month
- Cameron Castrogiovanni - Can’t attend, morning student
- Skylee Knipfel - graduated
- January Student of the Month nominations
- TK Carter
- Jaheem Chance
- Toby Heine
- Faith Puckett
- Student of the month vote
- Motioned by Tami DeGarmo
- Seconded by Gary Hilt
- Approved
- Presentation and Introduction of Adam Silha Scholarship
- Samantha Pingel
- Charity of kindness through events to honor Adam Silha
- Started a high school scholarship fund in his honor
- Two $1000 and one $500 scholarships for RRCS students to any school awarded after first semester with second semester schedule in place
- Board vote to accept responsibility for selection of Adam Silha Scholarship
- Motioned by Cheri Stockheimer
- Seconded by Gary Hilt
- Approved
- Nomination of Vice President
- Gary Hilt nominated and accepted the nomination
- Vote to appoint Vice President
- Motioned by Tammy DeGarmo
- Seconded by Cheri Stockheimer
- Approved
- Assignment of board members to committees:
- Grant Writing - wait until March meeting
- Fundraising - wait until March meeting
- Scholarships - wait until March meeting
- Scholarship Decisions
- Adam Silha application pool to select the BTC winner?
- Yes
- Selection process:
- Need face to face? no
- Scholarship application due date
- Due April 1, 2023
- Scholarship selection date
- Full board this year at April board meeting, but committee next year
- RRCS 25th Anniversary
- May 4, 2023
- Open house will be working on getting staff here and the logistics
- Have a planning meeting and invite the board
- Graduation Speaker Ideas
- Randy Hughes - has confirmed to be our speaker for graduation
- Amazon Wish List
- Created a wish list for RRCS for winter coats, hats and gloves in various sizes
- 33 items have been purchased, mainly coats
- You can go to Amazon registries under gift list and type “Rock River Charter School”
- Letters are sent out to donors thanking them for their donation
- RRCS 2022-23 Budget
- No changes
- RRCS Statistics
- 61 graduates with at least 7 tomorrow
- 58 special ed students
- 14 removals
- 95.65% success rate
- 35 parenting students
- 77.39% free and reduced lunch rate
- Announcements
- Dr. Peterson gave a tour to two district board members the other day. They will be coming back next Wednesday to see the school and a bell ringing
- Deb won’t be here in March
- Confirm March 2023 Board hybrid meeting
- March 14, 2023
- Time 3:15 p.m.
- Adjournment at 4:02 p.m.
January 10, 2023
- Attendance
- Attending: Deb Straw, Lisa Conry,Gary Hilt, Dave Schollmeir, Tammy DeGarmo, Cheri Stockheiner, Bonnie Stalker, Angela Burdette, Lisa Peterson
- Missing: Tony Landowskil, Shannon Moloney, Laurie Jones
- Acceptance of December 13, 2022 minutes
- Motioned by Lisa Conry motioned
- Seconded by Gary Hilt
- Approved
- Introduction of November Students of the Month
- Dominic Rose -- RAMP student who qualified for GED (starting Jan 23)
- Parker to RAMP was the best option for me
- Dominic likes to learn in a relaxed environment.
- Future Plans -- blacksmithing.
- Gabrielle Mason
- Has already graduated.
- January Student of the Month nominations
- Students
- Cameron Castrogiovanni (E-Learning)
- Skylee Kniipfel (GED)
- Student of the month vote
- Motioned by Tammy DeGarmo
- Seconded by Lisa Conry
- Approved
- Bylaw Revisions
- All editing suggestions have been made.
- Vote to approve Bylaws
- Motioned by Dave Schollmeir
- Seconded by Gary Hilt
- Approved Unanimous
- Next meeting
- Vote for a VP
- Form Committees
- Fundraising - Sponsorship Letter feedback
- Edit suggested
- Motioned by Gary Hilt
- Seconded by Lisa Conry
- Approved Unanimous
- RRCS 25th Anniversary
- May 4, 2023
- Shannon Moloney has offered to provide something (cupcakes?)
