Board Job Contributions

Policy Name: Board Job Contributions
Policy Types: Governance Process
Number: GP-02
Date Approved: October 20, 2025
Date Amended:
Date Last Reviewed:

As an informed agent of the Ownership, the Board’s specific job products are those that ensure appropriate organizational performance.

Accordingly, the Board has direct responsibility to create:

The link between the the citizens and business interests in the College district (Owners) and the College.
Written governing policies that address the broadest levels of all organizational decisions and situations:

2.1. Ends: What good or benefit the College is to produce, for which recipients, at what worth.

2.2. Executive Limitations: Constraints on executive authority that establish the boundaries of prudence and ethics within which all executive activity and decisions must take place.

2.3. Governance Process: Specification of how the Board conceptualizes, carries out, and monitors its own task.

2.4. Board-Management Delegation: How authority is delegated and its proper use monitored, including the CEO role, authority, and accountability.
Assurance of organizational performance on Ends and Executive Limitations.

3.1. Continuity of the CEO function.

3.2. Structured monitoring of the CEO as outlined in Board-Management Delegation policies.
Approval of annual operating millage rate levy.
Approval of language for ballot initiatives.
Approval of tuition and fees.
Operational decisions that the Board has prohibited the CEO from making by its Executive Limitations policies.

7.1. Decisions regarding acquisition, encumbering, sale or conveyance of land or buildings.

7.2. Decisions regarding change of organizational name or identity in the community.

7.3. Decisions regarding the creation of a subsidiary legal entity.

7.4. Decisions regarding the CEO’s own compensation and benefits.