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Foxborough Regional Charter School

Minutes

FRCS Foundation Inc Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Monday February 28, 2022 at 8:00 AM

Location

ZOOM

Committee Members Present

Heidi Berkowitz (remote), Karen Calvert (remote), Kathleen Crawford (remote), Kerry O'Rourke (remote), Luis Soria (remote), Nancy Sepe (remote), Susanna Girard (remote)

Committee Members Absent

John Marston, Lori Rudd

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

Susanna Girard called a meeting of the FRCS Foundation Inc Committee of Foxborough Regional Charter School to order on Monday Feb 28, 2022 at 8:02 AM.

II. FRCS Foundation Inc

A.

Board Development

Kathleen shared: Board Members John Marston & Lori Rudd will be resigning from the foundation Board

 

New Board member suggestions?  None, therefore will leave on the agenda

 

 

B.

Community Engagement

  • Survey Discussion
    • Heidi shared screen with the survey.  (Survey has not been sent out due to needing to regroup to discuss with foundation board.) 
    • Luis asked the intent for the Foundation survey and to be cautious of another survey. Intent: To collect information for the foundation's future and to have a better understanding of what our families, students, etc. want to participate in.  
    • Heidi will speak with Dana Benton Johnson regarding her Panorama Survey and then decide when the Foundation survey will be sent.
    • Added to survey - Interested in becoming a Board Member
    • Goal for responses - 10%-15%  
    • Survey will go out to Families, Teachers, Staff members, Board members, Students, Past donors. 
    • Will analyze/review responses in May 2022
  • Heidi updated board members of Scholarship changes
    • PIE will now be presenting 3 - $1000 scholarships
    • Will discuss the future McGinty and Wood Scholarships in next meeting,

C.

Short Term Project Planning

Foundation will be focusing on the Golf Tournament and Back to school carnival.

  • Golf Tournament ( Nancy & Heidi) Planning and preparation has begun. 
    • Date 7/14/2022, Norton Country Club
    • Nancy has now involved the local police in the golf tournament
  • Back to School Carnival (Heidi) - playing telephone tag, will continue to reach out, planning for August 2022
  • Amazon donations (Kerry) - link has been created, Heidi will add this 'way to donate' to the weekly news letter.
  • Giving Tuesday 2022 (Heidi)
  • 25th Anniversary Gala - Jan 2023 (Luis, Karen, Susie, removed Lori, added Kathleen)  
    • Karen will set up a meeting to discuss date and venues
  • Taste of FRCS - March 2023 (Kerry)

D.

Long Term Program Planning

  • Alumni Database
  • Parent Database
  • Vendor/Community supporters
    • Kathleen - look beyond the current interested parties.
      • Business people
      • Chambers of Commerce's
  • North Eastern Capstone Project - did not discuss
  • Scholarship/changes - keep on agenda to discuss for Class of 2023
  • Kathleen - working on a potential new Foundation logo/tag line to distinguish the FRCS Foundation from the FRCS School

 

E.

Next Steps

III. Closing Items

A.

Approval of Minutes: September 2021

Susanna Girard made a motion to approve the minutes from FRCS Foundation Inc. Board Meeting on 09-27-21.

Removed "cheat sheet' wording

The committee VOTED to approve the motion.
Roll Call
Luis Soria
Aye
Karen Calvert
Aye
Nancy Sepe
Aye
Lori Rudd
Absent
Kathleen Crawford
Aye
Heidi Berkowitz
Aye
John Marston
Absent
Kerry O'Rourke
Aye
Susanna Girard
Aye

B.

Approve Minutes: October 2021

Susanna Girard made a motion to approve the minutes from FRCS Foundation Inc Board Meeting on 10-25-21.
Nancy Sepe seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.
Roll Call
Heidi Berkowitz
Aye
Karen Calvert
Aye
Kerry O'Rourke
Aye
Kathleen Crawford
Aye
Susanna Girard
Aye
John Marston
Absent
Nancy Sepe
Aye
Luis Soria
Aye
Lori Rudd
Absent

C.

Approval of Minutes: 29NOV2021

Heidi Berkowitz made a motion to approve the minutes from FRCS Foundation Inc. Board Meeting on 11-29-21.
Karen Calvert seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.
Roll Call
Kerry O'Rourke
Aye
Nancy Sepe
Aye
Heidi Berkowitz
Aye
Lori Rudd
Absent
Kathleen Crawford
Abstain
Susanna Girard
Aye
John Marston
Absent
Luis Soria
Aye
Karen Calvert
Aye

D.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 8:42 AM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Kerry O'Rourke
The listed matters are those reasonably anticipated by the Chair to be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.