2015-11-11T09:38:45-07:00 2015-06-30 WARLICK ACCOUNTING SERVICES 1516 DAVIS OAKS WAY DECATUR GA 30033 990 2014-07-01 460560091 TAPESTRY SCHOOL INC TAPE 4702686403 3130 RAYMOND DRIVE ATLANTA GA 30340 TONNA HARRIS-BOSSELMANN CHAIRMAN 4702686403 2015-11-02 1 DAVID WARLICK P00675341 4043254300 2015-11-01 X 2014 2016-02-25 16:41:14Z X TAPESTRY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL TONNA HARRIS-BOSSELMANN 3130 RAYMOND DRIVE ATLANTA GA 30340 1689232 0 X TAPESTRYCHARTER.ORG X 2012 GA Offer an inclusive, individualized learning environment that is academically engaging, both for neurotypical students and those on the autism spectrum, and create a positive school culture that empowers all students to become creative builders of their own future. 13 13 36 125 0 0 162007 619993 0 1061211 56 154 0 2658 162063 1684016 0 0 0 116612 9635 1040143 0 0 48514 121314 488143 130949 1644898 31114 39118 140914 4340237 95926 3705422 44988 634815 The mission of Tapestry Public Charter School is to offer an inclusive, individualized learning environment that is academically engaging, both for neurotypical students and those on the autism spectrum, and to create a positive school culture that empowers all students to take possession of their innate talents and become creative builders of their own future. 0 0 993569 0 993569 SCHOOL INSTRUCTION: Tapestry Public Charter School is founded on a constructivist approach to pedagogy, which posits that learning happens as students actively engage in a process of meaning and knowledge construction, rather than passively receiving information. Our constructivist approach is research based and fosters critical thinking by our motivated and independent students. We are an unusual constructivist school because many of our students are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Students with ASD and related challenges may be unable to process information received through their senses. Critical to our students' success is a modified school environment that accommodates sensory sensitivities (lighting, sound proofing, reduction of other stimuli). Our program expenses for Instruction (Function 100) included staff salaries ($573,570), staff benefits ($115,088), purchased professional services ($53,914), supplies & energy ($133,770), and classroom facilities ($136,631). Our expenses on Instruction were 95% of our Quality Basic Education allotment and 67% of our combined Georgia QBE and Federal Implementation Grant. 172166 20000 152166 FACILITIES & ENTERPRISES: Tapestry Public Charter School began the school year in a shared educational building leased from the Northeast Baptist Church, 4046 Chamblee-Tucker Rd., Atlanta, 30340. While this campus provided everything we needed this year, leasing was never intended as a permanent option for our students. During the year, our donors embraced the Inclusion mission of Tapestry so much that they provided us with ownership of a former county elementary school at 3130 Raymond Drive, Atlanta, 30340. We are thrilled with this new campus for FY16 and beyond. This facility provides for our future expansion as we grow one grade per year until the school has its first graduating seniors in 2019. At our facilities, we operate two enterprise-like functions: a lunch-time Student Nutrition Program that includes free and reduced-price lunches, and an After-School Program. Our program expenses for Maintenance & Operations (Function 260), Student Nutrition (Fn 310), and After School (Fn 320) included staff salaries ($49,679), staff benefits ($8,393), purchased property services ($75,029), other purchased services ($23,165), and supplies & energy ($10,650). Our expenses on these three functions were 16% of our Quality Basic Education allotment and 12% of our combined Georgia QBE and Federal Implementation Grant. 323189 0 323189 INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES: Tapestry Public Charter School has won a major grant that encourages us, in the grantor's words, "to solve a critically important and very challenging systemic problem." Our initial Principal (Dr. Amanda L. Chilvers) established the school procedures that make Tapestry a national leader in Inclusion for typical, autistic, and other IEP students. At the end of the school year, we hired a permanent Principal (Ms. Barbara Boone) who has the school experience to lead Tapestry towards sustained academic achievement as well as the managerial experience to produce an enviable school culture. Our program expenses for Pupil Services (Function 210), Improvement of Instructional Services (Fn 221), Media Services (Fn 222), General Administration (Fn 230), School Administration (Fn 240), Business Office (Fn 250), and Central Services (Fn 280) included salaries ($176,092), employee benefits ($13,401), purchased professional services ($18,150), and other purchased services ($18,480). Our expenses for these seven functions were 31% of our Quality Basic Education allotment and 22% of our combined Georgia QBE and Federal Implementation Grant. 0 0 0 1488924 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 36 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 13 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 GA X X Mr Thomas Carney CFP 4702686403 3130 RAYMOND DRIVE ATLANTA GA 30340 Ann Abramowitz PhD Board member 5 0 X 0 0 0 Suzanne Baker Grants Chair 5 0 X 0 0 0 Tonna Harris-Bosselmann Board Chair 20 0 X X 0 0 0 Thomas Carney CFP Chief Financial Officer 20 0 X X 0 0 0 Devon Orland Christopher JD Vice Chairman 20.00 0 X X 0 0 0 Ashley Deck Special Education Chair 5.00 0 X 0 0 0 John Graham CPA Board member 5 0 X 0 0 0 Amy Windom Hilton Secretary 15 0 X X 0 0 0 Richard Kaplan Board member 5.00 0 X X 0 0 0 Barbara Lawson-Lonon Board member 5.00 0 X X 0 0 0 Dana Maine JD Board member 5.00 0 X X 0 0 0 Greta Massetti PhD Policy Chair 5.00 0 X 0 0 0 David Warlick CPA Board member 5.00 0 X X 0 0 0 Amanda L Chilvers PhD School Principal 40.00 0 X X X 80000 0 0 80000 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8929 0 446953 164111 40469 619993 DEKALB (GA) COUNTY SCHOOL FUNDING 611110 1043779 1043779 0 0 