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Community Regional Charter School

Minutes

Governance Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Wednesday September 7, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Location

Creative Children's Academy

48 South Factory Street

Skowhegan, ME

Committee Members Present

D. Denis, N. Reinholt, T. Arnold

Committee Members Absent

None

Guests Present

T. Works

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

T. Arnold called a meeting of the Governance Committee Committee of Community Regional Charter School to order on Wednesday Sep 7, 2022 at 1:04 PM.

II. Governance Committee

A.

Board Self Assessment - Update

Review Board On Track Self -Assessment and recommended goals for next year:

  1. Board development - quarterly 2-hour trainings
  2. Develop a Board Calendar for the year
  3. Board manual - communicate Board Member expectations

This group is agreement to adopt these goal for this committee for the year. 

 

Other discussion and questions:

  • Does BOT provide monthly/bimonthly/quarterly trainings? 2 hour quarterly meeting for training purposes only. Do we as a committee build out a comprehensive training schedule and present it to the whole Board. 
  • What does our board need specifically to be the best board it can be for CRCS. Does the board want to do a 4-6 hour training together to give ourselves a solid foundation? The most common format in public schools that has been seen is a 2-hour training with MSSA or its lawyer that goes through required pieces. 

The committee will share these goals with the Board and the proposal for additional quarterly 2 hour trainings. 

B.

Policy Audit

206 polices have been reviewed. 37 remaining as of 8/31/22

 

Tonya is comparing policies to recently updated policies in other districts.

 

Discussed elevating the need for Charter Schools to have access to model policies from an entity that can do what MSMA does for public schools. 

C.

New Member Orientation - Update

Since we are trying to build a baseline training, this will be built along the way.

D.

Committee Descriptions

Bullet committee members. 

 

Board Chair will send each description to respective committees for review. 

III. Existing Policies

A.

Policy Development Policy BG

It is the recommendation of this committee that policy BG go to the full board for a first reading. 

B.

Review Policy BG-R Policy Adoption and Amendment

It is the recommendation of this committee that policy BG-R go to the full board for a first reading. 

C.

Slate of policies that require no change to bring to full Board for Review

The following policies have not been reviewed in the last 5 years and require no change. It is the recommendation of this committee that these policies be reapproved without any changes.

DI

DID

DIDA

DIE

DJA

DJC

DM

DN

D.

Editing Policies

IV. Closing Items

A.

Agenda Items for Next Month

Jessica Carter to discuss changes to policy ADC & ADC-R tobacco policies. 

 

November invite Betsy to discuss Narcan policy.

 

B.

Approve minutes from today's meeting

D. Denis made a motion to Approve meeting minutes to be presented to the board.
T. Arnold seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

C.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 2:49 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
T. Arnold