2013

Violation of Board Ethics

The board of education is responsible for enforcing the code of ethics of its members. If any member of the board commits a serious or repeated violation of the code, the board may take any of the following steps:

1. The board president may confer with the board member who has violated the code of ethics in order to:

a. Identify the provision of the code that the member has violated;

b. Propose how the member can remedy the violation;

c. If the board member who violated the code is the board president, the vice president is empowered to confer with the president about the violation.

2. The board may discuss the violation as an agenda item at a meeting to confront the offending board member. However, the board will not enter closed session to hold the discussion of the ethics violation unless the Open Meetings Act authorizes a closed session.

3. The board may vote to publicly censure any board member who commits a serious or repeated violation of the code. The board will pass a censure motion to inform the community that an individual member of the board is not fulfilling the responsibilities for which he or she was elected.

Adopted on: 1/1/2017

Revised on: 8/20/2018

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