BOARD MINUTES; MOUNTAINS BEGIN AS MOLE HILLS

Have certain people been blessed with reviewing our Board minutes ahead of our Directors? Are these same people being allowed to edit our minutes in lieu of our directors? One would think so by the self-assured answers Director Burke gave to our Board members when a small change with our August 27th minutes was requested. Director Dodson wanted these minutes to correctly reflect there was indeed a response given to a question she asked of invalid recall leader Reta Priest. Director Burke within seconds of this request initiated her rebuttal with stating that Priest’s had said she denied that.

Odd to why Reta Priest would wish to deny something that our Village minutes had clearly agreed with her on.

Prior to this meeting, the minute correction procedures I've witnessed was those on the Board who made a statement or who asked a particular question were the ones to point out the discrepancies that needed to be corrected.. Now it appears we may have outside entities being allowed to influence the validity of our Board minutes.

It’s also peculiar as to why our Director Burke seems so emphatic at defending this questionable denial. She was ranting about the legitimacy of a tape recording taken at this meeting followed by repeatedly asking was Mary, our minute’s recorder, facing Reta Priest when recording her statement so as to know for sure it was her speaking. For that matter should it be asked once more in order to get an answer this time as to which directors were bothering and making life so stressful for our ex-minute writer Mary?

Director Burke also said if our Board does this corrective measure, our Village should be concerned about the possibilities of later issues. That statement would be construe that legal action might be taken against our Village.

Not unusual was why Director Burke seemed so determined to keep the minutes as is and have it noted a director disputes this sentence. Director Burke should know that any later reference to these minutes must ultimately conclude that all statements in the board’s minutes are looked upon as being true, even ones with a director disputing it, when such is approved by the majority the BOD.

In the meeting it appeared that most of the Directors expressed that they recalled Priest giving a response. Even our Board President said he was looking right at Reta Priest after the question was asked and said he saw her mouth say yes to the question.

It will be interesting to see if Director Mulch will hand over as requested by the Board, the tape recording of the meeting and the original transcript done in Mary’s hand writing.

What are your feelings?