How are we going to address this in the future? We will basically start asking that.
If the Board of Trustees was entirely elected by the community would solve the background check problem, even if those elections remain technically just nominations which the sitting board can approve or reject on a case-by-case basis.
The present procedures are antidemocratic and, as we have seen, are easily subject to abuse by large entities.
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