BYLAWS AND POLICIES | Policy Manual | Jefferson, School District of

0131.1 - BYLAWS AND POLICIES

The Board shall adopt bylaws and policies for the organization and operation of this Board. Such policies are to include those needed to meet the education standards established by Wisconsin Statute. In the event of any conflict between these bylaws and policies and any applicable law or regulation, including temporary emergency orders or mandates, the legal authority shall prevail.

Those bylaws and policies which are not dictated by the statutes or rules of the Department of Public Instruction or ordered by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction or a court of competent authority may be adopted, amended, and repealed at any meeting of the Board, provided the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal shall have been proposed at a previous Board meeting and, once proposed, shall have remained on the agenda of each succeeding Board meeting until approved or rejected.

When compelling reasons exist for an immediate revision, the Board may adopt, amend, or suspend any bylaw or policy, provided the amendment, adoption, or suspension does not conflict with law. Any such emergency resolution adopting, amending, or suspending a bylaw or policy under this provision shall expire automatically at the next public meeting of the Board unless the Board moves to adopt the resolution in final form at that subsequent meeting.

Bylaws and policies shall be adopted, amended, repealed, or suspended by a majority vote of the Board.

The Board may adopt, amend, or repeal rules of order for its own operation by simple resolution of the Board passed by a majority of those present and voting.

The adoption, modification, repeal, or suspension of a Board bylaw or policy shall be recorded in the minutes of the Board. All bylaws and policies shall be included in the Board policy manual.

The policies developed by the Board and the administrative regulations developed to implement policy are designed to increase the probability of an effective and efficient school district. Consequently, it is assumed that all Board employees and students will willingly carry them out. In an attempt to ensure equitable and just treatment of all, suggestions for changes in, revisions of or additions to existing policies and regulations are welcomed from employees and students.

Persons in supervisory positions are responsible for informing subordinates of existing policies and regulations and for seeing that they are implemented in the spirit intended. Continuous disregard for compliance with Board policy and administrative regulation on the part of an employee may be interpreted as willful neglect of duty and may constitute grounds for dismissal.

Technical Corrections

The District Administrator is authorized to review and make technical corrections to policies that have already been adopted through normal rulemaking procedures. Technical corrections are those corrections to policy language or construction that do not reflect a policy decision or substantive consideration by the Board, such as correction of a typographical or grammatical error, inclusion or correction of a statutory citation, renumbering of sections, combining of policies, or similar actions. The District Administrator shall inform the Board of any such changes no later than the next regular Board meeting.