Policy 3.I - BOARD AWARENESS & SUPPORT

Date Adopted: January 27, 2009

Date Revised: August 28, 2012

Monitoring Date: December

The Superintendent will not cause or allow the Board to be uninformed or unsupported in its work.

The Superintendent will not:

1. Withhold, impede or confound information necessary for the Board’s informed accomplishment of its job.
   1. Neglect to submit Expectations of the Board reports (including Superintendent interpretations of board policies being monitored, as well as reporting data,) required by the Board (see “Monitoring Superintendent Performance” policy in Board-Management Delegation) in a timely, accurate and understandable fashion.
   2. Allow the Board to be unaware of any actual or anticipated noncompliance with any Goals or Management Limitations policy, regardless of the Board’s monitoring schedule.
   3. Let the Board be without decision information it periodically requests, or unaware of relevant trends, or other points of view, issues and options as needed for well-informed board decisions.
   4. Allow the Board to be unaware of incidental information it requires, including but not limited to, anticipated adverse media coverage, threatened or pending lawsuits, or material external changes.
   5. Allow the Board to be unaware of internal changes that affect the entire system or are of significant public interest.
   6. Fail to inform the Board if, in the Superintendent’s opinion, the Board is not in compliance with its own policies on Governance Process and Board-Management Delegation, particularly in the case of Board or Board member behavior that is detrimental to the work relationship between the Board and the Superintendent.
   7. Present information in unnecessarily complex or lengthy form, or in a form that fails to differentiate among information of three types:
      1. monitoring
      2. decision preparation (or “action item”)
      3. incidental/ “FYI”
2. Allow the Board to be without logistical and clerical assistance.
   1. Allow the Board to be without workable, user-friendly mechanisms for official Board, officer or committee communications and functions.
   2. Fail to provide pleasant and efficient arrangements for Board and committee meetings.
3. Impede the Board’s holism, misrepresent its processes and role, or impede its lawful obligations.
   1. Deal with the Board in a way that favors or privileges certain board members over others except when:
      1. fulfilling individual requests for information, or
      2. responding to officers or committees with respect to duties charged to them by the Board.
   2. Fail to submit for the Board’s Consent Agenda items delegated to the Superintendent yet required by law, regulation or third-party to be Board-approved, along with applicable monitoring information.