May 2010 GC Meeting Agenda

1. Ray to talk to Steve to get on the board agenda to further propose Ends Policies going forward. Suggestions include:
   a. For each existing DC program (Spark, Efficacy, etc) and assign board members to come up with Ends statements. Benefit is to get board members opportunity to engage and to understand more deeply the programs.
   b. Ray will fine tune the Ends example he put together for Spark as "template" for the style of what an Ends Policy would look like.
      -- See what Ray presented in the March Board Meeting.
      -- Also, please see what Al had transformed to DCCC's online format per this link:

http://diversitycouncil.middlewaygroup.com/[…]/view

1. All officers terms (President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer)are two year terms. Folks can serve a maximum of two terms in the same office.
2. Steve, Ray, Joan and Bob's officer terms will be expiring at the end of 2010 and we will need to recruit, nominate and elect new officers.
3. Suggestions:
   Al to talk to Steve to get on the board agenda for a 15 minute discussion per the following:
   a. Solicit from the board what qualities the board officers as a whole and individually should ideally possess and therefore as a board we will consciously develop and recruit long term.
      - Leadership
      - Visibility to the community
      - Commitment to the vision/mission
      - Understanding of operational principles of a policies governance board.
   b. Get each current officer to think about what their experience has been in their office and what they think are important for their role.
   c. Get incumbents to think about whether they will want to serve a second (two year) term.
   d Though as customary in non-profit boards, multiple contestants for an office is unlikely what if that happens?
   

Might suggest that the VP role is one that normally will succeed the president.

Good idea to have formal/informal contact with the owners:
Ideas include:
1. Invite the representatives from our stakeholder interest groups to attend board meetings.
2. Have "owners" reps (sponsors, constituents, clients of each End policy area (Spark, Efficacy, Race Exhibit, etc)to come present to the board.
3. Our board's operations and policies by default should be transparent to the public.
4. Obvious tie-in and linkage to the Community Engagement initiative

Ray, Kathy and Al