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2.3 - Board Members Code of Conduct

2.3 - Board Members Code of Conduct

SERIES 2 - THE BOARD AND GOVERNANCE

Individual BOD members are committed to proper use of their authority and to decorum
consistent with maintaining the integrity and discipline of BOD leadership.

A. While the BOD as a body cannot exercise authority over individual BOD members,
the BOD is responsible for the organization’s exposure to members acting as
individuals. To that end, the BOD can exercise authority over the Headmaster’s
response to individual members and can enumerate its expectations for individual
member discipline.

  1. While the BOD expects individual members to be given common courtesy, it does not require the Headmaster and staff to heed any individual member’s opinions or instructions.
  2. Regardless of any individual member’s dissent from a decision of the BOD, he or she must support that the Headmaster is bound by directions given by the BOD as a whole.

B. Individual BOD members may not attempt to exercise authority over the organization
unless explicitly set forth in BOD policies.

  1. Individual members’ interactions with the Headmaster or staff must recognize that individual members have not authority over staff or to insert themselves into staff operations. (Nothing contained in section 2) a) is intended to restrict or discourage normal and open communication between the BOD, staff and community.)
  2. No BOD member can place himself or herself between staff members in their disputes or negotiations.
  3. No BOD member can engage in solving staff problems without approval from the Headmaster

C. Although all members are obligated to register differences of opinion on BOD issues
at the BOD level as passionately as desired, individual members may not direct their
differences in opinion to staff in a manner which would create dissension or polarization in the organization or undermine a decision of the BOD majority.

  1. Member’s interactions with public, press or other entities must recognize that individuals have no authority to speak for the BOD unless specifically authorized by the BOD.
  2. Members will not individually render judgments of Headmaster or staff performance apart from compliance with BOD policies as monitored by the BOD as a body.

Adopted: 02-25-1999