The GLOBE Academy
Minutes
Governance Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday February 8, 2018 at 6:15 PM
Location
2225 Heritage Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30345
Committee Members Present
S. Camara
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
C. Elliott-Earby, K. Holder, M. Hudson, Michael Simms, S. Moore
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
S. Moore called a meeting of the Governance Committee of The GLOBE Academy to order on Thursday Feb 8, 2018 at 6:17 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes
S. Moore made a motion to approve minutes.
S. Camara seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Old Business
A.
Board Terms and Succession Planning
Malika is working on template for succession planning - out due to flu. Update postponed until the next meeting.
B.
Background Check Update
Ms. Patti has signed up the school with Cogent, the third-party vendor for national fingerprint-based background checks. Awaiting approval from Cogent so background checks can be conducted for the board members. Process will hopefully be started by the next meeting.
C.
Policy
Monique is using template from vendor to work on the policy. Update will be given next meeting.
D.
Board Dashboard and Development
A discussion was held about the creation of the dashboard. Michael will view examples from other schools, review the BoT dashboard, school charter and speak with others in order to make further progress on the dashboard.
E.
Strategic Plan and Related Retreat
Kevin and Christi, along with the admin team, to go through the remaining items of the previous Strategic Plan. Brian is working on the process for conducting an Equity Audit. Sharon will send out notice for the Board to meet on either March 10th or March 24th in regards to closing out the current Strategic Plan.
F.
Annual Board Training
Skills assessments will be completed by the Board to better inform the recommendations for training. BoT has established a new virtual training system.
G.
Bylaws
Stacey is going to review the by-laws of other schools to better inform review and update of GLOBE's by-laws.
H.
Committees (Descriptions, Members, Potential Board Candidates)
Kevin and Sharon are working on capturing the information from each respective committee to post on BoT. Some committees have submitted info thus far.Work will continue to gather all of the information.
III. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
The next scheduled meeting of the committee is set for March 8, 2018 at 6:15 p.m and the following meeting will be held on April 19, 2018.
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 7:33 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
K. Holder
S. Moore made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
S. Camara seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.