Responsibilities of the Individual Board Member
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Code: 9060
Adopted: 3/8/06
Orig. Code: BBAAA |
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBER
The basic function of a Board member is policy-making and not administrative. Board members leave to the President the execution of policy and methods used to enforce the provisions of the policy.
A Board member's guide shall take into consideration the following guidelines as good practice:
Request the opinion of others and graciously accept and support the principle of "majority rule" in Board decisions;
Refer all complaints or problems to the President's office and discuss them at a Board meeting only after failure of administrative solution. Also refer personal criticism of any college operation directly to the President rather than to other college personnel;
Require all college business transactions be on an ethical and above-board basis;
Refuse to use or permit the use of a Board member's position for personal gain or for personal prestige;
Decline to interject personal problems into Board consideration; and
Refuse to participate in secret meetings that are not official and to which all members have not been invited
END OF POLICY
Legal Reference:
ORS 162.015 - 162.035
ORS 162.405 - 162.425
ORS 192.630
ORS 244.040
ORS 244.120
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