Governance – chaired by Steven Darroch

• Responsible for Board member recruitment / vetting, management of the grievance process, and oversight of School policy development and review

Note: historic:
Primary responsibility for matters pertaining to Board of Directors recruitment, nominations, orientation, training, and evaluation in accordance with the bylaws of the organization as well as established policies and practices approved by the Board of Directors.
 
Responsibilities

1. Analyze board needs/skills and experience
2. Create a short and long-term board recruitment strategy.
3. Succession plan for board officers.
4. Recruit candidates / develop a slate of trustees for consideration by the membership - annual meeting
5. Board recruitment.
6. Orientation and training plan
7. Board retreat
8. Board member handbook
9. Board-level goals
10. Executive evaluation
11. Evaluate the effectiveness of board meetings/recommend improvement
12. Annual evaluation of the full board
13. Annual evaluation of committee and the objectives

Other considerations:

Technology support/organization
Set up shared folder for governance
Awareness of location of key documents - share: Charter, Bilaws, Handbooks, etc.
SMART goals post board retreat/in line with strategy

Brief: 
1. Intro to our committee (who's who)
2. We met; there are plans for retreat coming together
3.  We're working to refine our committee's charter
4. Contact for governance related questions

Governing Documents in Board on Track
Other places for governing documents?
Needs for communicating/making clear roles

Exploris Director Evaluation and Feedback - Governance Discussion

Align on goals/determine urgency, discuss tools for Director feedback