In my personal opinion and recollection, two of the points raised above are on-target:
1) Several staff, including myself, explicitly sought out Board members whom they did not view as a directly loyal conduit to Lila, precisely because they feared retribution from them/her.
2) The whistleblower policy was indeed insufficient because even very serious ethical complaints raised did not rise to the level of strict illegality.
We can do better.
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@gmail.com wrote:
- The whistleblower policy was indeed insufficient because even very
serious ethical complaints raised did not rise to the level of strict illegality.
without referring to issues in the past, I think that a constructive way to improve our governance would be to consider how our policies (including the whistleblower policy) are adequate for all possible scenarios organizations of our size and type may encounter.
One of the things that I personally would definitely like to discuss and consider would be the staff liaison to the Board, present at the Board meetings to some extent.
best,
dj
("pundit", current trustee)
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