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Job Point in Columbia was founded 60 years in 1965 by the Cosmopolitan Club. It started by helping people with disabilities and began as Advent Enterprises. Job Point president John Scalise joined Fred Parry in-studio for 939 the Eagle's "CEO Roundtable." Job Point aims to become Boone County's first public charter school. Mr. Scalise discussed that and Job Point's history on the Roundtable. John is a Columbia native who was born at Boone Hospital and graduated from Hickman high school. He's worked at places like Lily Pad Laundry, ShowBiz Pizza, Nowell's, Gerbes, MUPC and the Holidome. He's excited about the planned charter school: