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3(1) To ensure accountability to its membership and its effectiveness, the Board will emphasize work in specific areas to optimize organizational performance.

(2) The Board will concentrate its efforts on the following areas,

• the link between the organization and the members,
• written governing policies and priorities,
• monitoring and observing the performance of the organization as outlined in policies on Board-GM Relationship.

(3) Policy and priority documents should address,

• (a) the benefits the organization is to achieve, for which people, at what cost,
• (b) constraints on executive authority that establish the boundaries of prudence and ethics within which all executive activity and decisions must take place,
• (c) how the Board conceives, performs, and monitors its own tasks, and,
• (d) how power is delegated and its proper use monitored, the GM role, authority, and accountability.

(4) The Board will be mindful of succession by

• (a) retaining enough experienced directors, while providing opportunity for new directions, and,
• (b) ensuring the director elected as Chair should have experience on the Executive and the most appropriate length of time in the Chair position is two years.

Approved: July 10, 2014

From Part 3 – Governance Process of ABP’s Policy Manual