City on a Hill Charter Public School
Minutes
Prep for February Meeting
Date and Time
Friday January 26, 2018 at 3:30 PM
Location
City Year
Committee Members Present
Ginger Parker, Jeff Jablow, Kim Wechtenhiser
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
Sally Bachofer, mike mizzoni
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
Kim Wechtenhiser called a meeting of the Governance Committee of City on a Hill Charter Public School to order on Friday Jan 26, 2018 at 3:30 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Governance
A.
Discuss board member assessment
Committee discussed reviewing this at next board meeting.
B.
Discuss board member and board chair recruitment
We will ideally launch a board member recruitment process in March/April targeting a total of 13 trustees. Goal is to vote to approve new members in August.
In addition to the needs revealed by the assessment, other identified needs include someone like Sally (or with her experience), someone with experience in ed reform policy/practice, and high net worth individuals or individuals with connections to foundation boards.
In addition to the needs revealed by the assessment, other identified needs include someone like Sally (or with her experience), someone with experience in ed reform policy/practice, and high net worth individuals or individuals with connections to foundation boards.
We also discussed the need to formalize board member onboarding materials -- gather bylaws, policies, minutes from past year, open meeting law, job descriptions, etc. Compile these into an "onboarding folder" in BoT.
C.
Discuss board member engagement
Needs will be based on assessment and adjusted based on board member performance/engagement review. Kim will follow up next meeting with a set of assignments for committee members to engage in 1:1 conversations with existing board members to discuss participation in relation to approved board member job description. Jablow will follow up with Jacobs.
III. 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 4:30 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kim Wechtenhiser
Ginger Parker made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
Jeff Jablow seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.