• POL_GP-3


    Moffat Consolidated School District #2 
    Board Policy
    Policy Type:GOVERNANCE PROCESS
                                                           Policy Number: GP- 3
                                                           Policy Title:   BOARD JOB DESCRIPTION
     
    Specific job outputs of the board, as an informed agent of the ownership, are those that ensure appropriate organizational performance.
     
    Accordingly, the board has direct responsibility to:
    1.Create the link between the ownership and the operational organization.
     
    2.Create written governing policies which address the broadest levels of all organizational decisions and situations.
     
    a.Ends: Organizational products, impacts, benefits, outcomes, recipients, and their relative worth (what good for which recipients at what cost).
     
    b.Executive Limitations: Constraints on executive authority which 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-Superintendent Linkage: How power is delegated and its proper use monitored; the Superintendent role, authority and accountability.
     
    3.Select the Superintendent, to assure successful Superintendent performance and to establish her/his compensation.
     
    4.Establish tax rates.
     
    5.Influence federal, state, and local legislation.
     
     
     
     
    Monitoring Method: Internal
    Monitoring Frequency: March, September
    Adopted: September 17, 2001
    Revised: November 2001
     
    Moffat Consolidated School District #2 
    Board Policy
                                                                                   Policy Type:GOVERNANCE PROCESS
                                                                   Policy Number: GP- 3 (addendum)
                                                                  Policy Title:   BOARD JOB DESCRIPTION
     
    Handling operational issues raised by a community member:
    1. Listen without implying that you agree or disagree.
    2. Ask whether the caller has talked to the person closest to the problem. Describe the chain of command concept—that issues are best resolved at a level closest to the people involved.
    3. Take the opportunity to explain the board’s role.
      • The board’s job is to set the vision and policies that will enable district students to be academically successful.
      • While resolution of operational issues is not the board’s job, the board is concerned and wants to see the issue resolved successfully.
    1. Tell the caller that if he or she doesn’t get satisfaction to call back ( or direct the caller to let you know what happens regardless).
    2. If the call raises a high level of concern, call the superintendent.
    3. The superintendent will tell the board member that he/she knows about the situation and if necessary, will investigate to get more information.
    4. After gathering information, the superintendent will inform the board member about what was learned or what action was taken.
     
     
     
     
     
    Monitoring Method: Internal
    Monitoring Frequency: March, September
    Adopted: October 14, 2003