Guilford County Board of Education
Regular Meeting
August 30, 2007

To:

Members, Board of Education

From:

Terry B. Grier, Ed.D.

Date:

August 27, 2007

RE:

HUB (Historically Underutilized Businesses) Advisory Committee

At the Board Of Education meeting of March 13, 2007, a motion was approved directing staff and an ad hoc committee of the Board to work together and come back to the Board with a recommendation in regard to composition and purpose for a stand-alone advisory committee to review and make recommendations for HUB firms.

The attached document provides a recap of the various HUB Advisory Committee models that were reviewed/considered in developing a proposed framework for the Guilford County Schools (GCS) HUB Advisory Committee.

Column (A) contains descriptors for the various categories of information that were gathered. Those categories are as follows:

  1. Mission;
  2. Membership;
  3. Terms;
  4. Chair;
  5. Compensation;
  6. Meetings;
  7. Quorum;
  8. Vacancies;
  9. Removal;
  10. Limitations; and
  11. Responsibilities.

The recommendations received from consultant Kenneth Johnson are reflected in Column (B). The information gathered on existing HUB Advisory Committees at North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the State of North Carolina appears in columns (C), (D) and (E) respectively. Column (F) contains the proposed framework

for the Guilford County Schools (GCS) HUB Advisory Committee. The ad hoc committee of the Board opted to propose the recommendations received from consultant Kenneth Johnson with some minor revisions. The categories of information that were revised are highlighted in yellow in Column (F).

The membership category will be discussed further at the August 30, 2007 meeting.

Attachment - Recap of Various Models for Review/Consideration

 

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