F.W. Parker Charter Essential School
Minutes
Governance Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday October 31, 2017 at 8:00 AM
Committee Members Present
C. Regan-Davi, G. Clancy, J. LaPlatney, L. Warner, M. Lindsey, T. Sumner
Committee Members Absent
None
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C. Regan-Davi called a meeting of the Governance Committee of F.W. Parker Charter Essential School to order on Tuesday Oct 31, 2017 at 8:07 AM.
C.
Approve Minutes
C. Regan-Davi made a motion to approve minutes from the GovCom on 10-03-17 GovCom on 10-03-17.
L. Warner seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Governance
A.
Board development
B.
Board Profile
Jeannie is going to edit the photos of Board members. Todd is going to take the action item of creating the infrastructure for the website. Jeannie is going to take the action item of emailing the Board looking for short bios to go up on the website.
C.
Board Recruitment
We will continue to work with Trello next meeting. We discussed the possibility of having a student on the Board. Christine will work on following up with Katrina about the Devens connection and following up with J. Saxe about M. K-C.
III. Other Business
A.
CEO Succession planning
B.
Update on Diversity committee members
Glenn and Laura worked on a blurb for graduate students. This will go to Todd for final review, and then we will send to some Higher Ed connections for outreach.
C.
Other new business
IV. 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 9:10 AM.
Respectfully Submitted,
C. Regan-Davi
We discussed future Board learning at meetings, aiming to get some of this into a calendar that we can use yearly.
We discussed having a "library" for the Board of Trustees, beginning with the Sizer books so that they can take them out as needed.