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Orientation Check List

President- ED Relations

  1. Preliminaries: Weekly-Biweekly Meeting Times must be established. First Meeting should be held with President Nominee before annual Meeting to inform President to be of tradition of having a Board meeting Immediately after annual meeting to appoint Executive Committee- there after meetings can be face to face, skype, telephone or combination
  2. Board Orientation Manual (Location and Updates)
  3. Discussions of Personal Goals of President with ED
  4. Key Duties of President specified in Association bylaws Section, 5.3.1
    1. represent the Association in the community;
    2. preside at all General Meetings of the Membership and act as Chairperson of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee;
    3. exercise general supervision over all Association activities in accordance with policies determined by the Board of Directors;
    4. be a member ex officio of all committees.
  5. Provide Board Leadership in terms of Education, Policy Development, Fund Raising, Public Relations
  6. Mission and Goals of KACL
    1. Mission Statement (and History)
    2. Fundamentally Important Goals :
      1. Social Inclusion
      2. Justice-Equality
      3. Membership Development
      4. Permanent Endowment
    3. Long-Term Goals (History)
    4. Service Delivery Principles (History)
  7. Legal Status, Charitable Status and Governance
    1. Ontario Corporation Act
    2. Letters Patent
    3. Bylaws A Legal Document authorized under Corporation's Act
    4. Board Process
    5. Board -Executive Relation
  8. Funders
    1. Ministry of Community and Social Services MCSS (Including Special Accommodations)
    2. Minsitry of Heatlth MOH-LHIN
    3. Education
    4. Grants
  9. Duties of Board Members
    1. To Act honestly and bona fide (in good faith"
    2. must exercise their powers for a proper purpose - see also conflicts of interest.
    3. Avoid or report "Conflict of duty and interest" immediately.
    4. Use of corporate property, opportunity, or information: Directors must not, without the informed consent of the company, use for their own profit the company's assets, opportunities, or information.
    5. Duty of Care and Due Diligence
  10. Policy Development and Major Policies
    1. Policy Analysis Papers
    2. Policies
    3. Life Sharing Lifesharing Policy Paper
    4. Shared Responsibility Paper
    5. Individual Approache
  11. Risk Management
    1. Succession Planning
    2. Board- Orientation Checklists for Officers- President,Treasurer
    3. Management Job Descriptions, Orientation Checklists, Performance Appraisals
    4. Quality Assurance Committee- A Staff Committee
  12. Social Movement
    1. The Local History of KACL
  13. Provincial Scene:
    1. Community Living Ontario
    2. OASIS
    3. Family Alliance
    4. The Council
  14. Leadership Issues:
    1. Dual Role of Social Movement (AdvocAgency (Government Programs
    2. Governance versus Management: Carver Mode
    3. Board Education
      1. Key Concepts: Social Justice, Prejudice, Equality, Cycle of Socialization, Cycle of Liberation,
      2. CRDP: Convention on the Rights of the Disabled
      3. Ontario and Canadian Human Rights Acts
      4. Accessibility Act
  15. Public Education
    1. Video The R Word
  16. Major Current Issues
    1. Fiscal Funding Issue
    2. Inadequate Funding and Funding Freeze
    3. Picketing of Group Homes
    4. Transformation and Individual Funding
    5. Fiscal Funding Issue
  17. Resources for President
    1. Managing Meeting
    2. Parliamentary Procedure
    3. Being Effective; Seven habits of Highly Effective People