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Veteran board chair urges North Marion trustees to stay out of operations, build trust with superintendent
Summary
Bill Lager, a longtime Oregon board chair, told North Marion trustees at their retreat to keep board and superintendent roles distinct, centralize communications through administrators, read board packets and use an operating agreement to set expectations and preserve confidentiality.
At the North Marion School District 15 retreat, former long-serving board chair Bill Lager urged trustees to clarify roles with the superintendent, avoid operational meddling and build trust through consistent communications. Lager, who has served as a board chair in Scappoose for more than a decade, presented a practical checklist for a board–superintendent operating agreement.
“Stay out of operations,” Lager told trustees in a lengthy second-half presentation. He described the board’s…
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