Prepping for February Board Meetings

Tommorrow starts the committee meeting journey leading up to the February 17th Board meeting. First up is the Planning Committee chaired by Sean Slattery with Jim Cotton, Chris Wojcik and Dr Daugherty participating. I join as an ad hoc member. Our attention will be on getting some focus groups set up in the next 30 days to gather input on the succession planning work that this committee has been working on for the past 18 months.

The Development Committee will meet on the 15th with plenty to talk about: the recently announced Bleacher Buddy program, future development of the North Campus; input from the Maranatha family about future plans for the school, marketing, attracting and retaining students and families and whatever else we can fit into a hour and a half meeting. Your Dev Committee is chaired by Dr Daugherty with Brandyn West, Dennis Wiley and Shawn Stewart serving.

The Finance Committee will meet on the 17th. I chair this committee and our primary topic of discussion will be salary contracts that will need to be sent out in March. I will report from our last meeting that our financial situation allowed us to provide a small stipend to our teachers and staff. Praise the Lord! We are also diligently monitoring the budget so that we can fund future growth in salaries, development activities and programs. Blake Welch, Dr Daugherty, Bernie Zarda and Rob Metcalf (Rob and Bernie are not currently on the Board) serve on the Committee.

In the Board meeting on the 17th we will discuss motions and results from the committees as well as tackle a couple of Board position statements concerning a definition of growth and governing concepts for financial management.