No members of the public were present, aside from our community consultants Jenny Dumont and Samantha Brandauer.

K.Cunniffe explained how the Vida board struggled in past years to complete board tasks, with very long (sometimes 4-5 hour long) board meetings. K.Cunniffe had worried about this issue when recruiting new members last year - how would the board retain community members when monthly board service was way beyond the suggested 10-12 hours per month? The board received expert advice from 2 agencies that work with charter school boards across the country, Charter Choices and Board on Track. According to both agencies, the Vida board needed to make meetings more efficient by better using its board committees to accomplish board tasks. Both agencies noted that most charter school boards are smaller working groups of the board and do not include teachers, community members, etc. However, the Vida board values the community input. In August, members voted on a compromise solution to include "community consultants" for some meetings while having only board members as voting members.

The committee approved the following goals for the 2015-16 school year: 1) Implement annual assessments of current board members. 2)Use assessments and other tools to influence recruitment plans. 3)Create a mechanism for board to publicize its needs for expertise and a form for community members to express interest and offer relevant expertise to the board. 4) Recruit at least 4 candidates for the 2016 open board seats using the recruitment action plan. 5) Professionalize meeting presentation for both committee and board meetings. C.Maldonado suggested a sixth goal related to the review of school policies. A.Kittelberger noted that this is more of a job description than a goal. Other committee members weighed in that we could make it a goal to review X number of policies per meeting. However, since policy review depends on a business manager to bring policies to the committee for review, the committee agreed to wait until a new business manager is hired.

K.Cunniffe provided a draft interest form to members. S.Brandauer, D.Marritz and J.Dumont all suggested corrections and clarifications. Committee agreed on a final draft to present to board of trustees for approval.

Committee made several corrections/clarifications to the draft report and agreed to submit to the board of trustees for approval.