April's Board Meeting

We had just enough Board members to conduct the meeting last night as work and activities kept a few away. However, that did not prevent some significant and positive action to be conducted and completed.

We opened the meeting in an extended time of prayer after reviewing the blessing of the National Day of Prayer coordinated by Laura Burch. It was a well attended event that did an excellent job of expressing our thankfulness to God and petitioning Him for His protection and guidance for our families, school, state and nation.

This is also the time of year when we consider Board nominations. Andy Hageman has taken a job opportunity in Nebraska and will be moving there this summer. That means he has resigned from the Board, so we are considering filling the role he served on the Facilities Committee as well as finding people with talent and experience in the areas of finance and human resources. We have 3 candidates that we will start the process with and ask them to consider serving with us on the Board. We plan to work through that process and have them on Board before the next school year starts.

We reviewed activities of the Facilities Committee which included progress on the monument sign at the North Campus (the foundation has been poured), upcoming review of options for security and communication systems for the North Campus, the planned installation of the bleachers in October, and various other maintenance items such as parking lot repair, shingles missing, mulch containment and other such fun things.

Finally we spent time reaching a consensus on the important matter of what is our point of differentiation (our market stance) in the marketplace recognizing that our target audience is Christian families. I am delighted to say that we quickly came to agreement on the matter and I have asked the Development Committee to create a statement that summarizes that agreement. We will use that market stance as the guiding and most prominent feature that should attract families to Maranatha. More to come on this topic soon.

Look forward to seeing you at one of the many school activities this month.