With respect to providing information and counsel to the Board, the CEO shall not fail to give the Board as much information as necessary to allow Board members to be adequately informed.

Accordingly, the CEO may not:

1. Fail to submit monitoring data required by the Board (see policy B/CR-5, Monitoring CEO Performance) in a timely, thorough, accurate and understandable fashion, directly addressing provisions of the Board policies being monitored.
2. Fail to advise the Board in a timely manner of trends, facts and information relevant to the Board’s work and implementation of Board policies.
3. Fail to advise the Board of significant transfers of money within funds or other changes substantially affecting the district’s financial condition.
4. Fail to provide for the Board as many staff and external points of view and opinions as needed for informed Board decisions.
5. Fail to advise the Board of anticipated significant media coverage.
6. Fail to advise the Board or individual members if, in the CEO’s opinion, the Board or individual members are not in compliance with the board’s policies on Governance Process and Board-CEO Relations.
7. Present information in unnecessarily complex or lengthy form.
8. Fail to provide a process for official Board, officer and committee communications.
9. Fail to work with the Board as a whole except when:

1. Fulfilling individual requests for information or counsel, provided such requests are not disruptive or do not require an inordinate amount of staff time or resources;
2. Working with officers or committees duly charged by the Board;
3. Communicating with the president.

10. Fail to report in a timely manner any unanticipated noncompliance with any Board Ends or Executive Limitations policy.
11. Fail to supply for the consent agenda all items delegated to the CEO that are required by law or contract to be Board-approved, along with adequate information necessary to keep the Board informed.
12. Fail to establish a procedure for informing the Board in a timely manner of the administrative disposition of complaints presented to the CEO by the Board.
13. Fail to recommend for Board approval school attendance boundaries that consider the impacts on families’ continuity with their school and community, and are appropriate to the effective and efficient operation of the district.

Adopted:
07.07.2003

Monitoring Method:          Internal Report
Monitoring Frequency:     Annually in September

Lake Washington School District Board of Directors