Minutes from September 22, 2011 Trustee Meeting
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 1:13PM Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School Trustee Meeting
Minutes of Meeting Conducted on September 22, 2011
(Trustee Meeting #2 of 2011-2012 School Year)
Trustees Attending Meeting: Joelle Kaufman, Josh Smith, Roger Feigelson Madeline Benson, Carrie Ridge, Sharon Hartley, Eyal Ofek, Sherry Lipson, Amy Sosnick, Jeremy Verba, Marina Milshtein, Shawn Becker, Rabbi Dennis Eisner, Caren Neydavoud, Paul Lipman and Rabbi Dan Feder.
RCWJDS Staff Attending Meeting: Barbara Gereboff (Head of School), Fred Wiener, and Michele Ban
Other Attendees: Yaniv Bensadon (parent of student at Wornick)
Meeting Minutes:
Rabbi Dan Feder delivered an eloquent D’Var Torah.
Michele Ban (5th grade teacher at Wornick) gave an update re: the Assessment Plan that is in the process of being formulated. The Assessment Plan will emphasize critical thinking vs. memorization.
Michele and Barbara both recommended that all board trustees read “An Ethic of Excellence”, as it is a very informative book.
Meeting minutes for the past two (2) board meetings were passed unanimously.
Roger led a board discussion regarding the Mission Statement and how it might be amended. Roger will further refine it and post it to the Wornick website.
Sharon and Caron presented an update re: the Conflict of Interest Policy and solicited additional feedback from the board. A revised version will be posted on the website.
Madeline and Fred gave an update re: Wornick’s financial situation and informed the board that the picture is good and improving. The audit committee will be meeting on October 18th, 2011.
Joelle asked everyone to make a gift to the school by October 11.
Amy informed the board that Feast Your Mind will be held on February 26, 2012.
Joelle gave a brief update re: the purchase of the Campus from the City of Foster City.
A motion was made and unanimously passed to add a person to the Board in light of Kevin Tabb’s resignation from the Board (Kevin is relocating to Boston, MA).
The Board then met in Executive Session and all non-trustees left the meeting. Joelle led the discussion. Questions were asked and discussion ensued.
The meeting adjourned at 9:15PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Josh Smith
RCWJDS Board Secretary 2011-2012
October 20, 2011
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