Please fill this out to the best of your ability. You will be ranking how the board HAS been functioning in the past. However, you can keep in mind the tools that the board has put in to place to ensure its functioning for the future as well.

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* 1. Director, please give us your name.

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* 2. C5 Directors commit to ethical, professional, and lawful conduct.

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* 3. C5.1 Board Directors are required to sign a Statement of Agreement that includes three sections: Code of Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Conflict of Interest Disclosure.

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* 4. C5.2 Every Director is responsible at all times for acting in good faith, in a manner which she/he reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the Cooperative, and with such care as an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use under similar circumstances.

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* 5. C5.3 Directors must demonstrate unconflicted loyalty to the interests of the Cooperative's members, as a whole. This accountability supersedes any conflicting loyalty such as that to advocacy or interest groups, membership on other Boards or staffs, and the personal interest of any Director acting as - or on behalf of - an individual member.

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* 6. C5.3.a All Directors have a duty to disclose, in writing, any potential or perceived conflict of interest and must provide all material facts to the Board of Directors. The Board shall determine the process for participation by the Director.

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* 7. C5.3.b There will be no self-dealing or any conduct of private business or personal services between any Director and the Cooperative except as procedurally controlled to assure openness, competitive opportunity and equal access to "inside" information.

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* 8. C5.3.c When the Board is to decide on an issue about which a Director cannot reasonably be expected to prioritize the interest of the Co-op, that Director shall recuse him/herself from the discussion and the vote.

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* 9. C5.3.d A Director who applies for full-time employment at ICC must first resign from the Board.

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* 10. C5.3.e Any Director who receives remuneration for service on the ICC Board of Directors, including reduction in the standard charge for room and board, has the same duties and responsibilities as any other Director and has the additional duty of clearly segregating their self-interest from their Board responsibilities.

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* 11. C5.4 Directors may not attempt to exercise individual authority over the organization.

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* 12. C5.4.a When interacting with the Executive Director or employees, Directors must carefully and openly recognize their lack of authority.

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* 13. C5.4.b When interacting with the public, the press, or other entities, Directors must recognize the same limitation and the inability of any Director to speak for the Board except to repeat explicitly stated Board decisions.

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* 14. C5.5 Directors will respect the confidentiality appropriate to issues of a sensitive nature and must continue to honor confidentiality after leaving Board service.

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* 15. C5.6 Directors will prepare for and attend all Board meetings and trainings.

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* 16. C5.7 Directors will support the legitimacy and authority of the Board's decision on any matter, irrespective of the Director's personal position on the issue.

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* 17. C5.8 Any Director who does not follow the code of conduct policy can be removed from the Board by a majority vote of the remaining Board.

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* 18. C5.9 The Board will report adherence to this policy at the General Membership Meeting.

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* 19. Do you have any comments or thoughts about our performance relative to this policy? What can we do to get better?

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* 20. "Is this the policy we want?" If not, do you have any comments or suggestions on potential revisions to this policy?

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* 21. Other comments

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