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Directors who are dissatisfied with the way MEA has
operated over the past 14 years gained control of the Board with the
election of Janet Kincaid in 2008. The new MEA Board Majority now
consists of two retired educators, a retired civil servant, the operator
of a small hotel and restaurant and a flying instructor.
In just Five months:
- Although lacking business experience, the Board has inserted itself
into the overall management of an electric utility with an annual budget of more than $100 million.
- The new Board Majority has ignored the Cooperative’s Bylaws and the
State Open Meetings Law.
- The new Board Majority has hired its own Attorney and ordered the
cooperative’s Senior Counsel to not advise the Board in any manner.
- The Board President introduced the Resolution giving the Board control
over management at the last minute, without notice.
- The Board Attorney drew up the above Resolution without having been
given a Task Order by the Board despite that requirement being stated in
his contract.
- The Board President called a special meeting to convene less than 24
hours later, without notice to the public as required in State Open
Meeting laws.
- The Board appointed a person to fill a vacancy in violation of the
Bylaws and the Board’s own Standing Rules.
- The Board has made “Sweetheart Deals” in questionable hiring of
consultants.
Is this the kind of “Transparency” Janet Kincaid and Peter Burchell
promised last year when they ran on a platform of “Change?”
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