Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School
Minutes
May 18th Governance Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday May 18, 2022 at 7:00 PM
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This Meeting should take about an hour.
Committee Members Present
Andrea Nathanson (remote), Karin Kayser (remote), Marty Espinola (remote), Richard Pouliot (remote)
Committee Members Absent
Jacob Rosenblum, Shino Pichette
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Governance Committee
A.
Succession Planning
We discussed the state of the Governance Committee and the need to provide the Board of Trustees with a slate of candidates for the next year. We reviewed the Board members who might be available to serve as officers of the Board. A motion was made by Karin Kayser and seconded by Andrea Nathanson to recommend David Potter as President, Shino Yoshen as Vice-President, Neil Hede as Treasurer, and Jake Rosenblum as Clerk. The vote to approve of that slate of candidates was unanimous.
B.
Board Membership Update
Andrea Nathanson and Marty Espinola are ending their terms and will not be renewing their Board membership. It was unclear as to who else might be leaving the Board.
C.
Possible Changes to By-Laws
We discussed possible changes to the By-Laws. These included clarification as to the power of the President to appoint Board members to committees and assign those as chairs of committees with or without a vote of the Board. The consensus was that the President should have this power without the need to seek Board approval. Rick Pouliot agrees to draft wording for discussion at our next meeting.
We discussed the need to have the required Annual Meeting of the Board soon. The By-Laws don’t make it clear that it must be before June 30th but we agreed that it should be held before June 30th and that we should recommend that the wording of the By-Laws state this clearly.
III. Other Business
A.
Summer Retreat
We discussed the need to begin planning the summer retreat. It was held on the first Thursday evening of August last year. It was felt that we needed to consult Board members as to their availability to attend such a meeting in late July or early August.
No minutes were available to approve.