STUDENT ACTIVITY FEES 611110 17432 17432 0 0 0 0 0 0 1061211 154 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2466 0 0 0 2466 0 2466 2466 0 0 0 0 5216 0 5216 0 0 0 192 192 0 0 192 1684016 1064023 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 116612 116612 0 0 0 0 866782 799340 39317 28125 106469 97870 4901 3698 34289 30944 2073 1272 32603 31146 799 658 9731 1780 7848 103 19873 9893 9980 8500 8500 68099 64125 1221 2753 230340 204157 22432 3751 13224 13224 113636 113386 250 4162 1228 2866 68 2352 2352 10299 629 6601 3069 Miscellaneous 2711 1734 922 55 Special events 5216 504 0 4712 1644898 1488924 107460 48514 3047 214991 34805 103062 710730 0 1232 0 0 0 0 0 3415636 2352 3413284 0 0 0 0 0 140914 4340237 0 254644 0 0 2000 0 0 0 0 3386768 95926 62010 95926 3705422 X 44988 112974 0 521841 0 0 44988 634815 140914 4340237 X 39118 0 0 0 28868 521841 X X 1 X 1 X 1 0 X 1500000 0 1500000 1886768 0 0 1886768 0 0 0 0 28868 0 2352 26516 0 0 0 0 3413284 1684016 0 0 0 0 0 1684016 0 0 0 1684016 1644898 0 0 0 0 0 1644898 0 0 0 1644898 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 Schedule E, Part I, Line 3 Tapestry Public Charter School includes non-discriminatory language in its student-recruitment lotteries. Schedule E, Part I, Line 6 Tapestry Public Charter School competes for local, state, and federal funding. As an authorized Georgia public charter school, TPCS received monthly FY15 allotments totaling $1,043,779 from the DeKalb County School District and the Georgia Department of Education. TCPS completed the final year of its two-year, $475,000, federal Implementation Grant. The Implementation Grant required TCPS to submit invoices for qualified reimbursable expenses. Such expenses were mainly for professional services (Object codes 3xx), equipment expendables (Object codes 6xx), and equipment purchases (Object codes 7xx). During FY15, TPCS qualified for $446,953 in federally reimbursable Implementation Grant expenses. All of the unpaid federally reimbursable Implementation Grant expenses were carried on our books as Account Receivables as of June 30, 2015, and these expenses were reimbursed by August 31, 2015, closing out our two-year Implementation Grant. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Amanda L Chilvers PhD School Principal 80000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10520 0 90520 0 0 0 X 1 521841 APPRAISAL 0 1 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Tapestry Public Charter School presented its Board with a watermarked TY2014 (FY15) Form 990 as part of a monthly read-ahead package. Board members had two weeks to comment on the watermarked Form 990. The Finance Committee provided each Board member with an Excel analysis showing how all entries on the audited financial statements flowed to the lines and boxes on the Form 990. The Board Chair approved the Board's revisions and the final version of the Form 990. TCPS submitted the approved Form 990 electronically to the IRS and on paper to the Georgia Department of Revenue. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Tapestry Public Charter School requires that each Board member sign and reaffirm a Conflict of Interest statement each year. In addition, all Board members attend governance training that is provided by the Georgia Charter Schools Association and required by the Georgia Department of Education. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Tapestry Public Charter School has only one highly paid executive, our Principal. During FY15, our founding Principal resigned. Consequently, the Board's standing Nominating Committee began a nation-wide search for a replacement. Early in the process, the Committee received extremely strong recommendations for one of the candidates: an experienced Principal about to retire from the California school system. The Committee selected this outstanding educator as its first choice among several highly qualified candidates. The Nominating and Finance Committees worked together on a pay package that would be fair to both TPCS and the first-choice Principal. These Committees evaluated California pay scales, California retirement pay, moving costs, various Georgia-school-pay scales, the Georgia Teacher Retirement System, benefits, bonuses, future raises, restricted grants from donors, and the timing of all the relevant revenues and expenses. The Board and Principal Barbara Boone reached a satisfactory agreement of her duties, goals, metrics, and compensation. The Nominating Committee retained its extensive analyses, committee minutes, communications with candidates including the successful candidate, and signed agreements. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Tapestry Public Charter School seeks to be a transparent organization. We have earned the Gold Seal on GuideStar, where we share our Form 990, audit report, and other governance information. During FY15, the Finance Committee collaborated on the OneDrive for Business cloud. The Board shares all of its grant data, policy manuals, checkbook registers, minutes, and governance documents on the Google+ cloud. While the general public does not access to our OneDrive or Google+, the Board does provide copies of any requested information. Our public website, tapestrycharter.org, provides access to our charter petition, state contract, student-enrollment application, and Board-member application. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 In April 2015, Tapestry Public Charter School purchased an existing school building for $3,207,000. We financed the building for up to $3,734,000 to accommodate any repair costs. The note holder made a conditional grant to the School, with the condition to expire in 2019. As of June 30, 2015, the current value of the School's temporarily restricted assets is $521,841. Form 990, Part XII, Line 1 Tapestry Public Charter School used the cash method during its planning years. In FY15, Tapestry PCS opened for its first year of operating as a school. Tapestry PCS now records its books with the accrual method in accordance with the requirements of the Georgia Department of Education.