Board of Directors
Our Board is composed of at minimum 4 directors who are typically parents of swimmers on the team that also serve as officials. The Board of Directors meets together on a monthly basis to discuss issues related to our team as well as ensure that we are supporting our teams Mission, Vision and Strategic Direction.
The LSAC board manages the budget of the team while building relationships with the community. Board members support the Head Coach by helping manage the day-to-day business of the organization. Board members also provide fiduciary oversight establishing and monitoring the annual budget. Board meeting are held once a month and are open to current Lone Star members.
Board Roles and Responsibilities
The Lone Star Board members will commit themselves to ethical, professional, and lawful conduct. This includes proper use of authority and appropriate decorum when acting as Board members.
General Expectations
1. Know the club’s mission, purposes, goals, policies, programs, services, strengths, and needs.
2. Suggest nominees for the leadership roles.
3. Serve in leadership positions or undertake special assignments.
4. Avoid prejudiced judgments on the on the basis of information received from individuals.
5. Urge those with grievances to follow established policies and procedures through their supervisors.
Code of Conduct
1. Board members must demonstrate loyalty to the interests of the entire team, unconflicted by loyalties to segments of the ownership, staff, other organizations, or any personal interests as a consumer of the organization’s services.
2. Board members are accountable for discharging their duties honestly and in good faith. Board members shall exercise the degree of care, diligence and skill that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances.
3. Board members must avoid conflict of interest with respect to their fiduciary responsibility.
4. There must be no self-dealing or any conduct of private business or personal services between any Board member and the organization. (or. except as procedurally controlled to assure openness, competitive opportunity, and equal access to inside information.)
5. When the Board is to decide upon an issue about which a member has a conflict of interest, that member shall disclose the conflict to the Board and absent herself or himself without comment from not only the vote but also from the deliberation.
6. Board members must not attempt to exercise individual authority over the organization.
7. Board members’ interaction with the Head Coach or staff must recognize the lack of authority vested in individuals except when explicitly Board authorized.
8. Board members’ interaction with public, media or other entities must recognize this limitation and that Board members are not to speak for the HC, or to speak for the Board except to repeat explicitly stated Board decisions.
9. Except for participation in Board deliberation about whether the HC has achieved any reasonable interpretation of Board policies, Board members will not publicly express individual judgments of performance of employees or the HC.
10. A Board member aware of credible information that suggests that a Board policy has been violated, by either the Board or the HC, has an affirmative obligation to bring the concern to the Board’s agenda for monitoring.
11. Board members must respect the confidentiality appropriate to issues of a sensitive nature.
12. Board members will support the legitimacy and authority of the final determination of the Board on any matter, irrespective of the member’s personal position on the issue.
