{"id":1265,"date":"2025-11-25T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spagr2.diocesanweb.org\/?page_id=1217"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:35:16","slug":"school-board-committees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spagr.alphonsus.diocesanweb.org\/school\/school-board-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Board of Directors primary concern is the ministry of the Catholic elementary school education:  the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development of the students.  The Board conforms to the policies of the Diocese of Grand Rapids.  Board responsibilities include:  <\/strong>Strategic planning, Formation of local policies, Evaluation, Oversight of financial operations, participation in advancement, and mission effectiveness.  9 standing committee\u2019s:  Executive, Mission Effectiveness Committee, Committee on Directors, Policy and Planning, Finance, Building and Grounds, Development, Marketing, Communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any parishioner is welcome to serve on one or more committees, even those without children attending St. Paul School.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>Provide overall board leadership and coordination of board functions and responsibilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Responsibility:\u00a0<\/strong>Meeting agendas, board calendar. Support principal, leaders of the board, support orientation and training of new board members, annual board evaluation, be sure all ad hoc committee\u2019s have charges.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Mission Effectiveness Committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>To ensure publically and internally the school maintains and enhances the catholic identity to carry out our mission.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Responsibility:\u00a0<\/strong>Work with administration to assist in development policy, strategic planning and board training in mission effectiveness.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Committee on Directors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>Identify qualified new board members and ensure all boards understands their responsibilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Responsibility:\u00a0<\/strong>New board member recruitment as well as work with administration in providing training, evaluating and orienting all board members.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Planning and Policy Committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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        1. Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>Be sure that the school has current policies and maintains a strategic plan that has clear measurable objectives that sustains and grows the school.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Responsibility:\u00a0<\/strong>Assist in the development and monitor, with the administration, the strategic plan and its goals and objectives.\u00a0 Review and monitor all school policies with the administration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Building and Grounds Committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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          1. Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>Be sure the facility and its grounds are maintained to its best safe use of all occupants<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. Responsibility:\u00a0<\/strong>Develop and monitor with administration the long-term facility maintenance, capital improvements, security, space utilization for enrollment goals and emergency management plans for the school.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            Finance Committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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            1. Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>Assure the long rang financial plans and current budget are followed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            2. Responsibility:\u00a0<\/strong>monitor the current budge and develop next year budget, prepare and monitor long range finance plans, oversee policy and planning of business operations of the school.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

              Development, Marketing and Communications Committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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              1. Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>To develop and cultivate donors and alumni, ensure proper internal and external communications to the community\u00a0and promote a positive image of the school to promote enrollment growth<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Board of Directors primary concern is the ministry of the Catholic elementary school education:  the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development of the students.  The Board conforms to the policies of the Diocese of Grand Rapids.  Board responsibilities include:  Strategic planning, Formation of local policies, Evaluation, Oversight of financial...","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spagr.alphonsus.diocesanweb.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spagr.alphonsus.diocesanweb.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spagr.alphonsus.diocesanweb.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spagr.alphonsus.diocesanweb.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spagr.alphonsus.diocesanweb.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spagr.alphonsus.diocesanweb.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spagr.alphonsus.diocesanweb.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}