Preston County Board of Education
Policy 1-5 - Authority of Members

Board members shall have authority only when acting as a board officially in session or when the board specifically delegates a temporary assignment to an individual member. The board shall not be bound by any statement or action by any individual board member except when the statement or action is pursuant to specific instruction or policies of the board.

The board shall have the authority, under provisions of the law:

(1) To control and manage all of the schools and school interests for all school activities and upon all school property, whether owned or leased by the county, including the authority to require that records be kept of all receipts and disbursements of all funds collected or received by any principal, teacher, student, or any other person in connection therewith, any programs, activities or other endeavors of any nature operated or carried on by or in the name of the school, to audit such records and to conserve such funds, which shall be deemed quasipublic moneys, including security surety bonds by expenditure of board moneys;

(2) To establish appropriate schools;

(3) To close any schools which is unnecessary and to assign the pupils to other schools;

(4) To consolidate schools;

(5) To provide transportation;

(6) To provide at public expense appropriate insurance;

(7) To employ and provide inservice training;

(8) To employ legal counsel;

(9) To provide appropriate uniforms for school service personnel;

(10) To provide at public expense the reimbursement of traveling expenses;

(11) To allow or disallow employees to use publicly provided carriage to travel from their residences to their work place and return;

(12) Any other power prescribed by law.

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