Governor's emergency order

Paul Baker and Dr. Cohen provided a detailed review of the latest board meeting as well as Peter's Head of School monthly report.  Please see the HOS memo for more details.

Peter then fielded some questions from the committee members including the following:

• Maintaining teacher availability should any 'outbreaks' occur
• Funding for COVID testing (nothing definitive from the state)
• Continuation of remote scenario if needed

The latest composition memo was reviewed and it was noted that there are currently three (3) open seats on the board, with one available to a teacher or staff member of the school.

Board member Ian Hunt has committed to a second term, and the group discussed potential updates to the process where board members conduct a self evaluation annually and at the time of any potential renewal of a term, implementing a required 'statement of intent' as to why the board member wishes to renew their term.
Potential board member candidates were discussed in more detail, and forwarding some relevant information was noted.

The group discussed with Paul Baker the possibility of taking over the chair position on the Development Committee, to which he agreed, noting he would like to remain on Governance as well.
 

The most pressing need identified was the required ethics training for the new members and those board members who have not yet completed that.  Note that this training must be performed every other year.
Also discussed was the requirement for posting publicly all meetings and related information.  

We then went through the calendar and planned items for each month.
 

For the future meetings, the group briefly discussed new board member training and on-boarding.
Follow-up suggested - look into available resources at the Massachusetts Attorney General's office.


 

It was suggested that we attempt to open up new member training to all board and sub-committee members.