Whatcom Intergenerational High School
Minutes
Governance Committee
Date and Time
Thursday April 11, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Location
WIHS Board is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: WIHS Governance Committee
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Committee Members Present
Committee Members Absent
J. Johnson, N. Mughal-Barrows
Guests Present
B. Luu (remote), C. Espina, M. Price (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
II. 6. Governance
A.
Board Meeting- Consent Agenda Items
- M/B will check for samples or updates on the Grad Requirement Waivers for charter schools
B.
April Board Meeting Agenda Items
- Jonathan/Nasreen to check if Miles wants to remain on the board and participate, or submit his resignation
- Consider adding brief summary/minutes from committee meetings into the consent agenda
III. Other Business
A.
Other Governance Items for Discussion
- Discussion of 5-year plan
- Need short term (1 and 2-year) plans to intensively get to renewal
- Develop 5 yr plan looking for gaps and where school should go
- Have board review actual charter to think about school goals and help formulate the plans based on realities of students served
- Charter renewal process
- Mitch will send link to anything on Commission website
- Jonathan may have out of state renewal experience
- Check with Anders and other charters who may have gone through the process already for support
- Levy match
- Passed for $1500 per student based on 22-23 SY count. Review finances with JGP and see where this will provide most flexibility
- How to ensure meetings occur and increase access
- Check Board Zoom settings to allow people into meeting before hosts join so that can ensure people aren't waiting
- Have committee leads be responsible for setting agenda and summarizing/taking meeting minutes in BoT
- Discuss- remove governance meetings, and include info in Board Chair/School Leader bi-weekly meetings
- Governance meeting is not required, but was established for school support during board and admin transition time
- Dawn to discuss with Jonathan if want to keep meeting- maybe include it in one of the bi-weekly meetings instead of additional stand alone
- Plan to keep governance meeting for May, and notify bely/mitch if decide to change it
- Legal questions
- What can school legally ask about new enrolled student coming from inpatient and/or Juvenile Detention settings?
- Very limited on what can ask when applying, but possibly more after they are enrolled. Contact other schools directly.
- Verify w/ Cedar law
- Can school hide hateful comments on FB?
- Check w Anders and Diana on 1st Amendment- see document Mitch sent to them
- Maggie may be able to help with wording of responses if needed
- Verify with Cedars Law if needed
- What can school legally ask about new enrolled student coming from inpatient and/or Juvenile Detention settings?