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(a)gmail.com> napisaĆ(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Also the ability to remove trustees "without cause" should be rescinded.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(a)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,
> Chris
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