MCCPS Board of Trustees

Minutes

Strategic Planning Meeting

Date and Time

Wednesday November 7, 2018 at 6:30 PM

Location

MCCPS

Committee Members Present

Eric Larsen, Fred Ferris, Jen Jewell, Jen Stoddard, Martin Trice, Michael Condon, Nina Cullen-Hamzeh

Committee Members Absent

Artie Sullivan, Brandon Bates, Paul Baker, Shelby Morrison, Stephen Veiga, Tom Cudmore, William Sullivan

Guests Present

Karl Smith

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

Jen Jewell called a meeting of the Strategic Plan Committee Committee of MCCPS Board of Trustees to order on Wednesday Nov 7, 2018 at 6:34 PM.

C.

Accept Resignation of Shelby Morrison

Fred Ferris made a motion to Accept the resignation of Shelby Morrison as notified by email on 11/7.
Martin Trice seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

D.

Approve Minutes

Fred Ferris made a motion to approve minutes from the Strategic Planning Meeting on 10-10-18 Strategic Planning Meeting on 10-10-18.
Jen Jewell seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.

II. Strategic Plan

A.

Review and Discuss Strategic Plan

Reviewed draft Strategic Plan summarized by Nina and Artie.  Reduced 5 goals to 3, Student Success, Educator Success, Parent & Community Success.  Organized objectives as:  Continue to do, 1-3 years, and 3-5 years.  Suggested that "Continue to" objectives could be in a narrative form.  Discussion on how Finance, Facilities, and Operations fit in the plan.

Strategic Planning Committee to review to make sure there are not overlapping / redundancies or missing items from original draft.  We want to make sure that the constituencies' voices were heard and included.

Questions discussed and that need to be defined, who owns the "plan", what are the measures, and who does the work.  Possible for existing board committees to review to define and set measures.


 

B.

Community Engagement

Discussed Community "working session" at which Strategic Planning committee, existing Board committees, and interested public would work to refine plan and define measures.  Nina to lead the discussion.  Fred Ferris to speak at Exhibition to invite community to the November 28th meeting .  Fred and Eric will draft talking points.   Jen will send draft of the agenda for meeting to the committee and email board with next steps.

III. Other Business

A.

Review Comparable Schools Benchmarks

Briefly discussed comparable sized and demographics schools.  Nina and Eric volunteered to speak with River Valley and Salem Charter.

B.

Feasibility Study

Karl Smith suggested that the Finance Committee could begin to model financial scenarios.  The following scenarios were suggested:

K-8 - 400
K-6 - 400
4-8 - 345
4-8 - 230

And a replication school in another community - two 230 schools for 460 total

IV. Closing Items

A.

Set Dates for Future Meetings

Next meeting will be Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 6:30 PM.  Board and committee members and the public will be invited.

Subsequently this meeting was canceled.

B.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 8:34 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Jen Jewell