- Committee to be set up in February
- Money to be spent on
- Beverages
- Cake / cupcakes
- Hot dogs / buns
- Chips
- Amount --
- 300
- Door Prizes
- T Shirts
- Decorations
- Invite --
- Forward Janesville
- Facebook page
- Program
- Greet at door
- Infographics for each room / program
- Tours
- Donation Board
- Student Story Board
- Graduation Speaker ideas:
- Randy Hughes, local farmer, co-owner of blue farm chips, involved in government ag efforts
- RRCS 2022/2023 Budget
- No questions asked
- Current RRCS Statistics
- Discussion held
- Announcements
- Feb 6, 2003, 4 - 8 pm, Court Street Scoopie Night
- Confirm February 2023 Board Meeting
- Date: February 14, 2023
- Time: 3:15 p.m.
- Approved
- Adjournment at 4:18 pm
December 13, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending: Tony Landowski, Lisa Conry, Deb Straw, Bonnie Stalker, Gary Hilt, Dave Schollmeier, Shannon Moloney, Cheri Stockheimer, Tammy DeGarmo, Angela Burdette, Lisa Peterson and Laurie Jones
- Missing: Nobody
- Acceptance of November 8, 2022 minutes
- Motioned by:Bonnie Stalker
- Seconded by: Gary Hilt
- Approved
- Introduction of November Students of the Month
- Gwen Charlet - graduated
- Jessie Crider - sick
- Marshawn Jones - present
- Ashley Traxler - not present
- November student of the month nomination
- Dominic Rose - RAMP
- Gabrielle Mason - E-Learning
- Student of the month vote
- Motioned by: Tammy DeGarmo
- Seconded by: Gary Hilt
- Approved
- Winter Break Bags
- Packing on Thursday, December 15th at 11:45 at RRCS in the Kimball Center - about an hour long to do and more the merrier for help packing
- 2 bags per student
- Bylaw Revisions
- Dr. Peterson would like to strike Article VIII: Indemnification
- Dave Schollmeier suggested editing Article III: Membership - edit from maximum of 15 members to maximum of 11 members
- Dr. Peterson suggested to change Article III to have August 01, instead of September 01 for section 3.06 “Term”
- Mentioned to add removal of board member who have missed three meeting
- Language fixed for section 3.10
- Vote on to approve bylaws at the next board meeting
- Fundraising
- Sponsorship letter feedback
- We weren’t told no to seek sponsorship, but we’re not supported on it. We should be more specific on what we want if we do ask for it
- Concern on having the city pay for the “party”
- We might be on the referendum in 2024, so they want us to be cautious of what we ask for
- We should target who we ask to support us and be specific on what we want
- Working on ideas to raise money for the 25th anniversary specifically. Target certain businesses for support on just this event
- RRCS 25th Anniversary
- May 4, 2023
- Define what our needs are, what the cost would be, how are we going to promote it, who’s coming and finalize some plans so we can target fundraising for this event only at the January meeting
- RRCS Budget
- Had a nice Culver’s Scoopie night over $750 was raised
- Budget questions were asked and answered
- Current RRCS Statistics
- 31 graduates
- Increased our number of InSpire students by 9 over the past month
- We have a $5,000 grant from the Women’s Fund to help with InSpire expenses
- 230 enrolled student, removals has been 1
- Announcements
- Be thinking about who we want to ask to be our graduation speaker this year
- Diego, Shannon’s son, passed his GED tests and will be ringing the bell on Monday
- Confirm January 2023 Board Meeting
- Date: January 10, 2023
- Time: 3:15 p.m.
- Adjournment at 4:17 p.m.
November 8, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending: Dave Schollmeier, Deb Straw, Gary Hilt, Tony Landowski, Angela Burdette, Tammy DeGarmo and Cheri Stockheimer, Lisa Conry
- Missing: Lisa Peterson, Bonnie Stalker and Shannon Moloney
- Acceptance of October 1, 2022 minutes
- Motioned by: Gary Hilt
- Seconded by: Deb Straw
- Approved
- Introduction of Lisa Conry - Potential board member
- Lisa Conry is from Janesville, went to Craig HS and then went to UW Madison. Joined the Navy and is an AT. She’s back in Janesville now and loves what we’re doing here at RRCS and wants to be a part of it.
