District Board
Policy 1.2 - Governing Style
The Board will govern with an emphasis on outward vision rather than an internal preoccupation, strategic leadership more than administrative detail, collective rather than individual decisions, future rather than past or present, and proactivity rather than reactivity. Effective governance will depend on encouragement of diversity in viewpoints and will require clear distinction of Board and chief executive roles.
The board will:
- Cultivate a sense of group responsibility. The board, not the staff, will be accountable for excellence in governing. The Board will set the direction for college initiatives. The Board will use the expertise of individual members to enhance the ability of the Board as a body, rather than to substitute the individual judgments for the Board’s values.
- Lead, direct, control, and inspire the organization through the careful establishment and communication of broad written policies reflecting the Board’s values and perspectives. The Board’s major policy focus will be on the intended long term impacts outside the operating organization, not on the administrative or programmatic means of attaining those effects.
- Enforce upon itself whatever discipline is needed to govern with excellence. Discipline will apply to matters such as attendance, preparation for meetings, policymaking principles, respect of roles, and ensuring the continuity of governance capability. Continual board development will include orientation of new members in the Board’s governance process and periodic Board discussion of process improvement. The Board will allow no officer, individual or committee of the Board to hinder or be an excuse for not fulfilling its commitments. Monitoring will be done using a minimum of board time so that meetings can be used to create the future rather than to review the past.
- Monitor and discuss the Board’s process and performance. Self- monitoring will include completing a quarterly written evaluation on Board activity related to the policies on Governance and Board-Staff Relationships as well as alignment with Board goals.
- Provide for a public hearing on the college’s budget, as designated by state statutes.
Drafted: March 26, 1996
Approved: January 14, 1997
Reviewed: February 7, 2002
Revised: November 22, 2005
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