Ratification of Expense Reimbursement and Discount Policy

[NavinR.Johnson]

Phokaioglaukos wrote:

Betsi Lyle, a longstanding member of the Club, raised a concern at the September member meeting that the adoption by the Board of the Expense Reimbursement and Discount Policy at the September Board meeting may have been flawed because the Policy granted discounts for DE events to all members of the Board. The Club’s Conflict of Interest Policy requires a Board member with a conflict to abstain from voting to approve the conflicting transaction or arrangment. When the Board approved the Expense Reimbursement and Discount Policy no members abstained and all would be eligible to benefit from the DE discount. To address this concern, the Board ratified and confirmed the Expense Reimbursement and Discount Policy at its meeting last night by a unanimous vote of only those members of the Board who voluntarily
gave up any discount for DE events as an Officer. All members of the Board who remain eligible for the Officer discount abstained.

You and the remainder of the board who are instructors are in violation of the club's Conflict of Interest Policy. Even though you are declining your Executive Board discount, you have still voted for a policy that includes a discount for instructors of which group you are a member of. As a beneficary of this discount, according to the COIP you and all members of the board are in-fact ineligible to vote for such discount policy, unless you declare oneself inelligible for said discount. Have you and the other board members who did not abstain for this vote declined benefits of said policy?

What law school did you attend?

Power to the people and my special purpose!