Policy Standing Committee Statements of Purpose and Responsibilities

A. Review existing operational and governance policies that the Board has identified as requiring assessment, update, or organization for consistency with other existing policies.

B. Identify potential areas of policy needs not currently addressed in the Policy Handbook. Develop needs assessment regarding impact due to lack of policy and immediacy of need. Provide to the Board, through the committee chair, for definition of content, consideration of timing needs and approval to proceed in policy development.

C. The committee supports other Standing Committees’ policy review needs.

The Policy Standing Committee members are Donn Howell, Gordon Heinrichs, John Nixon, Ted Key, Claudia Harmon Worthen and Leslie Richards.