River Valley Charter School
Minutes
Committee on Trustees Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday October 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Location
River Valley Charter School Middle School Humanities Room
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Committee Members Present
A. Ting, C. Getz, E. Bradley, J. Nickerson
Committee Members Absent
None
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
| Roll Call | |
|---|---|
| A. Ting |
Aye
|
| J. Nickerson |
Aye
|
| E. Bradley |
Abstain
|
| C. Getz |
Aye
|
II. Committee on Trustees
A.
Review By-Laws and Committee Descriptions
B.
Facilitation and assessment of Board wide goals
Discuss how CoT will implement a rubric to measure the process of achieving Board and committee goals.
- the survey will help with this
- Retroactively looking back and seeing where we have improved
1. Engagement
2. Recruitment
3. Demographic Expansion
4. Board Health
Dashboard: Summarization that allows us to show and see the depth of a given area of interest and reflect on decline/progression
C.
Board bi-yearly internal assessment
JN-- Board Assessment available on Board on Track!!
Everyone gets every section, for the initial baseline, and then committees specific measuring.
COT members in an ideal world would take it prior to next week's board meeting so they can provide firsthand knowledge about the overall picture-- shortcomings, strength, time commitment etc.
After COT members complete the assessment, we will give the due date for the whole board.
Review By-Laws and Committee Descriptions
The only committee who submitted changes was the development committee--ER.
** "added "and administration"
(see below--- insert
Mission Statement edits were also brought up, but it feels like there should be a bigger group discussion about edits to this.
Revision versus just shortened (use only the first sentence)
The shorter version would be--
The mission of River Valley Charter School is to provide a rigorous academic program based on Montessori philosophy and rooted in the history, culture, and ecology of the Merrimack River Valley.
What would the consequences of it be?
- we need to explore with the state, board on track etc. if there are downstream effects we need to aware of.
EB-- Emphasized the importance of not allowing
JN-- will reach out
Review By-Laws and Committee Descriptions for any recommended edits received from committee chairs--
Gender neutrality
The secretary changed to clerk.
One last call to Committees for changes, then a COT deep dive into the document, AI edit/look tool, then a final logic look.