June 17, 2021
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Board Meeting
Online Zoom Room
I. BOARD AGENDA REVIEW (Board Chair)
a. Call of Meeting to Order
b. Attendees/Introductions/Quorum
c. Agenda Revisions
d. Approval of Minutes Previous Board Meeting
II. Nomination (Alison Manwiller)
i. Executive Director Program Leader Acknolwedgement
ii. Retirement of Dawn Nordine
iii. Board of Director Member Appointment Form
iv. Membership Review
v. Nominations
III. Executive Director Report
a. Executive Director Organizational Results (WEN Executive Director)
i. Board Results: Year in Review: Governance, Administration
ii. Annual Board Survey
iii. Who we are Framework and Pathways
iv. New Member Update
v. 10/20 Year Celebration
vi. Closed Session: Personnel
vii. 2021 Meetings
a. Bylaws (Kelly Pochop)
i. Results: Investment Policy, and By Laws, Policy and Procedures
b. Legislative (Dawn Nordine)
i. Results: NA
c. Partner Success (Jill Gurtner)
i. Results: Year in Review
ii. Statewide Playbook
d. Emerging Technologies and Resources (Erik Hanson)
i. Results: Year in Review
ii. FLVS Contract and Purchase
iii. Licensed Digital Content Contract Renewals
iv. Tutor.com Pilot
v. Qualtrics
vi. Genius Development Contract
e. Finance (Shelly Gillmore)
i. Results: Year in Review
ii. 2020-21 Budget To Date
iii. WDLC and CARES Subsidy
iv. 2021-22 Budget First Review
IV. ACTION ITEMS (Board Chair)
a. To approve/deny the nominations results for elected officers and board of directors as presented.
b. To approve/deny new board committee appointments as presented.
c. To approve/deny the adoption of WEN Inc. Bylaw revisions as presented.
d. To approve/deny new affiliate memberships with Lake Geneva Schools and Sparta Area School District.
e. To approve/deny the adoption of the Statewide Guide.
f. To approve/deny personnel recommendations as discussed in closed session.
g. To approve/deny the Executive Director to execute the Florida Virtual School Contract as presented.
h. To approve/deny contract extensions with Speechstream upon due date not to exceed $25k
i. To approve/deny Tutor.com pilot project as presented not to exceed $30k.
j. To approve/deny the Genius Inc. Development contract extension as presented.
k. To approve/deny the one-year extension in the current Freshair Educators (Kalkomey) contract.
l. To approve/deny Executive Director to execute a one-year extension with Stride (Middlebury).
m. To approve/deny the execution of Qualtrics project not to exceed $10k as presented.
n. To approve/deny the adoption of the 2021-22 Budget as presented.
o. To approve/deny the adoption of WEN Inc. Pathways as a formal strategy to develop as part of 2021-22.
p. To approve/deny the Executive Director to move forward with a formal engagement with US Bank as the WEN Inc. Investment Advisor.