The Board of Education shall appoint a Superintendent of schools pursuant to a contract and such assistant administrators as the Board may determine to be necessary for such terms and at such salaries as the Board and the Superintendent may agree upon for the purpose of administering the affairs of the Cherry Creek School District.
The Superintendent shall sign on behalf of the Board such documents as may be authorized on behalf of the District by the Board.
The Superintendent shall observe rules of conduct established in law which specify that a school employee shall not:
- Disclose or use confidential information acquired in the course of his employment to further substantially his personal financial interests.
- Accept a gift of substantial value or substantial economic benefit tantamount to a gift of substantial value which would tend to improperly influence a reasonable person in his position or which he knows or should know is primarily for the purpose of rewarding him for action taken in which he exercised discretionary authority.
- Engage in a substantial financial transaction for his private business purposes with a person whom he supervises.
- Perform any action in which he has discretionary authority which directly and substantially confers an economic benefit on a business or other undertaking in which he has a substantial financial interest or in which he is engaged as a counsel, consultant, representative or agent.
- An occasional non-pecuniary gift which is insignificant in value.
- A non-pecuniary award publicly presented by a nonprofit organization in recognition of public service.
- Payment or reimbursement for actual and necessary expenditures for travel and subsistence for attendance at a convention or other meeting at which he is scheduled to participate.
- Reimbursement for or acceptance of an opportunity to participate in a social function or meeting which is not extraordinary when viewed in light of his position.
- Items of perishable or nonpermanent value including but not limited to meals, lodging, travel expenses or tickets to sporting, recreational, educational or cultural events.
- Payment for speeches, debates or other public events reported as honorariums.
- Use school facilities and equipment to communicate or correspond with constituents, family members or business associates on an occasional basis.
- Accept or receive a benefit as an indirect consequence of transacting school district business.