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Communication and Support to the Board

  • Policy Name: Communication and Support to the Board
  • Policy Types: Executive Limitations
  • Number: EL-08
  • Date Approved: October 20, 2025
  • Date Amended: 
  • Date Last Reviewed: 

The CEO shall not permit the board to be uninformed or unsupported in its work.

Further, without limiting the scope of the above statement by the following list, the CEO shall not:

  1. Withhold, impede, or confound information relevant to the Board’s informed accomplishment of its job. 

    1.1  Allow the Board to be without sufficient timely and relevant decision information.  

    1.2  Neglect to submit timely monitoring data including interpretations of Board policies that provide the observable metrics or conditions that would demonstrate compliance, rationale for why the interpretations are reasonable, and evidence of compliance. 

    1.3  Let the Board be unaware of any actual or anticipated non-compliance with any Ends or Executive Limitations policy, regardless of the Board’s monitoring schedule. 

    1.4  Let the Board be unaware of any incidental information it requires such as anticipated negative media coverage, actual or anticipated material legal settlements, and material or publicly visible internal changes or events, including changes in executive personnel. 

    1.5  Allow the Board to be unaware that, in the CEO’s opinion, the Board is not in compliance with its own policies on Governance Process and Board-Management Delegation, particularly in the case of Board behavior which is detrimental to the work relationship between the Board and the CEO. 

    1.6  Present information in unnecessarily complex or lengthy form, or in a form that does not clearly differentiate among monitoring, decision preparation, and general incidental or other information.

  2. Allow the Board to be without reasonable administrative support for Board activities.

    2.1.  Neglect to designate the support required for the organization and administration of regular, closed, and special board meetings

  3. Impede the Board’s holism, misrepresent its processes and role, impede its lawful obligations, or assume prerogatives of the Board.

    3.1.  Neglect to supply for the Required Approvals Agenda all items delegated to the CEO, yet required by law, regulation or contract to be Board-approved, along with the applicable monitoring information.