Urban Montessori Charter School
Minutes
Executive & Governance Committee Regular Meeting
Date and Time
Monday August 15, 2022 at 1:15 PM
Location
4551 Steele Street, Oakland, CA 94619. Signage on campus will direct you to the correct room, generally the Sun Room.
The public may comment and participate via Zoom if they prefer. The public may also email comments to christinag@urbanmontessori.org to be shared during the meeting. Please make that intention clear in your email. Please make that intention clear in your email.
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Committee Members Present
D. Leung (remote), G. Klein, S. Morrill
Committee Members Absent
None
Guests Present
K. Feeney
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Approve Minutes from prior Executive & Governance Committee Meeting
No questions or discussion. No public comments.
| Roll Call | |
|---|---|
| D. Leung |
Aye
|
| S. Morrill |
Aye
|
| G. Klein |
Aye
|
D.
Review of Action/Discussion Items
E.
Presentations from the Floor
No public comments not on the agenda.
II. Executive and Governance
A.
Board Goals
Sarah shared her brief summary of the current status of the school, including a strong fiscal position, strong stable school leadership, increased teacher training and access to high quality materials, and that it's a good moment to assess the Board's role and purpose at this time. Sarah will draft a retreat agenda, review retreat resources, and propose a day and time.
No further discussion or public comment on this item.
B.
2022-2023 Head of School Evaluation Process
The committee discussed this year having multiple listening sessions for staff, an online form available, more formal surveys through Panorama and BoardOnTrack. Sarah will bring to the September committee meeting a formal recommendation for the process for this school year based on prior year's work.
C.
Board Assessment 2022-2023
Sarah asked about timing of the annual assessment in years past, and Greg looked up past reports and timing has varied. Last year's was done in the Spring, so pretty recently. Sarah recommends doing the board assessment in January. Committee agrees.
Krishna joined at 1:25pm.
No further discussion or public comments on this item.
D.
Board Membership, Recruitment, and Training
Sarah asked and Krishna responded that the FAC will hold Fall elections for their own officers and the open FAC Board representative seat.
The Board needs to find its next chair, ideally soon, and well before Davis completes his term at the end of 2022. Krishna and Sarah discussed her stepping into the role of Chair. Discussed supporting Sarah to spend more time on campus to have a strong pulse of the school and her willingness to serve.
No further discussion or public comment.
III. Updates on School Policies and Required Documents
A.
Discuss updates to school policies
The committee discussed updates to the COVID-19 Safety Plan in alignment with the latest Alameda County Health guidelines.
Sarah asked about needing to revisit the dress code. Krishna hasn't heard any new information from anyone, and if this topic re-emerges later on, it can be reviewed again.
No other discussion or public comments on this item.
IV. Closed Session
A.
Closed Session Items
At 2:13pm the committee went into Closed Session on Public Employee Performance Evaluation - Head of School. There were no public comments on this item.
B.
Report out of Closed Session
The committee returned to open session at 2:32pm. No actions were taken.
Reordering Agenda under II Executive and Governance from items A, B, C, D to items C, D, A, B.