- Vote to approve Lisa Conry as RRCS board member
- Motioned by: Tony Landowski
- Approved
- Introduction of September Students of the Month
- Andre Dozier - not able to come today, he’s working 12-4
- TreQuan Davis - might attend
- October student of the month nominations
- Jessie Crider
- Gwen Charlet
- Ashley Traxler
- Marshaun Jones
- Student of the month vote
- Motioned by: Deb Straw
- Seconded by: Gary Hilt
- Approved
- Bylaw Revisions
- Angela Burdette stated the corrections to the bylaws Dr. Peterson is suggesting
- Board members should look over the corrections Dr. Peterson suggested, see if anything else should be corrected and be ready to discuss next board meeting
- Vote on Vice President next board meeting
- List of all corrections will be in the next board meeting minutes
- Look at staff code of conduct next meeting to see if the board wants to adopt a code of conduct
- Share school charter with board members
- Fundraising - Sponsorship letter feedback
- Dr. Peterson talked to the new Superintendent about our sponsorship letter
- We weren’t told no, but he would prefer an open house versus having any community dollars going to a party
- He’s not excited about us reaching out to community members. He emphasized that we’re heading to a referendum, now might not be a good time to ask for money and spend it on a “party”
- Letter was reformatted to be just a fundraising letter, verses for the 25th anniversary
- Our name should be out there for the referendum. We call it an open house and not a block party and in the school
- Committee Set-Up
- Grant Writing
- Fundraising
- Donations
- Events
- Food Pantry
- Scholarship
- RRCS 25th Anniversary
- May 4, 2023
- Open House Instead
- Culver’s Scoopie Night Reminder
- November 21, 2022 West Court Street Culver’s 4pm -8pm
- Pantry Update
- Holiday Break Bags
- Bag inventory
- Sign up for items on the list
- Deadline of donations - December 13th - On next Board Meeting
- December 15, 2022 - Kiwanis packing
- RRCS Budget
- Current Statistics
- 117 Students on Waitlist
- Why did the percent of success go down if only one additional student was removed and the number of students who graduated increased?
- Announcements
- Decision was made to have a December Board Meeting
- Confirm December 2023 Board meeting
- Hybrid
- Look at link and find out why it is not working for some
- Date: December 13, 2023
- Time: 3:15
- Adjournment at 4:30
- Motioned - Deb Straw
- 2nd - Lisa Conry
October 11, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending: Deb Straw, Gary Hilt, Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Laurie Jones, Dave Schollmeier, Bonnie Stalker, Cheri Stockheimer and Tony Landowski
- Missing: Shannon Moloney and Tammy DeGarmo
- Acceptance of May 10, 2022 minutes
- Motioned by: Deb Straw
- Seconded by: Cheri Stockheimier
- Approved
- Acceptance of September 13, 2022 minutes
- Motioned by: Deb Straw
- Seconded by: Cheri Stockheimier
- Approved
- Student of the Month
- Nominations:
- Trequan Davis E-Learning
- Andre Dozier Alt Ed
- Approved
- Motioned by: Dave Schollmeier
- Seconded by: Bonnie Stalker
- Clarification on the rules for fundraising for gift cards for Student of the Month
- Matt Sylvester Knutson - said that the board can buy gift cards if we want to with board money, not district money. Board can open their own checking account that has no fees
- Fundraising
- Angie created a sponsorship draft letter for fundraising purposes
- New staff member introductions
- Jeff Weigel
- RRCS 25th Anniversary
- Cost of having River Street “Festival Street” blocked is $125 application fee for an event of 100-500 attendees, price goes up on how many people
- $200 to have the bollards pulled up to close off the street
- Kathleen Kleisner is going to talk to Chief Moore to see if he could waive those fees for us
- Can rent trash bins, recycling bins/bags, rent PA system
- What events will we have?
