Board Workshop 3/4/2002 - Terrible

One member of the public showed up fo today's board workshop. Look at the "barrier" that was set up to keep him in his cage. That set-up reminded me of Caution-Parker's utterance in the courtyard after a board meeting last fall. Creating a fence to keep the public in its place is exactly that sentiment!

I could not believe what was going on in today's "workshop", which was described as Executive Coaching and Parliamentary Procedures.

Holmes was not there. The one person who NEEDED to be there was not. Manning explained that there had been a death in the family, but he didn't say what Holmes' relationship was to that person. Was the deceased an immediate family member? Or was it the dog's groomer's third cousin, twice removed. Holmes' missed another meeting within the past year of so for a family death, as I recall.

When Liz Guthridge asked questions, too many times board members just sat there without responding. And she let them get away with it.

Why didn't she say, "If you aren't going to be part of this workshop, just get up and leave. And don't collect your pay on the way out the door!"

Ms. Guthridge is a nice person. This board does not need a "nice" person. It needs someone who will dig in and whip them into shape as a Board.

A recent written interchange from Manning to Scott was sent to Guthridge before this workshop, so that she would know exactly what's going on between board members. It was nasty! Maybe the workshop should have started with her reading that aloud and starting from that point.

I gave up at 1:40PM. Had I been there in person, I would have walked out about 1:15PM.

Manning said, "Nobody knows what to trust or whom to trust." Not true! Some Board members aren't finding anything or anybody to trust! That's the problem.

Most of the board members there today sat there like bumps on logs. 

Lindsay Agostini brought up some good points, and the trainer put them on Hold for "later". Sure hope she returns to them.

Not to be sexist about it, but a male trainer was needed. A hard-headed business man. Or a hard-headed business woman, if she met the board head-on.

Richland Two has wasted its money on these two workshops. Wasted the money both on the fee for the trainer and for the pay for the board members!

If you want to know how bad it really was, check it out on livestream.com/richland2 for March 4, 2022.