Breakfast for the Brain - Quiz answers April, 30. 1. Under age drinking charge. The world's first space tourist. The prime role of the Board of Trustees, like boards in numerous other sectors, is policy setting. Policies, by definition, are the means of governance, and are therefore the direct responsibility of the Board.
Policies are statements of key expectations.
While the Board may choose to delegate the drafting of policies, it is the Board that finally approves and adopts them. Policies are distinct from management procedures which are the responsibility of the principal, senior management and staff. Management procedures are often a necessary adjunct to Board policies - they set out how things will be done to ensure that the Board's policy expectations are achieved. It is their function to attend to such detail, not the Board's. The Board's role, through policy setting, is to state key expectations, but not the detail as to how those key expectations will be worked out in practice.