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SAMPLE BOARD POLICY <br /> CENTRAL STATES UTILITIES - BOARD POLICY <br /> Category: DELEGATION TO Title: INFORMATION & SUPPORT TO THE BOARD <br /> DM MANAGEMENT <br /> Page 1 of 2 <br /> Date of Adoption: Policy Number: DM — 1.2 <br /> Purpose & Summary: With this policy, the Board communicates its expectations for <br /> information and support from the General Manager. <br /> Policy: The General Manager shall not permit the Board to be uninformed or unsupported in <br /> its work. <br /> Consistent with this general statement, the General Manager shall not fail to: <br /> 1. Inform the Board in a timely manner about CSU's significant successes or shortcomings <br /> with respect to Board policies, goals and other directives. <br /> 2. Submit timely, accurate, and understandable financial, operating and other monitoring <br /> data required by the Board in a form that directly relates to the provisions of the Board <br /> policies being monitored. (See Policy BMC - 1.4 Monitoring Performance of the General <br /> Manager) <br /> 3. Report in a timely manner any actual or anticipated instance of management <br /> noncompliance with Board policies. Inform the Board about significant events and <br /> situations that are directly relevant to the Board's policies, especially any changes which <br /> may materially alter assumptions that the Board has used previously to establish policy <br /> and make other significant decisions. <br /> 4. Advise the Board if, in the General Manager's opinion, the Board is not in compliance <br /> with its own policies on Governance (G Series Policies) and Board-Management <br /> Connection (CMC Series Policies), especially where Board actions or behavior <br /> (individual or collective) is detrimental to the working relationship between the Board and <br /> the General Manager. <br /> 5. Advise the Board if, in the General Manager's opinion, the Board is unfocused in its work <br /> or out of step with CSU's strategic framework (vision, core purpose, core values, mission <br /> and strategic objectives). <br /> 6. Bring before the Board in a timely manner as many internal and external points of view, <br /> issues and alternatives as the Board may need to deliberate and make fully informed <br /> decisions. <br /> 7. Bring to the Board, in support of the Board's deliberations and decision-making, the <br /> recommendation(s) of management, the rationale for those recommendations, and the <br /> process(es) by which those recommendations were developed. <br /> 0. <br /> _t <br /> ©2016 Collaboration Unlimited <br />