City on a Hill Charter Public School
Minutes
May Joint School Board and Foundation Board meeting
Date and Time
Monday May 21, 2018 at 6:00 PM
Location
CoaH Dudley Square, 2179 Washington Street, Boston 02119
Trustees Present
Alex Valdez, Cara Stillings-Candal, Ginger Parker, Greg Vasey, Jeff Jablow, Karin Wall, Kim Wechtenhiser, Lori Stevens, Matt Shaw, Melisa Lemire, Mike Rosen
Trustees Absent
None
Guests Present
Alyson King, Anne Hofmeister, Cristin Berry, Daniella Satterfield, Katie Kline, Kevin Taylor, Maile Clark, Mike Grossman, Nadege Maniget, Nadine Abraham, Nathan Walsh, Paul Hays, Sally Bachofer, Sam Hughes, Sam Larkan, Sonya Pratt, Tripp Jones, Wanda Nascimento, Wanda Nascimento
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
Ginger Parker called a meeting of the board of trustees of City on a Hill Charter Public School to order on Monday May 21, 2018 at 6:16 PM.
C.
College Acceptances, Summer Programs, and Teacher Hiring/Retention Update
Cara Candal reminded Board members of the brief end-of-year academic update memo in their board packages.
D.
Approve minutes
Lori Stevens noted a correction needed in the February and March Board meeting minutes. Sally Bachofer noted the correction and fixed in the final meeting minutes for February 2018 and March 2018.
Cara Stillings-Candal made a motion to approve minutes from the April Board Meeting on 04-02-18 April Board Meeting on 04-02-18.
Ginger Parker seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Finance
A.
FY19 School and Network Budgets
Matt Shaw, the Board Finance Committee Chair, presented the FY19 school and network budgets to the Boards for review. The budgets include support from Foundation to New Bedford, and a fee to the Foundation for Network services. Sally Bachofer explained the process to achieve balanced budgets, which was a collaborative effort between network and school leadership, and incorporated feedback from the Board Academic and Finance Committees. Matt and Sally and Mike Grossman, chair of the Foundation Board, fielded questions focused on school and organizational financial sustainability. The Foundation Board expressed its verbal commitment of philanthropic support to New Bedford and payment of fees to the CoaH Network for FY2019 at amounts requested by the School Board. The Foundation Board will meet later in June to formally approve its FY19 budget when it has a better sense of year-end close of development activities and cash on hand for FY18 and FY19.
Matt Shaw made a motion to conditionally approve the three City on a Hill school budgets and the Network budget, contingent on the Foundation Board formally approving its budget later in June.
Cara Stillings-Candal seconded the motion.
The board VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
III. CEO Search
A.
CEO candidate interviews
Ardith Myers, Founding Partner of AAM Search, explained the process to select the next Executive Director for City on a Hill. The Board of Trustees then interviewed the current two finalists for the position: Kevin Taylor and Sonya Pratt.
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 8:28 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Cara Stillings-Candal