- JPD will come and grill for us, we just provide the food
- Noon - 3pm range or 3pm - 6pm
- Giving tours
- DJ service
- Thinking in May during the week
- RRCS Pantry
- Send an email to Tammy DeGarmo about our pantry to see if she can help stock it because it’s sparse
- Angie will send out a list to the board of items needed
- Contact local grocery stores for support
- Bonnie will reach out to Kwik Trip about a donation
- Have a fundraising committee
- If you’d like, bring an item to donate to the pantry at every board meeting
- Culver’s Scoopie Night - All on Court Street
- Nov 21, 2022
- Feb 06, 2023
- Apr 17, 2023
- Holiday Break Bags
- We’re ordering bags for this (50 bags are made)
- We have some money to buy items
- Project 16:49 donates items
- Staff and board members donate items
- RRCS 2022-23 Budget
- The district is revamping some sheets for budgets, we’re starting to use what they have
- Dr. Peterson went over the budget - spent to date won’t go on the report until it hits the book at the district
- Title I account shows a lot, but it has staff salaries in it.
- Current RRCS Statistics
- 4 graduates so far this year
- 245 current students
- 5 removals
- 98% success rate
- Announcements
- RRCS Governing Board bylaws
- Lisa sent the very old 2007 by laws
- Update with amendments at the Nov 2022 meeting
- Confirm November 2022 Board Meeting
- In Person or Virtually? - Both
- Date: November 08, 2022
- Time: 3:15 p.m.
- Adjournment at 4:22 p.m.
September 13, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Deb Straw, Laurie Jones, Gary Hilt, Tony Landowski, and Shannon Moloney
- Missing: Cheri Stockheimer, David Schollmeier, Bonnie Stalker and Tammy DeGarmo.
- Acceptance of May 10, 2022 minutes
- Vote during October meeting
- Approval of new board president, Tony Landowski
- Vote will be voted on via email
- Quorum met on 9/28/22 for new board president Tony Landowski
- Introduction of new board member candidates
- Gary Hilt and Shannon Moloney
- Approval of new board members
- Will be voted on via email
- Quorum met on 9/28/22 for new board members
- Student of the month nominations
- Will begin in October
- Discussion - keep the same or adjust how student of the month is done? We have 16 Kwik Trip cards.
- Clarification will be sought on the rules for fundraising for gift cards for student of the month
- Women’s Fund
- Info
- Grant closes on 9/15/22 and it helps women and children. We are asking for things that will help our parenting students with items needed.
- Vote - will email vote
- Staffing Update
- We are fully staffed right now. We added a new teacher to our senior level. We added a special education paraprofessional and currently have a full staff.
- John Schwank is the innovation specialist for the charter schools. We have him for 2 years on ESSER money.
- RRCS 25th Anniversary
- Do something for the 25th anniversary on Festival Street?
- How would we finance this?
- See if vendors will donate items?
- Fundraising Ideas
- Culver’s Scoopie Nights
- Other ideas: Mac’s Pizza Shack, Chipotle, etc..
- Set up a committee for fundraising (grants, donations, events, raffles and sponsorships - all ideas)
- Holiday break bags
- Will be here before you know it. In the past, staff and board members donated money or items along with school money. Project 16:49 donates to the break bags
- We have $800 left from a donation/grant
- Cold call/visit places for donations
- RRCS 2022-2023 budget
- Lisa went through the budget
- Current RRCS Statistics
- Current enrollment is 245 students, but we won’t be able to count about 5
- Announcements
- None
- Confirm October 11, 2022 board meeting
- In person or virtually
- In person at 3:30 p.m.
- Adjournment at 4:42
2021-2022
March 8, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending - Lisa Peterson, Laurie Jones, Barry Badertscher, Deborah Straw, Mackenzie Knight, Tony Landowski, Tammy DeGarmo, Gregg Dickinson, and Bonnie Stalker
- Missing - Angela Burdette, David Schollmeier and Cheri Stockheimer
- Called to order at 2:04 p.m.
