The CLARB Board of Directors is responsible for setting organizational direction, allocating adequate resources to achieve its goals, and ensuring sufficient progress is being made. The board exercises fiduciary responsibility of the organization’s resources and establishes strategy and policy. Key responsibilities include:
Set direction
- Establish organizational goals, priorities, strategies and annual work plans in partnership with staff.
- Ensure governance policies are consistent with best practices and current legal standards, and are supportive of the organization’s core purpose, values and goals.
Ensure resources
- Consider issues of capacity (financial and human resources), core competencies and strategic position when making decisions.
- Establish budgets that provide adequate resources to accomplish goals.
Provide oversight
- Monitor performance relative to established plans, goals, and budgets.
- Delegate authority with appropriate oversight.
- Model and promote organizational values and brand.
Internal relationships
- Get to know fellow board members.
- Communicate questions and concerns to the president (for governance issues or to executive director for staff issues).
- Encourage and appreciate volunteers.
External relationships
- Champion CLARB, our programs, services and initiatives to all stakeholders.
- Encourage cooperation among all landscape architectural organizations.
- Act as an ambassador for board-approved decisions and actions.
Prepare & participate
- Understand and consider CLARB’s bylaws and other key governance policies when making decisions.
- Prepare for, attend and actively participate in all board of directors meetings.
- Implement board decisions in an effective and timely manner.
- Serve on committees or task forces as assigned.
- Avoid any decisions, actions or associations that are or could appear to be conflicts of interest.
