Agenda - 09-20-2022; 8-a - Minutes

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31 1 Communication expectations re: advisory boards and commissions 2 o Reporting back to colleagues. How? When? Where? 3 o Expectations of serving 4 Lydian Altman said the Board will evaluate this retreat at the end to inform future 5 retreats. 6 Chair Price said related to time for more interactions, the Board can't meet outside of 7 scheduled meetings so are limited on when they can come together, so maybe they can change 8 the way they do retreats or work sessions. 9 Lydian Altman asked if that means spending more time together or spending the time 10 they have together differently. 11 Chair Price said if they used their scheduled time differently, there may be more time to 12 interact with one another. 13 Commissioner Richards said if there was a calendar for future work session topics and 14 some way to share information ahead of time, or follow the INFORM —>THINK TIME4DECIDE 15 strategy, which might help things. She said the Board doesn't want to get into a situation where 16 they are always kicking the can on everything because there is work that has to get done, but 17 because some of them have the desire to want to have more information, how can they achieve 18 this. She said even if they establish comfortability in asking for an item to be delayed, they don't 19 want to make that the norm after work goes into establishing a plan and calendar. 20 Lydian Altman reiterated that what topics may deserve more time could be informed by 21 the strategic plan. 22 Commissioner Greene said she agrees with everything Commissioner Richards said. 23 She said she isn't sure items needing more time can be predicted in advance but agrees it 24 wouldn't be everything that is delayed. 25 Lydian Altman said when they come back from break, they will break back out into 26 groups to review what changes might be necessary on specific items to be a higher performing 27 body and then report out to the whole Board to get a sense of where people fall on the scale of 28 agreement. 29 30 The Board recessed for a break from approximately 2:20 pm until 2:32 pm. 31 32 The Board continued their discussion on Moving Towards Board Excellence via breakout 33 groups. 34 Group A included Commissioner Hamilton and Commissioner Richards, Group B 35 included Chair Price and Commissioner Bedford, and Group included Commissioner Fowler and 36 Commissioner Greene. 37 Each group was asked to consider what the governing board might have to do differently 38 to move towards the high performing priorities on the slide below. Group A discussed the first 39 three topics, Group B discussed the next three topics, and Group C discussed the last three 40 topics.