KIPP Philadelphia Public Schools

Governance Committee Meeting

September Committee Meeting
Published on July 11, 2023 at 6:01 PM EDT

Date and Time

Thursday September 30, 2021 at 4:00 PM EDT

Location

TBD
A regular meeting of the KIPP Philadelphia Charter School Board of Trustees Governance Committee in joint session with regular meetings of the KIPP West Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School Board of Trustees Governance Committee, KIPP DuBois Charter School Board of Trustees Governance Committee, KIPP West Philadelphia Charter School Board of Trustees Governance Committee, KIPP North Philadelphia Charter School Board of Trustees Governance Committee, and KIPP Octavius Catto Charter School Board of Trustees Governance Committee, with Vice President Ann Aerts.

Agenda

Section Number Topic Number Details Purpose Presenter Time
I. Opening Items 4:00 PM
  A. Record Attendance   Ann Aerts 1 m
  B. Call the Meeting to Order   Ann Aerts 1 m
  C. Approve Minutes   Ann Aerts 1 m
II. Governance 4:03 PM
  A. Charter By-laws review and approval Vote Ann Aerts 10 m
   
KIPP DuBois
KIPP West Philadelphia Preparatory
KIPP West Philadelphia
KIPP North Philadelphia
NOTE: KIPP Octavius Catto (formerly Parkside) reviewed and presented to KPPS Board on Sept. 1, 2021
 
  B. Strategic Plan Update Discuss Albery Corona 15 m
   
Introduction for Albery and preliminary thoughts on plan and deep dive review for updates (if any) to be identified and shared with Board at December Board meeting/retreat
 
  C. Board Recruitment Update Discuss Ann Aerts 20 m
   
Update on pipeline and next steps
 
  D. GC Goals - SY21-22 Discuss Ann Aerts 20 m
   
Discuss DRAFT goals for the GC:

Governance Committee
  1. Work with the Strategic Planning Committee, CEO and Managing Director of Strategy & Planning to oversee execution of the approved strategic plan.
  2. Identify, cultivate and interview potential new board members, including Leadership Counsel (LC) and Young Friends (YFs) members, who: (a) add diversity more reflective of the demographic of KPPS’ student population from the professional and philanthropic community; and (b) support KPPS’ strategic, development and academic needs.  This will include a focus on competency when identifying potential board members (and will also include membership and roles within the LC and YFs).
  3. Develop and implement Board and board member evaluation process.
  4. Facilitate the Legal RFP review and selection process.
 
  E. Legal RFP Update FYI Ann Aerts 5 m
   
Next steps to work with Natalie to build out the RFP and determine firms to ask to participate.  Tentative timeline:
 
Oct. 4-22 - finalize outline, details and questions for the RFP, determine who from KPPS will participate (Mgmt, and Board -- final RFP, responses, participation in oral presentations, etc), agree content (ie what types of legal knowledge, experience, areas of legal focus we may want/need), determine and agree shortlist of law firms to send the RFP (How many do we want to/should we send the RFP to?), assessment criteria determined/scorecard created
Oct. 22nd - send RFP to list of firms identified
Oct. 26 - questions/clarifications from firms due 
Oct. 28 - responses to questions provided
Nov. 12 - RFP responses due
Nov. 12 - Dec. 2 - review responses received and evaluation against scorecard
Dec. 3 - short list of firms developed for oral presentation to panel KPPS Mgmt and Board
Week of Dec. 6 - oral presentations
Dec. 15th - decision made and communicated
Dec. 16 - year end - contracting process completed
 
III. Other Business 5:13 PM
  A. Other New Business FYI Ann Aerts 8 m
   
Any additional new business for discussion
 
IV. Closing Items 5:21 PM
  A. Adjourn Meeting Vote Ann Aerts 1 m