As some of you may remember, I was the only trustee who voted against James' removal except himself.
Nevertheless, I still believe that any functioning body as our Board has to have the right to expel a person, whom they feel like not being able to work with.
If a majority of my fellow Board members cannot stand me for whatever reason (including the ones I'd find absurd), that's pretty much it. The Board has to be able to function with trust, delegation, and a certain rapport.
As long as such cases are really very rare, I don't think there needs to be much change from our process. Practically, I don't see how the community could be involved - after all, if a majority of some Board just cannot stand a person or there is a generalized mistrust, there is not much that external insight will change.
However, we need a better process for dealing with vacant community seats for sure. Also, I think it would be fair to always give written reasons to removed members (also to discipline the reasoning of the Board that makes such a drastic decision). About "for cause" or not, I have no opinion, as it is the American legalese I am not and will not be fully proficient in.
Dariusz 08.05.2016 3:02 PM "James Heilman" jmh649@gmail.com napisał(a):
I agree there needs to be a way to remove trustees, but IMO for community elected trustees there needs to be community involvement in the process. Also the ability to remove trustees "without cause" should be rescinded.
J
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com
wrote:
Second, the Board needs to resolve never to remove a community trustee except by a successful recall referendum to the community. The Board
should
never, under any circumstances, remove a community trustee without
consent
of the community that elected them.
Are you sure about this?
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the situation with James, I think it's
a
hostage to fortune.
If there were a seriously dysfunctional trustee in future then this would amplify the damage they could do quite a bit, by making them unsackable.
Regards,
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