Board Job Description, GOV #2b

Specific job outputs of the Board, as an informed agent of the Manson community, are those that ensure appropriate district performance.

Accordingly, the Board has direct responsibility to create:

1. The link between the community ownership and the District’s operational organization.

2. Written governing policies that address the broadest levels of all organizational decisions and situations.

A. Ends: The Mission of the MansonSchool Districtis continuous learning.

B. Executive Limitations: Constraints on the Superintendent’s 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’s role, authority and accountability.

3. Assurance of successful organizational performance on Ends and Executive Limitations.

4. Ballot issues for bond and levy elections.

5. Legislative awareness of the District’s financial and other needs.