Policy 2.B – BOARD JOB PRODUCTS

Date Adopted/Last Revised: January 27, 2009

On behalf of the “ownership” it represents, the Board of Education assumes direct responsibility for ensuring appropriate organizational performance:

1. The Board will be the conduit linking the ownership and the operational organization.
   a) Needs Assessment: The Board will assess the needs of the ownership as they relate to the organization’s activities and scope of influence, and will develop Goals policies identifying and prioritizing the outcomes the organization will produce to address those needs.
   b) Advocacy: The Board will inform the ownership of the organization’s expected future results, and its present accomplishments.
2. The Board will develop and maintain written governing policies that realistically address the broadest levels of all organizational decisions and situations:
   a) GOALS: Organizational products, effects, benefits, outcomes, recipients, and their relative worth (what good for which recipients at what cost).
   b) MANAGEMENT LIMITATIONS: Constraints on executive authority that establish the prudence and ethics boundaries within which all executive activity and decisions must take place.
   c) GOVERNANCE PROCESS: Specification of how the Board conceives, carries out and monitors its own task.
   d) BOARD/MANAGEMENT DELEGATION: How power is delegated and its proper use monitored: the Superintendent role, authority and accountability.
3. The Board will assure successful organizational performance on Goals and Management Limitations.