Board of Directors Updates
2025 Association Meeting Summary
We hosted a successful general meeting for the Contra Costa Christian Schools Association this past Wednesday night, and we are grateful for our association members who were in attendance. As laid out in our bylaws, the Association plays an important role in the future direction and focus for our school and is the governing body that provides overall oversight and support. Although we have sent out the minutes and presentation to Association Members, in an effort for full transparency for all parents and community members, the following are some highlights from the meeting:
Roles & Agenda:
We hosted a successful general meeting for the Contra Costa Christian Schools Association this past Wednesday night, and we are grateful for our association members who were in attendance. As laid out in our bylaws, the Association plays an important role in the future direction and focus for our school and is the governing body that provides overall oversight and support. Although we have sent out the minutes and presentation to Association Members, in an effort for full transparency for all parents and community members, the following are some highlights from the meeting:
Roles & Agenda:
- Eunice Greenland, Vice President - opened the evening in prayer
- Andrea Terwilliger, President - welcomed everyone, made some opening comments and introduced the board members:
- Herself - President
- Eunice Greenland - Vice President
- Joel Faber - Treasurer
- Alan Leal - Secretary
- Sherlice Theroux - Director
- Julius Siebenga, Head of School - introduced the Leadership Team:
- Lilian Im - MS/HS Principal
- Grant Padmos - MS/HS Academic Dean
- Daniel Araujo - Elementary Principal
- Juliana Basil - New Middle School / High School Principal starting 2025/2026 school year.
- Himself - Head of School
- Julius shared some school highlights for the year
- Facilities upgrades
- Teacher Retention - Julius shared a slide of how we are doing with teacher retention year over year; we are happy to report that teacher retention is quite high. He also shared the decision by the board to increase teacher salaries by an average of 14% for next year.
- Celebrated student learning by sharing multiple pictures of students in their learning this year.
- Enrollment is tracking to be steady next year and in line with this year’s enrollment numbers.
- Board Committee Updates - Committee Chairs
- Finance Committee, Joel Faber: Shared the financials for this year vs last year and explained the positive financial position we are in.
- Facilities Committee, Alan Leal: Shared that work was spent focusing on a capital plan this year
- Facilities Master Plan Ad Hoc, Julius: Shared the behind the scenes work that the committee is working on to propose a viable plan for future building to the board by school year end.
- Education Committee, Julius: Shared a review of the “where are we now” report that was brought to the board as well as “where are we going” report that will make its way to the board in June. A highlight of this work was the Late Start initiative happening next year.
- Development Committee, Julius: Shared some of the work the committee has been working on including a long term Development Plan and a Case for Giving.
- Nominating Committee, Eunice Greenland: Shared the procedures work the committee has worked on as well as the recruitment of board members
- Nominee Intros & Voting - Eunice Greenland
- Introduced the two nominees - Tom Weibert and Richard Lu who spoke briefly
- Andrea conducted the voting process
- Strategic Plan - Andrea highlighted a few key ones that were worked on this year.
- A new Info-graphic was shared with members, of the Strategic Plan
- A significant piece of everything was an update to the Mission Statement which now reads “Contra Costa Christian Schools is a distinctively Christian learning community committed to academic excellence, preparing the next generation to impact the world for Christ”.
- Alan Leal announced the voting results: congratulations to Tom Weibert and Richard Lu for being voted in as new board members!
- Alan Leal closed in prayer.