Policy Goverance

POLICY TYPE:	Terms of Reference	T. 0
POLICY TITLE:	Terms of Reference	Page 1 of 1
New: March 2013	Revised:

 

In Policy Governance we three primary jobs:

 These will establish our governance culture > that lead to our town culture. What is our “Corporate Culture”?

1.    Ownership Linkage - connecting with owners to learn their values about ends that are desired and means that would be unacceptable.

2.    Policy Development - writing those values as guidance for organization and for the board itself.

3.    Assurance of Organizational Performance - monitoring to ensure the organization demonstrates reasonable progress toward desired ends and reasonable compliance with policy guiding means.

The Council’s focus should be at the broadest level of policy that relate to our ownership's values.

This is where we write each policy, as short or long, and only with as much detail as needed then stops writing that policy when we can accept that any reasonable interpretation of its policy language will work to:

              I.        give correct interpretation to the intended reader  

             II.        meet the given goal/goals and

            III.        be set up to be monitored within a plan cycle. E.g. annual, monthly,

 

Context and Notes:

 

1) Council can change or delete any policy in this manual.

 

2) All documents have to be read in their entirety including/with the town bylaws.

 

3) These policies express council’s means not its legal obligations.

 

4) These policies are not bound by law and if any conflict arises the law will prevail.

 

5) From these polices all town planning and decisions will be created. 

 

The Municipalities Act, Town bylaws, Town Polices, Council Meetings, Staff Meetings and public input all feed our Ends.  

 

Polices need to reflect what we are currently doing and/or make it better.  
 
Draft only, gh March 2013