CHARTER SCHOOL REVIEW COMMITTEE

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes CHARTER SCHOOL REVIEW COMMITTEE KEVIN INGRAM, CHAIR Joyce Mallory, Vice-Chair Ruben Burgos, Melinda Scott Krei, Monique Liston, Desiree Pointer-Mace, and Glenn Steinbrecher Staff Assistant: Linda Elmer, (414) 286-2231 Fax: 286-3456, lelmer@milwaukee.gov Gayle Peay, 288-1540 Thursday, January 19, 2017 5:30 PM City Hall, Room 301-B 1. Roll call. Meeting convened: 5:50 P.M. Members presnt: Joyce Mallory, Kevin Ingram, Melinda Scott Krei and Ruben Burgos Members excused: Glenn Steinbrecher, Desiree Pointer-Mace and Monique Liston 2. Review and Approval of the minutes of the December 15, 2016 meeting. Ms. Mallory moved, seconded by Mr. Burgos, for approval of the minutes. There were no objections 3. 160702 Communication relating to administrative matters of the Charter School Review Committee. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Ms. Peay said the ordinance will take effect in about 9 days and city staff will be meeting on January 30th to figure out the logistics for lead testing. Ms. Peay assumes the Committee would like to have the testing done prior to September 2017. Any questions or concerns can be referred to Ms. Peay and she will pass those along to the city. Ms. Mallory thinks the intent is that it will be for the upcoming school year and all of the school contracts need to be amended. Water Works Sup. Lewis said that none of the schools' laterals are lead. Ms. Peay says language has already been added in the language for new school applications and school leaders are already aware that this will be coming and were present at the Steering and Rules Committee where this was adopted. Ms. Peay will also ask how many schools have outside food vendors for school lunchs. The testing inside all of the schools will be free to the schools, although any costs to correct the issue would need to be paid by the school. Milwaukee Public Schools has already done its schools. Ms. Peay will also check to see what the UW-M chartered schools are doing. Draft changes will be submitted for review to the Committee for addition to the annual requirements. Ms. Mallory said the aldermen had a lot of questions at Steering and Rules (SR). Ms. Mallory provided a copy of questions raised at the SR meeting (attached to file 160702) Ms. Mallory thought it would be a good idea to include this information in next year's annual report. Ms. Mallory thought it was important to show the per-pupil City of Milwaukee Page 1 CHARTER SCHOOL REVIEW Meeting Minutes January 19, 2017 COMMITTEE cost because aldermen were concerned about funds being taken away from Milwaukee Public Schools. Ms. Peay added #7 because that was brought up by Ms. Scott Krei a few meetings ago. Ms. Scott Krei said that not all professional development programs are equal and wanted to query specifically about the quality of the programming. Ms. Scott Krei thought these items could be added to the summary section. Ms. Mallory moved, seconded by Ms. Scott Krei, to incorporate the lead testing requirement and the seven recommendations provided at the meeting as part of the annual reports. There were no objections. Meeting adjourned: 6:11 P.M. Linda M. Elmer Staff Assistant This meeting can be viewed in its entirety through the City's Legislative Research Center at http://milwaukee.legistar.com/calendar. City of Milwaukee Page 2