The Anchor School
Minutes
Governance Committee Meeting
Agenda posted by: March 26
Date and Time
Wednesday April 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Location
Virtual
Committee Members Present
A. Pressey (remote), C. Humphrey (remote), N. LeBlanc (remote)
Committee Members Absent
J. Burton
Guests Present
G. Stevens (remote), J. Pinto Taylor (remote), M. Felts (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
N. LeBlanc called a meeting of the Governance Committee of The Anchor School to order on Wednesday Apr 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes
N. LeBlanc made a motion to approve the minutes from Governance Committee Meeting on 03-05-25.
A. Pressey seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Governance
A.
FY25 Personnel Contracts
- Offer letters and signing process in progress
- Assume a certain salary band for all new positions (considers level of education)
- Board can consider creating policy or procedure to our offer letter/signing process
- Ex: Creating a board policy to require yearly HR review of offer letter language
B.
Vendor Reviews (Furniture, Transportation, Janitorial, Food Service)
- Dr. PT will share mid-year vendor reports
- Include vendor reviews in next TAS BOD meeting in April/May
C.
Governance Training Check-In
- Every board member has completed required board training
- Next steps: Every board member must watch 2 SCSC required training videos (2 hours) async by June 30th
- Amber will create training requirements document for board members
- Amber will add verification documents from Nicole into Board on Track folders for individual board members
D.
Board Succession Planning
- All board members need to submit prospective members by April 27th
- Proposing mixer on May 8th
- Nicole will review our recruitment deck up
- Amber and Nicole will sync to plan the mixer
E.
HS Readiness/Governance Criteria
In the next 12-18 months for Operations team:
- Proposing adding an unpaid intern for the Operations teams
- Once we add HS we will need to expand Operations from 2 to 3 team members
Facilties:
- Current projections for 6 year growth for 760 students will meet the standard, which is approx. 66 sq. ft. per student
- $500K set aside to renovate the space over the next 5 year, at $100k per year.
- 5 new classrooms will be ready by end of July
Enrollment:
- Skipping, will update in May
Sports:
- Renewal offer with PE teacher to be our athletics director
- Received YMCA verbal commitment
- Nicole & Josh will work on solidifying the partnership with the YMCA long term
HS Readiness:
- Nicole will connect with Jasmine on how the PTO feels about the current facilities and overall experience at TAS
- Committee add notes to Governance Committee Criteria to take to Dr. PT so we can evaluate during spring retreat
III. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 9:28 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
A. Pressey
Documents used during the meeting
- Succession Planning Timeline (2025).pdf
- Governance Commitee: HS Readiness.pdf