Board-Superintendent Relations (BSR) Policies

Policy: B/SR-1

Title: Single Point of Connection

Status: Active

Adopted: February 27, 2018

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Single Unit Control/Single Point of connection

The Superintendent is the Board’s sole point of connection to the operational organization. The Board will direct the operational organization only through the Superintendent, functioning as the Chief Executive Officer.

The Board will direct the Superintendent only through official decisions of the Board.

1. The Board will make decisions by formal, recorded vote in order to avoid any ambiguity about whether direction has been given.

2. The Superintendent is neither obligated nor expected to follow the directions or instructions of individual members, officers or committees unless the Board has specifically delegated such exercise of authority.

3. Should the Superintendent determine that an information request received from an individual Board member or from a committee is unreasonable or requires a material amount of staff time, the Superintendent is expected to ask the committee or the member to refer such requests to the full Board for authorization.

 

Adopted 02.27.2018

Revised 10.30.2018 (combined with B/SR-2)

Reviewed 07.30.2019

 

Monitoring Method:          Board self-assessment

Monitoring Frequency:     Annually