- Acceptance of February 08, 2022 minutes
- Motion made by Deborah Straw
- Seconded by Tammy DeGarmo
- Approved
- Recognition of February Student of the Month
- Jacob Casique - Graduated
- Leshori Turner - recognize at April board meeting due to ACT testing
- Student of the Month Nominations
- Dylan Paluch
- Mattie Frerichs
- Motioned by Tammy Degarmo
- Seconded by all
- Approved
- Introduction of New Staff Member
- Introduce Mackenzie Knight
- Hal Robb BTC Memorial Scholarship
- Update - Applicants are being scanned and meeting next week to look at them
- Lisa will send an email when it’s confirmed with the students on when to meet
- Vote to move April 12th meeting to April 19th due to ACT testing make-up day
- Motioned by Barry Badertscher
- Seconded by all
- Approved
- Graduation
- Update on date, place and time
- JPAC is where everyone would like to have it unless something happens with the pandemic
- Roles/responsibility sign-up
- Have the sign-up next month
- Will bypass the cake this year due to the pandemic
- Student speaker will be singing not speaking
- RRCS Contract
- Signed and approved, but some things weren’t dated. Sent back with notes to date it and is being corrected. We are ahead of the game
- Charter Student Videos
- Senior students who owe make-up time will be putting together videos on why they came here, what helped them and what is their plan after graduation
- RRCS Budget
- Nothing to be concerned with or new
- Current RRCS Statistics
- Angie is still ACT testing, but our success rate is still strong at 94% and we have 61 graduates thus far this year
- McKinney Vento numbers are hard to nail down, students don’t always share their situation with us and there’s a process to it. Currently at 18 students
- Announcements
- Barry met with some district employees and the superintendent about RRCS and our space issue
- Project 16:49 can bag food for spring break or they can bring it to us in bulk and students can just grab and go. They will bring us food for spring break
- Diamper drive? Is this still going to happen? Dr. Peterson will check on this and add it to the April agenda
- Have one in person board meeting next school year?
- Confirm April 2022 virtual board meeting
- April 19, 2022
- Adjournment at 2:26 p.m.
March 15, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending - Lisa Peterson, Barry Badertscher, Deborah Straw, Tony Landowski, Tammy DeGarmo, Gregg Dickinson
- Held Meet & Greet with Daryen Kinney (Jacob Larson with grandfather at hospital)
- Hal Robb $1,000 Selection Approval of Daryen & Jacob
- Motioned by Barry
- Seconded by Gregg
- Approved unanimously
- Selection Committee approved having Jordan Shower (former grad) apply for consideration of the third scholarship
- BTC $500 Selection Approval of Daryen
- Motioned by Barry
- Seconded by Tammy
- Approved unanimously
- Language changes to scholarship application requested
April 19, 2022
- April 19, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending - Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Dave Schollmeier, Bonnie Stalker, Cheri Stockheimer, Deb Straw, Gregg Dickson, Tony Landowski
- Call to Order at 2:01
- Approval of March 2022 Board Minutes -- Bonnie motioned, Gregg seconded, approved unanimously
- Students of the Month
- Recognition of Feb Student
- Dylan Paluch -- reminded this morning, but shy. Attended virtually.
