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1. Board committees are to help the board do its job, not to help or advise the staff. Committees ordinarily will assist the board by preparing policy alternatives and implications for board deliberation. In keeping with the board’s broader focus, board committees will normally not have direct dealings with current staff operations.
2. Board committees may not speak or act for the board except when formally given such authority for specific and time-limited purposes. Expectations and authority will be carefully stated in order not to conflict with authority delegated to the chief executive.
3. Board committees cannot exercise authority over staff. The chief executive works for the full board, therefore, he or she will not be required to obtain approval of a board committee before an executive action.
4. Board committees are to avoid over-identification with organizational parts rather than the whole. Therefore, a board committee, which has helped the board create policy on some topic, will not be used to monitor organizational performance on that same subject.
5. This policy applies only to committees, which are formed by board action, whether or not the committees include non-board members. It does not apply to committees formed under the authority of the chief executive.


Drafted: March 26, 1996
Approved: November 26, 1996
Revised: April 8, 1997

Reviewed: February 7, 2002

Reviewed: November 22, 2005

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