POLICY TYPE: BOARD - COORDINATOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LINKAGE

POLICY TYPE: BOARD - COORDINATOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LINKAGE: POLICY TITLE: DELEGATION TO THE COORDINATOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Board job is generally confined to establishing topmost policies, leaving implementation and subsidiary policy development to the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director. EndsPolicies direct the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director to achieve certain results; Executive Limitations policies constrain the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director to act within acceptable boundaries of prudence and ethics. All Board authority delegated to staff is delegated through the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director, so that all authority and accountability of staff can be phrased — insofar as the Board is concerned — as authority and accountability of the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director.

  1. The Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director is authorized to establish all other policies, make all decisions, take all actions and develop all activities which are true to the Board's policies. The Board may, by extending its policies, "undelegate" areas of the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director's authority, but will respect the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director's choices so long as the delegation continues. This does not prevent the Board from obtaining information about activities in the delegated areas.
  1. Only decisions of the Board acting as a body are binding upon the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director. Decisions or instructions of individual Board members, officers or committees are not binding on the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director except in rare instances when the Board has specifically authorized such exercise of authority.
  1. No Board member, officer, or committee has authority over the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director. Information may be requested, but if such request, in the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director's judgment, requires a material amount of staff time, it may be referred back to the Chairman of the Board
  1. The Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director may not perform, allow or cause to be performed any act which is contrary to explicit Board constraints (see Executive Limitations policies) on executive authority.
  1. Should the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director deem it necessary to violate Board policy, s/he shall inform an officer of the Board. Informing is simply to guarantee no violation may be intentionally kept from the Board, not to request approval. Officer response, either approving or disapproving, does not exempt the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director from subsequent Board judgment of the action nor does it impede any executive decision.

POLICY TYPE: BOARD - COORDINATOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LINKAGE: POLICY TITLE: COORDINATOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S JOB CONTRIBUTION

As the Board 's single official link to the operating organization, the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director is accountable for all organizational performance and exercises all authority transmitted to the organization by the Board. Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director performance will be considered to be synonymous with organizational performance as a total.

Consequently, the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director's job contributions can be stated as performance in only two areas:

1. Organization accomplishment of the provision of Board policies on Ends.

2. Organization operation within the boundaries of prudence and ethics established in Board policies on Executive Limitations.

POLICY TYPE: BOARD - COORDIANTOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LINKAGE: POLICY TITLE:COORDIANTOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director compensation and benefits shall be established by the Board and are to be reviewed annually during the regular budget preparation.

POLICY TYPE: BOARD - COORDINATOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LINKAGE: POLICY TITLE:MONITORING COORDINATOR OF MINISTRY/EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE

Monitoring executive performance is synonymous with monitoring organization performance against Board policies on Ends and on Executive Limitations. Monitoring will be as automatic as possible, using a minimum of Board time so that meetings can be used to create the future rather than review the past.

1. The purpose of monitoring is simply to determine the degree to which Board policies are being fulfilled. Information which does not do this will not be considered to be monitoring.

2. A given policy may be monitored in one or more of three ways:

A. INTERNAL REPORT: Disclosure of compliance information to the Board from the Coordinator of Ministry/Executive Director.

B. EXTERNAL REPORT: Discovery of compliance information by a disinterested, external auditor, inspector or investigator who is selected by and reports directly to the Board. Such reports must assess executive performance only against policies of the Board, not the external party unless the Board has previously indicated that party's opinion to be the standard.

C. DIRECT BOARD INSPECTION: Discovery of compliance information by a Board member, a committee or the Board as a whole. This is a Board inspection of documents, activities, or circumstances directed by the Board which allows a "prudent person" test of policy compliance.

Revised 8-18-11