River Valley Charter School
Minutes
Committee on Trustees Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday February 12, 2025 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
Committee Members Absent
J. Nickerson
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Committee on Trustees
A.
Review of Board bi-yearly internal assessment data
B.
New Member Recruitment
Discussed Board leadership for the future and how to encourage and develop current Trustees so they are comfortable and capable to take on the needed leadership roles.
Action: Google poll for interest in leadership positions for 2025-2026 to be answered at next board meeting.
Looking for candidates that have:
- Finance, leadership, previous board experience/ management skills
- Potential candidates that could take on leadership roles
Looking for 2 new Trustees to join the board next year.
C.
Review COT Dashboard Progress
Did not have time to reach this topic.
Reviewed survey results from Board on Track regarding Board internal assessment.
-Will provide a discussion and summary of results/ insights to full board at February meeting
Noted that we had almost 100% participation of Board members. (1 member did not participate)
It would be useful to have the specific committees participate in sections of the survey that ask questions about those functions of the Board.
Much of the areas that were ranked with a 1 or a 2 were because of a lack of knowledge of the topic by board members, rather than the specific tasks not being competed.
Noted that the "I don't know" response counted as a negative in the overall scoring.
The "I don't know" responses are a good jumping off point for board education topics that could be covered during the monthly full board meetings.
Plan to ask board to retake this assessment at the May board meeting with a 1 week open duration, so that CoT can review and report at the June board meeting.