Policy 4.E - MONITORING SUPERINTENDENT PERFORMANCE

Date Adopted/Last Revised: March 22, 2011

The Board will systematically and rigorously monitor Superintendent job performance to determine the extent to which Goals are being achieved and whether operational activities fall within boundaries established in Management Limitations policies.

Accordingly:

1. Monitoring is simply to determine the degree to which Board policies are being met. Information that does not address policy compliance will not be considered in the evaluation of Superintendent performance.
2. The Board will acquire monitoring data by one or more of three methods:
   1. by internal report, in which the Superintendent discloses, in writing, policy interpretations and compliance information to the Board. As appropriate in a given context, the Superintendent may present information to justify his/her interpretation.
   2. by external report, in which an external, disinterested third party selected by the Board assesses compliance with Board policies, as reasonably interpreted by the Superintendent, or
   3. by direct Board inspection, in which a designated member or members of the Board assess compliance with the appropriate policy criteria, as reasonably interpreted by the Superintendent.
3. In every case, the Board will judge whether (a) the Superintendent’s interpretation is reasonable, and (b) whether data demonstrate accomplishment of or compliance with the Superintendent’s interpretation.
4. In every case, the standard for compliance shall be any reasonable Superintendent interpretation of the Board policy being monitored. The Board is the final judge of reasonableness, and will always judge with a “reasonable person” test (what a reasonably prudent person would do in that context). Interpretations favored by individual board members or by the Board as a whole do not constitute a “reasonable person” test.
5. Actions determined to be not compliant with a reasonable interpretation of Board policies will be subject to a remedial process agreed to by the Board.
6. All policies instructing the Superintendent will be monitored at a frequency and by a method chosen by the Board. The Board may monitor any policy at any time by any method, but will ordinarily depend on the following routine schedule.