Other responsibilities

The Board has other important responsibilities to fulfill. These include ensuring that APLE has enough financial resources to carry out its mission, protecting its assets and providing financial oversight, building a competent Board, ensuring legal and ethical integrity, and enhancing the organization's public standing. To accomplish these tasks, the Board must help develop the annual budget, establish financial controls, evaluate their own performance, determine qualifications for candidates, orient new Board members, and present APLE's mission, accomplishments, and goals to the public to gain support from the government and community.