Meeting #1

Date: 2/20/17
Start: 20:03:00
Ended: 21:00:00
All members present

-Decided on creating a budget.

-Decided idea for school was to keep it involved with CTE; specifically
wind turbines.
-Kristine has volunteered to get interviews from her school.
-CTE: wind turbines for high school level.
-Kristine will work on PTO (dept meetings)
-Mike will interview Glennda about interest in school.
-Isaac will do research on being a conduit to bringing kids into school.

-Decided our school will have between 20-25 students.

-The board (Kristine, Isaac, Mike, and Tiffani) has decided we need to
come up with a mission statement and philosophy of education for our
school.
-The board has decided to come up with some type of curriculum for
our students.

-In the topic of Staff/Board/Organization we have come to a rough

decision on what and how many teachers we need:
(1) English, (1) History, (1) PE, (1) Foreign Language, (1) Fine
Arts, (2) theoretically 2 Science teachers, (1) Math.

-Isaac has decided he will work on curriculum.

-Tiffani and Mike will discuss the mission statement and the philosophy
of education.

Meeting #2
Date: 2/21/17
Start: 11:45:00
End: 13:02:00
All members present

In this meeting, the budget was discussed and these are some of the
people we have to pay and make sure we have hired:
-Lunch lady: (probably) 2 people: $30,000 salary.
-Security: 1 person: $30,000
-Office admin: (probably) 3 people: $40,000 each.
-Teachers: (at least) 10: $50,000 (DOE)
-Counselors: 1 person: $50,000
 -Principle: 1 person: $100,000
-Custodian: 1 person: $32,000

Things to discuss in budget plan:

-What does the school have to budget in for insurance and who
do we offer it to?
-Do we have to pay into/match 401Ks (etc)
-How about retirements?
-Do we have subs or do we have to budget into having them?

Roughly we will receive $725/per student/per day= $130,500 a

student/per year.

We will roughly get $130,500x 25 students= $3,262,500/year

(assuming every student has perfect attendance)

Things to account for in budget:

-$500,000 in teacher fees, starting out.
-$360,000 in staff wages.
-$15,000 (x12 mo) in rent for building
-$18,000 yr to feed 20 people for the year.
-$15,000 for contingency fees.

Things to decide on spending money:

-Do we need a car and how much money to spend, and how much gas
is needed/per month/per year.

Meeting #3
Date: 3/8/17
Start: 6:45:00
End: 8:02:00
All members present

In this meeting, we finalized our project and discussed the

presentation. We will be going in order with Mike starting out to
address the board. From there, Tiffani will introduce our website and
present our mission statement and philosophy of education. Isaac will
take over and discuss the curriculum. Kristine will go next and present
the students, our team, location, and documentation. Mike will end
with the business plan/budget.

Roles:
Collaborated effort- mission statement, philosophy of education,
students, team
Isaac- curriculum
Mike- budget/business plan
Tiffani- budget/business plan, documentation
Kristine- website/brochure

We also all made sure to review others work to ensure that we all
could participate in all aspects of the project.

We conducted several informal meetings via text message and

email. These were not listed.

Schools/School-related activities attended and observed:

Desert Mirage High School- biology class
o Kristine teaches at Desert Mirage and observed her
students. She also observed a Kid Wind competition on
February 21, 2017. This competition was held by the Green
Academy that informs students of various green
technologies. The students were engaged when displaying
their final projects and describing them. This provided us
with information on what kind of projects we can use at our
school as well as find potential candidates.
Cahuilla Desert Academy- physical science class
o Isaac teaches at Cahuilla Desert Academy and was able to
meet with various members of the campus to discuss
curriculum. He also observed other teachers to learn
techniques and strategies to take back to our school.
Useful Websites:

http://www.collegeofthedesert.edu/community/ewd/Pages/deec.aspx

http://www.seia.org/about/solar-energy

http://www.mytexaspublicschool.org/The-School-System/Funding.aspx

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jun/27/chronically-absent-students-
cost-county-schools-mi/

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/06/21/155515613/how-much-
does-the-government-spend-to-send-a-kid-to-school

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-
spending-per-pupil-data.html

http://windeis.anl.gov/guide/basics/

http://windenergyfoundation.org/what-is-wind-energy/

http://www.awea.org/wind-energy-101

http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/

http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/