Organizational Chart FLACS I, II, III First Year - Newyorkcharters.org

Second, for the first time we would introduce to the community school districts the conceptof Community Grown Charter Schools, which can begin to help community leaders shifttheir suspicion of charter schools as outsiders and not connected to the community. To thiseffort of securing public space we met with Bert Wyman and a team from the office ofCharter Policy and Planning at the Department of Education. We discussed district 7 as ourpreference but also our willingness to work in any area that has a large concentration of ELLstudents. They shared that the southern part of District 10 has many immigrant families andthat that would be a possible place to also consider.We also met with Yolanda Torres, superintendent of District 7, to discuss our interest incontinuing our work in District 7. She was amenable and welcomed further conversations.She will be setting up a May meeting the Community School Council president. Should weacquire space in a public school building we will assess our co-location experience yearly todetermine if we will remain only the first charter period, but then seek to relocate in a privatespace. Based on our discussions, we expressed that if the partnership is not what wasexpected then relocation would take place sooner rather than later.Contingency Plans if Co-Location is not approvedIn discussing facilities we have also already had several meeting with Stan Conway, fromConway Towne, the real estate consultant who was instrumental in the purchase of ourbuilding for FLACS II and who worked with the Lavelle Charter school in finding theirprivate space. Reverend Rivera is also researching possible ways of leveraging the two realestate properties to purchase a new building, if we do not co-locate. In addition, ReverendRivera has reached out to Rev. Paul Sauer, secretary of Missouri Synod of LutheranChurches who is in charge of leasing Lutheran Church school buildings that have been closedin the Bronx County. Several other meetings will be taking place in the next few monthswith Rev. Sauer.Through CG Educational Holding Corp., a joint venture equally owned by LPAC andFLACS, fifty percent of any positive cash flow will go directly to the FLACS Schools. Thispercentage will be used for any necessary facility needs.**Please see the following BUDGETS**Response 16 - 3