Veritas Preparatory Charter School
Minutes
Governance Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday February 11, 2021 at 1:00 PM
Location
Committee Members Present
A. Mendelson (remote), D. Fuller (remote), R. Romano (remote)
Committee Members Absent
T. Moran
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
R. Romano called a meeting of the Governance Committee of Veritas Preparatory Charter School to order on Thursday Feb 11, 2021 at 1:00 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes
D. Fuller made a motion to approve the minutes from Governance Committee Meeting on 01-21-21.
A. Mendelson seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Governance
A.
Assess Current Board Composition
David has looked into the status of the Board composition we will be facing when the current terms of Trustees appointed in 2018 will be ending. The following Trustees’ terms will end on 6/30/21: Lisa Doherty (third term), Ann Errichetti (first term), Greg Moody (second term) and David Fuller (second term).
On behalf of the Committee David will be communicating with each of these Trustees to obtain their plans for continuing service to the school. Assuming all these trustees wish to continue service for another term we will have one vacant board seat. We have discussed PR/fundraising as an area of need and we can gather more input from the board.
B.
Maturity Model
The committee discussed the email with attached report that was sent by Lina Musayev from the MCPSA. Nine trustees completed a survey which generated the report shared by Lina. None of the committee members had thoroughly reviewed the report yet so we will plan to do that prior to our next meeting and to discuss how the report can inform our goals and decisions around the maturity model for the board. We will hold off on further discussion of the maturity model until we have a chance to review the report and have Tom Moran in attendance next month. Rachel will share the report with Tom.
David will include reference to this report at the next board meeting to draw trustees' attention to it and let them know we will be discussing it at the governance committee in March and will bring it to the full board for discussion once we've had a chance to review it.
III. Other Business
A.
Veritas Prep Holyoke
Rachel shared that HPS has selected Veritas as the operator for VPH. Rachel is in discussions with HPS leaders about the enrollment and grade configuration which may inform our decision to continue to manage VPH beyond this year.
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 1:35 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
R. Romano