"CYA" Agreement??

It looks like Dr K and the Board of Health are in the news again and it looks to me like it might be one of those "cover your ass" type scenarios. It seems they have a settlement agreement signed by Dr K so he could receive his $63,000 taxpayer gift, they publicly accepted it Monday and voted to include it as part of their board minutes from a Nov 22 meeting.

I'm no rocket scientist but I do get a burr up my butt every now and then when people appointed to be stewards of the taxpayers money can give it away like this in secrecy and try to scam the taxpayers and keep it a secret. I did a google on what meeting minutes were and the laws for minutes and this is what came back:
They must be accurate and reflect what was actually said----must be actionable (clearly
state agreed action) and selective (only the important things should be noted and not all
the fluff in between) --- to formally record vital information.
If this agreement was accurate, important, vital information, and reflected what was actually said, why wasn't it already in the minutes of the meeting and why did you have to come back a month and a half later and vote to include it as part of the board minutes of a meeting where he tendered his resignation. I would think that is vital information and that is why I think this is just a "cover your ass" move. I don't think the settlement agreement ever came about until all this became public and all the bad publicity.

According to last weeks Rhino that may be the case.

The legality of this whole deal is now in question as it is believed now that it was never voted on by the Health Board. According to one Health Board member there was never a vote in closed session. According to the media there was no open session public vote outside the purview of the press. Any way the agreement was signed putting the taxpayers on the hook for the $63,000.

Or are they??

Public officials in North Carolina who give away government assets face personal liability for those assets.

Since this agreement was signed without a vote of the board the person that signed the agreement is personally liable for the money paid out and also the cost of any benefits paid out. Personally if the person that signed the agreement is held responsible, I think they all should be just because of the cavalier, in your face, we don't have to tell you shit about what we do with your money attitude that these people have. It would do my heart good to see 'em all have to keep up 'ole Dr. K for six mos.

Now I see the News & Record wanting to blast Steve Arnold for wanting to remove these board members saying it might cause more "problems" than it "solves". I sure don't see how the hell that could happen. We got a truckload of problems now.

They also say that Arnold and his fellow commissioners ought to ask tough questions about the Krishnaraj matter. But they should do so with an eye toward a resolution, not a revolution.

I agree the commissionersought to ask tough questions, with the exception of Bruce Davis.(Him being on the Health Board he is part of the problem)

But it may take a revolution to get a resoulution.