Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School
Minutes
Governance Committee Meeting
Committee Members Present
EJ Lafleur (remote), LATRINA DENSON (remote), Shino Pichette (remote), Vanessa Ford (remote)
Committee Members Absent
Azizah Yasin
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Read Mission Statement
C.
Record Attendance
D.
Approve Minutes - December 2023
No discussion.
Roll Call | |
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Vanessa Ford |
Aye
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EJ Lafleur |
Aye
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Shino Pichette |
Aye
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LATRINA DENSON |
Aye
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Azizah Yasin |
Absent
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E.
Approve Minutes- October 2023
Roll Call | |
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LATRINA DENSON |
Aye
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Shino Pichette |
Aye
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Azizah Yasin |
Absent
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EJ Lafleur |
Aye
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Vanessa Ford |
Aye
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II. Governance
A.
Membership and Term Status Tracking Document
Discussed Current Terms, prepped doc to share with full board.
Discussed nomination for Kiara Badillo.
- Reviewed her resume and interview that she did with Latrina and Shino.
Dicussed nomination for Grace Bannasch.
- Reviewed her resume and interview that she did with Latrina and Shino.
We want to hold off on bringing both nominations of these two great new candidates until we are ready to bring the next folks in the process. There are 3 other people in the nominations pipeline, and we would like to bring all 5 people together to the board for nomination (assuming we choose to nominate these additional 3 people).
We will need to run the nomination process for officers soon. What process do we want to do for this? We need to evaluate who plans to stay on the board and who might be willing to hold positions. Do we want to do a call for nominations for officers? Yes, Latrina will ask the board for officer nominations at the next board meetings.
Roll Call | |
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EJ Lafleur |
Aye
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LATRINA DENSON |
Aye
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Vanessa Ford |
Aye
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Azizah Yasin |
Absent
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Shino Pichette |
Aye
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Roll Call | |
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Shino Pichette |
Aye
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EJ Lafleur |
Aye
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Azizah Yasin |
Absent
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LATRINA DENSON |
Aye
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Vanessa Ford |
Aye
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New Topic - Sessions Latrina attended:
Latrina and Brent attended a Succession Planning Session with Board on Track. It is up to the board to make a Succession Plan for what to do if the Head of School were to leave for any reason. The board needs to ensure that the school functions both financially but also in terms of management. Who would fill the Head of School role if Brent were to leave?
Latrina and Trevin Bond and Brent went to a Diversity Training through the grant. It encouraged looking at diverse staff. Does the board representation match that of the student body.
Latrina will send some materials to the committee members about Succession Planning.
B.
Update on Retreat Schedule
Reminder to complete the survey! Latrina will send another email to board members.
C.
By Laws Update
The subcommittee meeting needs to meet again. We're not yet ready to report out to the Gov Committee. But we are doing a whole revamp as the subcommittee, per DESE's suggestion.
D.
Approve Minutes - January
This was actually approved up near the beginning of the meeting.
Note: We're not sure if we need to do every single thing that DESE recommends for the ByLaws, but rather be sure that we are making ByLaws that align with our needs as a board.
Roll Call | |
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Azizah Yasin |
Absent
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Shino Pichette |
Aye
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Vanessa Ford |
Aye
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EJ Lafleur |
Aye
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LATRINA DENSON |
Aye
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III. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
Roll Call | |
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EJ Lafleur |
Aye
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LATRINA DENSON |
Aye
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Vanessa Ford |
Aye
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Azizah Yasin |
Absent
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Shino Pichette |
Aye
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Latrina read the mission statement.