File: GBEBC
STAFF GIFTS AND SOLICITATIONS
Gifts to Staff Members
MSAD #11 employees shall not accept gifts from students, parents or community members except as such gifts represent tokens or simple remembrances.
The MSAD #11 Board considers as always welcome and, in most cases more appropriate, the writing of letters to employees expressing gratitude or appreciation.
Gifts from One Staff Member to Another
The giving of gifts is a matter of individual discretion. MSAD #11 employees are not to feel obligated to give gifts to personnel who exercise administrative or supervisory jurisdiction over them.
Generally, the collection of money for group gifts shall be discouraged except as bereavement, serious illness or personal tragedy, or as a memento at retirement.
Gifts from Businesses
MSAD #11 employees are prohibited from accepting items of material value from or companies doing business with M.S.A.D. #11 or wishing to do so. Exceptions to this policy are textbooks and instructional resources and minor items which are generally distributed by these companies through their public relations programs.
Adopted: Prior to 1985
Revised: June 5, 1986; July 8, 1993; February 1, 2007