School Connected Organizations April 27, 2016

School-Connected Organizations (BP 1230) The Governing Board recognizes that parents/guardians may wish to organize clubs for the purpose of supporting the educational program and/or extracurricular programs such as athletic teams, debate teams, and musical groups. The Board supports such activities and welcomes parental interest and participation. Parent/guardian clubs shall be especially careful not to seek advantages for the activities they support if those advantages might be detrimental to the entire school program. The Board requires parent/guardian clubs to have a written statement of purpose and bylaws. The Board recognizes that these organizations are independent of the school or district. In order to protect the district and students, the Superintendent or designee may establish appropriate controls for the relationship between such organizations and the district.

School-Connected Organizations (BP 1230) 1. Activities of the booster club must conform to school and district regulations and must be supportive of the school program involved. 2. The club must have a written statement of purpose and organizational control and procedures (e.g., constitution and bylaws) approved by the principal. 3. With the approval of and attendance by the employee involved, the club may meet in the school room assigned to the employee in charge of the supported program, but the use of any other facility requires approval through a district Civic Center application. 4. Fund-raising activities designed to involve participation of the general student body, or conducted on school premises when students are present for the daily schedule, must have approval of the ASB cabinet and the principal. 5. Fund-raising activities not involving the general student body must be approved by the involved employee and the principal. Lotteries and other activities construed as illegal gambling are prohibitied.

School-Connected Organizations (BP 1230) 6. Assets acquired through booster club fund-raising must be properly accounted for and must be deposited promptly in the name of the booster club in a local bank or savings institution, unless the activity has been approved by the ASB cabinet for deposit in an ASB trust fund, which also requires prompt deposit. The district is not liable for the assets or obligations of any booster club. 7. Booster clubs and booster club officers may not obligate the ASB or the school in any financial way. Booster club officers and members may obligate the club only in the specific manner authorized in the club’s written rules. 8. Promoting, advertising, selling, or giving information about booster club activities on the school premises or through school bulletins must have approval of the ASB cabinet and the principal. 9. Individual students or staff may assist a booster club in its activities, providing the assistance occurs during noninstructional time. 10. A group of parents/guardians failing to follow the regulations required of booster clubs, or a group unwilling to follow such regulations, shall not be approved by the principal for operation as a booster club. Such a group then must function as any other non-school-connected group and would be subject to Civic Center application and regulation for use of school facilities.