Setting up and Selecting Community College Boards of Trustees-In Part
Article 2.
Local Administration. § 115D-12.
Each institution to have board of trustees; selection of trustees.
(Para (a) left out for clarity)
(b) All trustees shall be residents of the administrative area of the institution for which they are selected or of counties contiguous thereto with the exception of members provided for in subsection (a) of this section, Group Four.
(b1) No person who has been employed full time by the community college within the prior 5 years and no spouse or child of a person currently employed full time by the community college shall serve on the board of trustees of that college.
(c) Vacancies occurring in any group for whatever reason shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by the agency or agencies authorized to select trustees of that group and in the manner in which regular selections are made. Should the selection of a trustee not be made by the agency or agencies having the authority to do so within 60 days after the date on which a vacancy occurs, whether by creation or expiration of a term or for any other reason, the General Assembly shall fill the vacancy by appointment for the remainder of the unexpired term.
Now, let’s get back on track.
The Commissioners, at their June 15, 2021 Commissioners Meeting Reappointed Alan Langley to the CCC BoT and Appointed “John Doe” to the CCC BoT to replace Luke Queen, At Luke Queen’s Request-to cover up his being fired.
Then the General Assembly, directly thru Senator Ted “Milque-Toast” Alexander-motivated by Taliban Trump-Hating Republicans Wes “Loser” Westmoreland, Dennis “Beetle” Bailey, Kevin Whisnant, David Allen and others (Tim Moore and Kelly Hastings) nominated Luke Queen to spite the Commissioners-who the Taliban Republicans considered as fools. And, probably rightly so as the Commissioners continue to allow County Manager Brian Epley to make them look like fools. (Remember the 2021 tax increase??)
Now, the Commissioners, to correct their mistake with John Doe’s appointment and time is running out, appoint philanthropist Betty Carrigan back onto the CCC BoT where the General Assembly had just fired her to make room for Luke Queen. And the CCC BoT Board is back to exactly where it was. Run by the majority-the Trump-Hating Taliban the Commissioners surrendered to.
The Commissioners do all of this surrendering at their July “Work Session” after all these months of pissing off the Carrigan family by putting philanthropist Betty Carrigan into a scandal that was not of her own making. And. pissing off the real Republicans and ordinary citizens of Cleveland County who are sick and tired of a failed education system at both Cleveland County Schools and Cleveland Community College.
And yet, the Commissioners still get it wrong.
The Commissioners, besides being victims of their own staff’s incompetence (most likely treachery), that clearly set them up to look like fools, besides the weasel-like shenanigans of the Taliban Republicans now controlling the CCC BoT Board, the Commissioners have appointed the” wrong” Carrigan to the CCC BoT Board. They should have appointed Betty and Charlie Carrigan’s DAUGHTER, Jane Doe (Name withheld for the moment), to the CCC BoT Board. And here is WHY!
1. Jane is reported to be well read and well educated. With an advanced college degree.
2. Jane is reported to be considering running for Elected Office against the General Assembly Stooge, Ted Milque-Toast
Alexander, in the NC Senate race in2022.
3. The unnecessarily bad and low-down treatment of Jane’s mother, philanthropist Betty Carrigan, by the dirty-dog crooks on
the CCC BoT Board surely has motivated her to expose those crooks. And the best way to do that is to make the CCC BoT
Board follow the law, expose corruption and make decisions that benefit the CCC students and taxpayers. Who can argue
with that kind of motivation? No matter what has awakened that motivation!!
4. As Jane’s parents, Betty and Charlie Carrigan, have been known to generously support political candidates, and they
would be certain to support Jane in such an endeavor. Jane will then be assured of campaign donations aplenty to run a
well-funded and viable campaign against the likes of Ted “Milque-Toast” Alexander and others perhaps in next year’s
election for the North Carolina Senate.
5. Since the American system of government, often forgotten, is that Government does NOT run on TRUST, but by CHECKS AND BALANCES!!!
There are other reasons the Commissioners, taxpayers, citizens and students would benefit by the appointment of Jane Doe to the Cleveland Community College Board of Trustees. Presently a majority group of elitist men who are steeped in the old-time “Good-ole-(white) Boy Cleveland County style and tradition of phony paternalism that hides the fact that they exist for the sole purpose of “Sharing” amongst themselves the “spoils” of crooked “plantation politics” and self-interest. Something that a well-motivated, younger-generation of educated, confident, secure and fearless woman like Jane Doe would be morally and legally bound to “bust-up” with wild abandon. And be proud of the results.
And us concerned citizens could be proud too. All Jane Doe would have to do is re3fuse to serve on any of the CCC “secret” Committees, refuse to accept any of those “secret Committee Reports and demand that all Cleveland Community College “business” be conducted in sessions open to the public with accurate records (minutes) that are kept of those public sessions that fairly and accurately reflect what transpired in those meetings such that a person not present in the meetings but who reads those minutes could understand and follow what happened in that meeting. Folks, neither myself or a Jane Doe do not have to invent those concepts. They are State law. They are called “Open Meeting” laws. All Jane Doe would have to do is follow the law. How much more beautiful does this get? And vote NO on anything that does NOT abide by state law. It is simple as that.
“But Williams,” you might say, “the Commissioners have already appointed philanthropist Betty Carrigan to the CCC BoT at their August, 2021 “Work Session?”