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A special meeting of the Local Council of Women board has been called to consider sanctioning LCW board member Chris Holly for bringing to member and public attention circumstances surrounding the June 16 special membership meeting and vote (his report available to the left, Under "Documents...Web Sites"). Chris is a law student who is to take the bar exam this summer. When first calling the meeting, LCW President Susan Wier's resolution suggested the possibility that the board might apply sanctions aimed at preventing his admission to the Indiana bar:
"To review board member's, Mr. Chris Holly, recent actions before, at, and after the June 16, 2008 membership meeting to determine if such actions constitute grounds for a vote of "no confidence," written LCW board reprimand, immediate removal as a LCW board member, or "for cause" pursuant to LCW bylaws and specifically Section 5.9 of the LCW bylaws, or other legal grounds, and if Mr. Holly should be immediately be removed from the LCW Board, sanctioned pursuant to LCW Bylaws, or if further sanction should be sought legally or professionally." [LCW bylaws may be downloaded from the link on this blog]
After word got around about what the board was planning to do, Wier backed off a bit and changed the resolution to considering only Section 5.9 of LCW bylaws, which state that a director may be removed for missing three or more meetings or for breaking the corporate, civil, corporate or criminal laws. Because LCW board meetings fell last semester on a day and at a time when Mr. Holly had a required law class, he has missed three meetings. This may be used as grounds to remove him from the board. However, because the original resolution mentioned sanctions due to his actions relating to the June 16 meeting, removing him because he missed some meetings should be seen as pretext.
All LCW MEMBERS MAY ATTEND THIS MEETING -- According to LCW bylaws, members "may attend all meetings of the Corporation, pose questions, join in all discussions and vote". If you can attend, please call or email LCW President Susan Wier to tell her you are coming so that there will be adequate space.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND? -- We need to send a strong message to the LCW board that we want the LCW to return to being an open and democratic organization that communicates with its members and the public about health care in our area. If members do not show up to support Chris and say to the board "Have You No Decency?", the board will continue to act as if the LCW board will continue to act as if their primary constituency is Bloomington Hospital rather than the people served by the hospital.
If you can't come but would like to express your opinion about this, here are the names and contact information for LCW board members:
Sandy Britton, Treasurer sbritton@indiana.edu
Chris Holly cjholly@medicaidguide.comDebbie Hrisomalos, Secretary dhrisomalos@aol.com 339-3826
Lance D Like 323-8300
Nancy Lumbley nlumbley@insightbb.com 339-6467
Ellie Rogers, Vice President kenroger@indiana.edu 339-7741
Sue Wheeler wheeler.sue@comcast.net
Susan Wier, President swier@1stamericantrust.com 824-7760
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