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Board Policies
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Policy Type: |
Board-Staff Relationships |
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Policy Title: |
Order Delegating Authority |
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Policy Number: |
BSR-1 |
The president of the College shall have the authority
to exercise in the name of the Board all of the powers and duties vested
in or imposed upon the Board by law, including all powers granted to the
Board as governing body by Chapter 39.34 RCW or any other statute. The
president of the College shall be directly responsible to the Board of
Trustees. The president shall be the principal administrative officer of
the College and shall have general supervision of all operations and
programs of the institution.
The president shall be the appointing authority for
all administrative exempt, classified, faculty, and other employees of the
College; the president may delegate some or all of that authority in
writing to vice presidents and/or other designees. The president shall
carry out all rules, regulations, orders, directives, and policies
established by the Board and shall perform all other duties necessary or
appropriate to the administration of the College. The essence of the
relationship between the Board and the president shall be one of full
mutual confidence and completely open communication.
AUTHORITY RESERVED BY
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The Board of Trustees reserves unto itself the
following authority (unless specifically delegated in particular instances
by definite resolution passed by the Board):
- To employ the president and set the salary and the terms and conditions of his or her employment.
- To organize, administer, and operate the Board of Trustees.
- To adopt, amend, or repeal rules pursuant to the Administrative Procedure
Act, Chapter 34.05 RCW.
- To approve the operating budgets and capital budget request for the
College.
- To approve revisions of $200,000 or more, to the revenues or expenses in
the adopted budgets of any fund, or transfers between funds of $200,000 or
more. Cumulative administrative revisions to the revenues or expenses in
any fund, or transfers between funds, reaching $200,000, will be brought
to the Board as an information item.
- To authorize the purchase or long-term lease (for two years or more) of
real property.
- To establish dormitories, food service facilities, bookstores, and other
self-supporting facilities.
- To borrow money and issue and sell revenue bonds or other evidences of
indebtedness.
- To establish schedules for tuition and fees charged by the institution
(with the exception of co-op fees and other self-sustaining program and
service fees).
- To
enter into major contracts, others than public works contracts, for
amounts in excess of $100,000.
- To
accept gifts, grants, conveyances, devises, bequests of real or personal
property from private sources valued in excess of $25,000 and adopt
regulations to govern the receipt and expenditure of the proceeds, rents,
profits, and income thereof.
- To
approve and execute negotiated agreements with bargaining agents for
academic employees and classified staff.
- To
award and deny tenure and dismiss and/or lay off tenure-track faculty
members.
- To
authorize the award of degrees for appropriate programs of study.
- To
retain the responsibility for the expenditure of state funds by the
College and its agents and employees.
- To
exercise all authority expressly reserved to the Board of Trustees in
rules which have been or are hereafter adopted or amended by the Board
pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter
34.05 RCW.
- To
retain all authority which may be hereafter delegated to the Board of
Trustees by the legislature of the state of Washington, unless such
authority is expressly delegated to the president or his designee.
History of Policy or Procedure
Draft:
November 4, 2003, January 13, 2004, February 16, 2004
Adopted: August 19, 1982, April 15, 2004
Revised: September 18, 1986, October 15, 1987, October 16, 1996, November 19, 1998
Reviewed by:
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