- April Nominations
- Geovanni Bueno-Hernandez -- approved unanimously
- Lashori Turner -- approved unanimously
- Savannah Kalas -- approved unanimously
- Nominate in May and recognize in September
- Introduction of new RRCS Staff Member -- Jon Churchwell -- to be scheduled for the May meeting
- Hal Robb BTC Memorial Scholarship
- 2022 Awards
- Darren Kinney
- Also the $500 BTC School Scholarship
- Jacob Larson
- Jordan Showers
- Move to administration by the BTC Foundation
- This moves handling the application / selection process to them as well
- Since the money is not ours to give, tabled for further discussion
- Lisa Hurda from BTC Foundation will be invited to the May or September board meeting
- Graduation
- JPAC
- No food
- Jobs for the May 10 meeting
- RRCS Budget
- RRCS School Statistics
- May 10 -- Virtual Meeting
- Announcements
- Adjournment -- Deb motioned, Bonnie seconded -- approved unanimously
May 10, 2022
- May 10, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending: Dr. Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Cheri Stockheimer, Deborah Straw, Barry Badertscher, Tony Landowski, Lisa Hurda, Gregg Dickinson
- Missing: Tammy DeGarmo, David Schollmeier and Bonnie Stalker
- Acceptance of April 19, 2022 minutes
- Motion made by Barry Badertscher
- Seconded by Cheri Stockheimer
- Hal Rob BTC Memorial Scholarship
- Introduction of Lisa Hurda
- Explained how students are selected, explained what an endowed scholarship is and explained the BTC process
- Hal Robb BTC Memorial Scholarship
- Discussion of moving scholarship funding/oversight to BTC Scholarship Foundation
- No vote needed to move Hal Rob BTC Memorial Scholarship to the BTC Scholarship Foundation
- Recognition of April Students of the month
- Geovany Bueno Hernandez - attended
- Lashori Turner - attended
- Savannah Kalas - attended
- No new students for the month of May/June - will begin again in the fall
- Introduction of new staff member Jon Chburchwell
- New Hire for Fall 2022/2023 School Year
- Schedule
- AM E-Learning and PM GED02
- Location in the building
- Middle lab on the second floor, wall dividers will be used and desks will be added
- Graduation
- Sign-up for roles and responsibilities
- Budget Information
- We’ve done a good job on spending out the money
- Recording studio is a project that’s happening over the summer
- Statistics
- We have almost double the graduates compared to last year
- Announcements - none
- Confirm September 13th Board Meeting
- Virtual or in person?
- In person depending on Covid stats in September
- Meeting time moved to 3:30
- Adjournment at 3:05 p.m.
September 13, 2022
- Attendance
- Attending: Lisa Peterson, Angela Burdette, Deb Straw, Laurie Jones, Gary Hilt, Tony Landowski, and Shannon Moloney
- Missing: Cheri Stockheimer, David Schollmeier, Bonnie Stalker and Tammy DeGarmo.
- Acceptance of May 10, 2022 minutes
- Vote during October meeting
- Approval of new board president, Tony Landowski
- Vote will be voted on via email
- Quorum met on 9/28/22 for new board president Tony Landowski
- Introduction of new board member candidates
- Gary Hilt and Shannon Moloney
- Approval of new board members
- Will be voted on via email
- Quorum met on 9/28/22 for new board members
- Student of the month nominations
- Will begin in October
- Discussion - keep the same or adjust how student of the month is done? We have 16 Kwik Trip cards.
- Clarification will be sought on the rules for fundraising for gift cards for student of the month
- Women’s Fund
- Info
- Grant closes on 9/15/22 and it helps women and children. We are asking for things that will help our parenting students with items needed.
- Vote - will email vote
- Staffing Update
- We are fully staffed right now. We added a new teacher to our senior level. We added a special education paraprofessional and currently have a full staff.
- John Schwank is the innovation specialist for the charter schools. We have him for 2 years on ESSER money.
- RRCS 25th Anniversary
- Do something for the 25th anniversary on Festival Street?
- How would we finance this?
- See if vendors will donate items?
- Fundraising Ideas
- Culver’s Scoopie Nights
- Other ideas: Mac’s Pizza Shack, Chipotle, etc..
- Set up a committee for fundraising (grants, donations, events, raffles and sponsorships - all ideas)
- Holiday break bags
- Will be here before you know it. In the past, staff and board members donated money or items along with school money. Project 16:49 donates to the break bags
- We have $800 left from a donation/grant
- Cold call/visit places for donations
- RRCS 2022-2023 budget
- Lisa went through the budget
- Current RRCS Statistics
- Current enrollment is 245 students, but we won’t be able to count about 5
- Announcements
- None
- Confirm October 11, 2022 board meeting
- In person or virtually
- In person at 3:30 p.m.
- Adjournment at 4:42