B-6. MONITORING POLICY COMPLIANCE
Value Statement:
The Secretary of the Board shall oversee
Board-level activity in monitoring compliance with Board policies and
directives. This activity, which will complement but not replace the oversight
responsibility of the College President, shall be done without reference to the
personal opinion of the Secretary about the value or correctness of the policies,
and shall not extend to any aspect of College operations that is not covered by
a current Board policy or resolution.
The College administration shall provide
information and assistance in this task as requested by the Secretary, subject
to an appeal by the President to the Board if any such request is felt to be unreasonable.
Other trustees who have questions or concerns
about non-compliance should direct them to the Secretary, who shall pursue them
at his or her discretion and shall report to the Board on any aspects of
college operations found, in his or her judgment, to be non-compliant. If the
Secretary does not pursue an issue to the satisfaction of a trustee, the
trustee may bring the question to the Board for a vote on whether or not it
should be certified as an important monitoring issue. The Secretary shall give
priority to and make reports on any issues that are thus identified by Board
vote.
The President (or Board Chair, for Board
activities) shall, for each non-compliance report from the Secretary, provide
the Board either a compliance plan, a recommendation for policy modification,
or an explanation of why the practice in question is seen as already being in
compliance. If the Secretary thereafter states in writing that he or she
continues to believe that the practice does not comply with Board policy, the
question must be put on the Board agenda as soon as practicable for Board
decision. If the Board finds that the practice is not in compliance, it will
require the President to achieve compliance.
Each fall, the President shall also provide
the Board an annual schedule of planned routine and special-attention
policy-compliance reports.
Non-compliance reports by the Secretary are
only advisory; authoritative Board directives to change college practices can
come only from a public Board vote.
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