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Trustees discuss making the policy director report to the board; request draft job‑description language
Summary
Board members discussed giving the district policy director a dotted-line report to the board so the position could act on board-directed policy work; trustees asked one member to draft proposed language and requested staff return with job‑description options.
Board members resumed a prior discussion about whether the district’s policy director should have a direct (dotted‑line) reporting relationship to the School Board. Trustees said codifying a dotted-line relationship would clarify the policy director’s responsibility to deliver board‑directed policy work without requiring clearance from the superintendent for board‑assigned tasks.
Trustees discussed potential ramifications and said the change would need to be reflected in a job description. School Board Member Nicholas offered to draft proposed language for inclusion in the policy director’s job description; trustees asked staff to provide the existing job description and consider how a dotted-line report would affect workflows, meeting access and priority-setting.
Why it matters: Trustees said policy is the board’s responsibility and that direct access to a policy point person could speed production of board‑requested policies and reduce intermediated delays. Staff cautioned that implementation would require written job‑description changes and clarified that some tasks already exist in practice but are not codified.
Next steps: Board members asked Nicholas to prepare draft language for board review and requested that staff provide the current job description and related materials for comparison. No formal personnel action was taken at the meeting.
