Reviewed and confirmed alignment that these four GC goals will be recommended to the board later this month.

Reviewed a draft of the calendarization of each goal so that we can anticipate what we will be discussing at each GC meeting and when those GC outputs will be ready for the board.

Reviewed this OCS and CSRB process and confirmed that Dave will work with Lindsey to make sure we hit all milestones and involve the board appropriately.

Agreed that Dave will bring forward a board composition evaluation and potential bylaw revision recommendation, pending lawyer feedback, that includes the following:

• two more community seats, bringing total community seats to three
• each community seat lasting two years instead of one
• flexibility in whether the board chooses to utilize all three seats each year

Benefits include:

• More dynamic to meet Board needs at different times
• More control for the board to bring in skills aligned to strategic plans
• Keeps odd number of seats
• Maintains majority seats are parents

Brainstorming discussion yielded a draft step-wise plan to enhance board awareness and recruitment.  

• Send two communications to community at end of September including:  (a) board and school goals and (b) comprehensive overview of how parents can get involved and volunteer including a description of board seats.  Also post this on website.
• Identify and have board representatives at select school events to promote and engage parents in conversation about what the board does and is working on.  Events could include curriculum night, parent conferences, carer day, performances, fundraisers, etc
• Proactively assemble a list of parents who have expressed some interest and/or have skills desirable for the board

Jeremy to work with Lindsey to further develop and execute a recruitment approach along these lines

GC members all support using the same ED Evaluation process from 2024-25 for this 2025-26 school year.  Jeremy to lead the ED Eval process this year.

Rhodes Branding presented portions of their proposal including company overview and their process for developing an ERA-specific brand messaging framework.  Total process takes ~2.5 months and includes background research, community survey, and a brand immersion workshop followed by iterative message development.

Agreed that Elliot will lead this together with Lindsey and they will make recommendation to the board that we conduct brand definition work this Fall, including:

• process description
• who is involved
• overall timing
• what deliverables might look like
• competitive proposal summary (if available in time)
• budget requirements

Lindsey will alert Adam that this request is coming and check if budget will allow this expense.