B/CR-1
Policy
Type: Board/CEO Relationship
Single Point of Connection
The CEO 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.
Adopted:
Monitoring Method: Board
self-assessment
Monitoring Frequency:
Annually in ____________
B/CR-2
Policy
Type: Board/CEO Relationship
Single Unit
Control
The Board will direct the CEO only
through official decisions of the full Board.
1. The Board will make decisions by formal, recorded
vote in order to avoid any
disclarity about whether direction has
been given.
2. The
CEO is not obligated to follow the directions or instructions of individual
Board members, officers and committees unless the Board has specifically delegated
such exercise of authority.
3. Should
the CEO determine that an information request received from an individual
member or a committee requires a material amount of staff time or is
unreasonable, the CEO may refuse such requests and ask that the member or the
committee refer such requests to the full Board for authorization.
Adopted:
Monitoring Method: Board self-assessment
Monitoring Frequency: Annually in ___________
B/CR-3
Policy
Type: Board/CEO Relationship
Staff
Accountability
The CEO is responsible for all matters
related to the day-to-day operation of the district, within the values
expressed by the Board in policy. All staff members are considered to report
directly or indirectly to the CEO.
1. The Board will never give direction to any
employee other than the CEO.
2.
The Board will not formally or
informally evaluate any staff member other than the CEO.
3.
Except as required by law and thus
disposed of by the consent agenda, the Board will not participate in decisions
or actions involving the hiring, evaluating, disciplining or dismissal of any
employee other than the CEO.
3.1 The top three candidates for all Management
positions will be presented to the Board prior to hiring. The Board will be informed of the time, date
and location of interviews involved in the hiring process of these positions
and trustees may observe the interviews for the stated positions at any level.
Adopted:
Monitoring Method: Board self-assessment
Monitoring Frequency: Annually in ________
B/CR-4
Policy
Type: Board/CEO Relationship
Authority of
the CEO
The Board will provide direction to the
CEO through written policies that define the organizational results to be
achieved for students and define operational conditions and actions to be
accomplished or avoided.
1.
The Board will develop Results policies instructing the CEO
to achieve defined results for the students served by the district.
2.
The Board will develop Operational Expectations and Parameters
policies which express the Board’s values about operational conditions and
actions. Certain of these values will be expressed positively to assure that
the stated actions occur and the identified conditions exist, and will be
stated as directives. Certain other values represent actions and conditions
that are to be avoided, and will be stated prohibitively.
3.
As long as the CEO uses any reasonable
interpretation of the Board’s Results
and Operational Expectations and
Parameters policies, the CEO is
authorized to establish any additional policies or regulations, make any decisions, establish any practices and
develop any activities the CEO deems appropriate to achieve the Board’s Results
policies. The CEO is not expected to seek Board approval or authority for any
such decision.
1.
The Board may change its Results and Operational Expectations and
Parameters policies, and in so doing shift the boundary between Board
and CEO areas of responsibility. The Board will respect and support any
reasonable interpretation of its policies by the CEO, even though CEO decisions
may not be the decisions the Board or its members may have made.
Adopted:
Monitoring Method: Board self-assessment
Monitoring Frequency: Annually in ______________
B/CR-5
Policy
Type: Board/CEO Relationship
CEO
Accountability
The
Board considers CEO performance to be identical to district performance.
District accomplishment of the Board’s Results policies and operation
according to the values expressed in the Board’s Operational Expectations and
Parameters policies will be considered successful CEO performance.
These two components define the CEO’s job responsibilities.
CEO
performance will be monitored systematically against the CEO’s job
responsibilities: reasonable progress toward accomplishment of the Board’s Results policies, and district
operation according to the values expressed in the Board’s Operational Expectations and
Parameters policies.
1. The Board will determine organizational performance based upon a systematic monitoring process.
2. The Board will acquire monitoring data
on Results and Operational Expectations and Parameters
policies by one or more of three methods:
a. By
Internal Report, in which the CEO submits information that
certifies and documents to the Board compliance or reasonable progress;
b. By
External Review, in which
an external third party selected by the Board assesses compliance or reasonable
progress with applicable Board policies;
c. By
Board Inspection, in which the whole Board or a committee duly
charged by the Board formally assesses compliance with or reasonable progress
on the appropriate policy criteria.
3. The consistent performance standard for
Operational Expectations and
Parameters policies shall be whether the CEO has:
a. reasonably
interpreted the policy and its subparts;
b. complied with the provisions of the
Board policy being monitored.
4. The consistent performance standard for Results
policies shall be whether the CEO has:
a. reasonably
interpreted the policy and its subparts;
B/CR-5
b. made
reasonable progress toward achieving the Board’s defined Results
policies.
c. The Board
will make the final determination as to whether CEO interpretation is
reasonable, whether the CEO is in compliance and whether reasonable progress
has been made. In doing so, the Board
will apply the “reasonable person” standard.
5. All
policies that instruct the CEO will be monitored according to a schedule and by
a method chosen by the Board and included in the Board’s annual work plan. The
Board may monitor any policy out of this defined sequence, if it is determined
by a majority of the Board that conditions warrant monitoring at times other
than those specified by the annual schedule.
6. Each September the Board will conduct a
formal summative evaluation of the CEO.
The summative evaluation will be based upon data collected during the
year from the monitoring of Results and Operational Expectations and Parameters policies. The
Board will prepare a written evaluation document.
The evaluation document will consist of:
a. A summary of the data derived during
the year from monitoring the Board’s Results and Operational Expectations and Parameters policies;
b.
Conclusions based upon the Board’s
prior action during the year relative to the CEO’s reasonable interpretation of
each Result policy and whether reasonable progress has been made toward its
achievement;
c.Conclusions
based upon the Board’s prior action during the year relative to whether the CEO
has reasonably interpreted and operated according to the provisions of the Operational Expectations and Parameters
policies.
Adopted:
Monitoring Method: Board self-assessment
Monitoring Frequency: Annually in _________________
B/CR-5-E
Policy Type:
Board-CEO Relationship
ANNUAL
SUMMATIVE EVALUATION
of
the CEO
The Board’s Policy B/CR-5 provides
that:
Each September the Board will
conduct a formal summative evaluation of the CEO.
The purpose of the annual evaluation of the CEO is to
summarize the actions previously taken by the Board as it monitored Results and Operational Expectations and Parameters policies during the year,
and to draw conclusions on that basis.
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Operational
Expectations/Parameters Policy: Date Monitored:
Board Disposition:
OE/P-1 Global Operational
Expectation/Parameter
OE/P-2 Emergency CEO Succession
OE/P-3 Treatment of Stakeholders
OE/P-4 Personnel Administration
OE/P-5 Financial Planning
OE/P-6 Financial Administration
OE/P-7 Asset Protection
OE/P-8 Communicating with the Board
OE/P-9 Communicating with the Public
OE/P-10 Instructional Program
OE/P-11 Discipline
OE/P-12 Learning Environment
OE/P-13 Facilities
B/CR-5-E
Results
Policies: Date Monitored: Board Disposition:
R-2
R-3
R-4
R-5
R-6
Based upon the Board’s prior monitoring
of these policies and the on-going monitoring of the organization’s and the CEO’s
performance during the preceding year, the Board reaches the following summary
conclusions relative to CEO performance:
Based upon the foregoing conclusions,
the Board makes the following decisions for the coming year:
Signed: Date:
President/Chair of
the Board
Signed: Date:
Chief Executive
Officer/Superintendent