Brownsville Collegiate Charter School

“The school utilizes uncommon schools, inc., an unrelated 501(c)(3) organization, to provide management and other administrative support services to the school. The school delegates hiring of certain employees, planning and executing budgets, and other financial operations to uncommon schools, inc. Julie kennedy is on the school board of trustees and the managing director of uncommon schools inc. Uncommon schools, inc. Does not compensate julie kennedy to be on the board of the school and her involvement with the board is on a volunteer basis.”

“In december 2014, the charter school's board of trustees approved the merger of the charter school and leadership preparatory bedford stuyvesant charter school, as the successor charter school under the name uncommon new york city charter schools, in conjunction with excellence charter schools, brooklyn east collegiate charter school, brownsville collegiate charter school, kings collegiate charter school, leadership preparatory brownsville, leadership preparatory canarsie charter school, leadership preparatory ocean hill charter school and ocean hill collegiate charter school. The merger was approved on march 6, 2015 by the suny board of trustees and on june 30, 2015 by the board of regents. The merger is effective july 1, 2015. In conjunction with the merger, the charter school was dissolved and a new agreement is being negotiated with usi to provide management and other administrative services to uncommon new york city charter schools.”

“The form 990 is reviewed by the finance director, director of operations and ceo in detail. It is then reviewed by the board of directors, approved and filed.”

“All new members are required to sign the conflict of interest policy. Board members are bound by fiduciary duty to disclose any conflicts. Annually a resolution is adopted reaffirming a commitment to the policy.”

“Through the annual budget process, all compensation for key employees is approved by the school board of trustees.”

“Governing documents and conflicts of interest policy are available upon request. Financial statements are available on www.guidestar.org.”

“The process is consistent with prior years.”

“Uncommon collegiate charter high school employees are reported on bedford stuyvesant collegiate charter school's form w-3. Brownsville collegiate charter school and bedford stuyvesant collegiate charter school share the uncommon collegiate high charter school and expenses are allocated based on the number of students. Bedford stuyvesant collegiate charter school is the funding agent and items are paid by bedford stuyvesant and expenses are then allocated and reimbursed to bedford from brownsville.”