Policy governance indoctrination continues for new Board members
Community College District Governing Board Chair Pat McCarver and Board member Ray Sigafoos attended the International Policy Governance Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada on June 18 – 20, 2015. Both are disciples of this method of controlling an elected representative governing board. This model of governance provides the West side of the County with effective control over Verde Valley elected representatives in terms of their ability to exercise free speech when publicly discussing Board actions with their constituents. This is especially true when it comes to the unfair treatment Verde Valley taxpayers have suffered at the hands of the West side of the County. Both McCarver and Sigafoos have been leaders in seeing to it that Community College economic development takes place on the West side of the County rather than the East side.
During their trip to Vancouver, they also apparently signed up Richard Stringham, Senior Associate, The Governance Coach, to assist with further indoctrination of the three newest Board members into the Governance Model at the retreat to be held Monday, August 31. Click here to go to retreat agenda.
This will be Mr. Stringham’s second trip to the College. He was here on August 27, 2010 where he facilitated a Board discussion on facilitating policy governance. Click here to see the 2010 agenda
Mr. Stringham is employed by a group called “The Governance Coach Team.” Its website states that Stringham was “Personally trained in the theory and implementation of Policy Governance, by John and Miriam Carver at the Policy Governance Academy” and is a “Coach to boards in implementing Policy Governance.” Click here to see the Governance Coach Team website. He has Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Professional Agrologist, Alberta Institute of Agrologists.
February indoctrination. Indoctrination for the three new Board members into this policy governance model began on February 3, 2015 when then chair Ray Sigafoos invited Stacy Sjogren, principal consultant, Out of the Woods Consulting, to conduct the retreat and to meet individually with Deb McCasland and Steve Irwin the day before the retreat to explain (indoctrinate) them into the Policy Governance model. Board minutes of the retreat can be accessed by clicking here. Sigafoos had run across Sjogren while attending an International Policy Governance Conference in Minneapolis. The Out of Woods website can be accessed by clicking here.