Present – David Miller, Patrick Endres, Marylee Bates, Heidi Bryan, Tami Manning(on the phone), Sarah Finnell
Open in prayer
Heidi opened us in prayer
Accept minutes from January Strategic planning session
MSP Pat/Dave to accept meeting minutes.
Executive Session Discussion
FYA Business Plan
Heidi has started working on a comprehensive FYA business plan per the strategic plan and will continue to refine that while sharing it periodically with the board for comment and suggestions.Heidi will share it as a google doc so others can have input in the process.
Discussed the annual timeline which gives direction to the board meeting agenda plans and helps keep us on track with major items , Patrick edited the timeline on the board website as discussed
Marylee shared that the construction work on the interior of 132 10th was complete and requested that Wedbush funds be used to pay the bill. MSP Dave/Heidi to accept that money $3865.00 be moved from WedBush to reimburse the account for paying Vision Construction.
Discuss/accept changes to financial policies (bring the pdf document with any suggestions)
MSP Dave/Pat to accept the proposal that was discussed. See Wedbush proposal linked here. All were in favor. No one opposed. The board agreed to review this investment in January 2017 and consider different options.
ED Report:
Property taxes: 122, top floor
FCA/SOAP
Bank account – Alaska USA – low currently due to 2 BHAP payments behind
Daily News Miner: Valentine Thank you to Volunteer Groups in 2016
Christina’s last day: March 6th, Julie’s first day 2/4/17
Review FYA Evaluations for any edits/changes
Board Self Evaluation
The board agreed to not do a written self evaluation but rather have an open board discussion at the March meeting
Conflict of Interest Policy
Will be presented at the March meeting
ED 360 Evaluation
Marylee will review the staff questions and ask the shelter supervisor, Kelly if she is comfortable joining a board meeting for a brief discussion with the Board.
SOAP is under FCA. FCA is closing. (Runaway Homeless Youth) Federally monies, funds the SOAP program. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/fysb/resource/sop-fact-sheet Marylee shared that she has been approached by people in the community suggesting that FYA would be the likely agency to take over this program. While the board recognizes that this is an important service to the community, we do not feel we have the resource depth to take this on at this time. The board wants to focus on our current work, and guard our ED from an excessive work load/burn out. If approached by anyone at SOAP/Washington D.C. the board is not comfortable with FYA moving forward.
