Vida Charter School

Minutes

Governance Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Monday December 14, 2015 at 4:30 PM

Location

Vida Charter School

Committee Members Present

C. Maldonado, D. Marritz

Committee Members Absent

K. Cunniffe Peña

Guests Present

A. Kittelberger, Kathy Hewitt(ex officio)

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

D. Marritz called a meeting of the Governance Committee of Vida Charter School to order on Monday Dec 14, 2015 at 4:40 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes

A. Kittelberger made a motion to approve minutes from the Governance Committee Meeting on 11-16-15 Governance Committee Meeting on 11-16-15.
D. Marritz seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.

D.

Call to the Public

No members of the public were present.

II. Governance

A.

Board member recruitment

Committee checked on next steps from its last meeting.
Has the translated interest form been posted to the web?  No.  AKittelberger will prompt KCunniffe Peña to send the final 2-language version to CMaldonado for immediate posting.
Are board minutes being translated?  This is on CMaldonad's list to start with December 2015 meeting.

The committee discussed potential candidates and agreed that there is a high priority for bilingual board members.
The committee agreed that hgh need areas were professional expertise in technology, marketing, HR.

The committee agreed that prospective board members contacted in Jan/Feb 2015 and who indicated "maybe later" should be re-contacted in this recruitment cycle.

CMaldonado has been working to identify some native Spanish speakers.
DMarritz will contact Amelia Contreras, former board member, for possible board candidates.

B.

Procedures related to board candidacy

The committee did not get to this agenda item.

C.

Governance committee annual calendar

The committee did not get to this agenda item.

III. Closing Items

A.

Next Steps - identify and assign

CMaldonado will continue to work on recruiting prospective board members in the Spanish-speaking community.
DMarritz will confer with Ameila Contreras for board member suggestions.

B.

Announcement of next meeting, January 7, 2016 @ 5:30

C.

Adjourn Meeting

C. Maldonado made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
A. Kittelberger seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 5:30 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
A. Kittelberger