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Richfield board reviews draft member goals and creates localized handbook for incoming trustees
Summary
Superintendent presented three governance goal areas and a draft “Richfield-ized” board member handbook; board members asked for measures of success and tentatively scheduled study sessions to refine goals and outreach plans ahead of strategic-plan work.
Superintendent Steve Unowski on Monday presented a first draft of school board member goals and a district-specific board member handbook to the Richfield School Board, saying the materials are intended to help orient new trustees and guide the district’s governance work ahead of a planned strategic-plan update. “We are suggesting that board members set a goal to effectively orient new board members to become a cohesive group, and to partner, as an overall team,” Unowski said.
The draft goals are organized around three annual governance-reflection areas: partnership with the superintendent, connections with students, staff and community, and orientation to policy and the district…
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