Policy 4.C - DELEGATION TO THE SUPERINTENDENT

Date Adopted/Last Revised: January 27, 2009

The Board will instruct the Superintendent through written policies that prescribe the organizational Goals to be achieved, and describe organizational situations and actions to be avoided, allowing the Superintendent to use any reasonable interpretation of these policies.

Accordingly:

1. The Board will develop and maintain Goals policies instructing the Superintendent to achieve certain results, for certain recipients at a specified worth or priority. These policies will be developed systematically from the broadest, most general level to more defined levels. All issues that are not Goals issues as defined here are Means issues.
2. The Board will develop and maintain Management Limitations policies that limit the latitude the Superintendent may exercise in choosing the organizational means. These limiting policies will describe those practices, activities, decisions and circumstances that would be unacceptable to the Board, even if they were to be effective in producing the desired results. These policies will be developed systematically from the broadest, most general level to more defined levels. The Board will not prescribe organizational means delegated to the Superintendent.
3. Any limitation policy at a given level does not limit the scope of any preceding level. As long as the Superintendent uses any reasonable interpretation of the Board’s Goals and Management Limitations policies, the Superintendent is authorized to establish all further policies, make all decisions, take all actions, establish all practices and develop all activities. Such decisions of the Superintendent shall have full force and authority as if decided by the Board.
4. The Board may change its Goals and Management Limitations policies, thereby shifting the boundary between Board and Superintendent domains. By doing so, the Board changes the latitude of choice given to the Superintendent. However, as long as any particular delegation is in place, the Board will respect and support decisions made by the Superintendent that are compliant with Board policy, as reasonably interpreted.