CODE: 9270
SECTION: BYLAWS OF THE BOARD
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The Board of Education accepts the responsibility of governing the operation of the district in the best interests of the total community. Individual members all subscribe to the philosophy and guidelines for action in bylaw #9271 Code of Ethics. The Board as a body, and the members individually, wish at all times to avoid attitudes and actions that might give rise to public questioning of the integrity of any Board decision.
For the purpose of this bylaw, family member shall be defined as grandparent, parent, spouse, child, grandchild or sibling, whether by blood or marriage.
Therefore, in addition to complying with all statutory requirements:
A. No Board member shall hold any form of paid employment with the district while he/she is serving, nor for six months after leaving.
B. No Board member shall participate in any way in the appointment, terms and conditions of employment, performance evaluation of or promotion of his/her family member.
C. No Board member shall discuss or vote on a proposed collective bargaining agreement with a bargaining unit; participate in any way as a member of the negotiating team; be present in closed session when the Board is discussing negotiation strategies nor participate in negotiations in any way when his/her family member belongs to that bargaining unit.
D. No Board member shall discuss or vote on a proposed collective bargaining agreement with a bargaining unit; participate in any way as a member of the negotiating team; be present in closed session when the Board is discussing
negotiation strategies nor participate in negotiations in any way, when he/she or a member of his/her family belongs to the same statewide general union with which the school Board is negotiating.
E. No Board member shall use, attempt to use, or allow to be used any property owned or leased by the school district for the purpose of securing financial gain for the Board member, a family member, a political organization, or a business in which the Board member or a family member has an interest or which employs or provides compensation to the Board member or family member.
F. No Board member shall use, attempt to use, or allow to be used his/her position for the purpose of securing financial gain for the Board member, a family member, a political organization, or a business in which the Board member or a family member has an interest or which employs or provides compensation to the Board member or family member.
G. No Board member shall use, attempt to use, or allow to be used any information which is not generally available to the public, and which the Board member acquired by reason of his/her position, for the purpose of securing financial gain for the Board member, family member, a political organization, or a business in which the Board member or a family member has a interest or which employs or provides compensation to the Board member or family member.
H. No Board member shall solicit, accept or agree to accept, either directly or indirectly, any gift, loan, political contribution, service, promise of future employment, or other thing of value if the Board member knows or reasonably should know that the gift, loan, political contribution, service, promise of future employment, or other thing of value was given or offered for the purpose of influencing the Board member, directly or indirectly, in the discharge of his/her duties.
I. No Board member shall direct or request that any person or business which is a party of a contract with the district perform, whether for compensation or not, any services for, or contribute anything of value to a political organization.
J. No Board member shall use his/her position to direct or request that any other school official or any person employed by the district perform any services, whether for compensation or not, for, or contribute anything of value to a political organization.
K. No Board member shall participate in any way in district action which he/she knows or reasonably should know would result in the payment of district funds, from whatever source derived, to the Board member, family member, a political organization, or a business in which the Board member or family member has an interest or which employs or provides compensation to the Board member or family member.
L. Nothing in this bylaw shall be construed to prohibit a Board member from taking action in an official capacity if by reason of that action no benefit or detriment could reasonably be expected to accrue to the Board member or a family member as a member of a group to any greater extent than any such benefit or detriment could reasonably be expected to accrue to any other member of such group.
M. No Board member shall serve as Township Manager or as a member of the municipal governing body of the district.
First Reading: December 12, 2000
Adopted: December 19, 2000