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| Just as 13 is a little more than 12, Baker is trying to cram 10 board members into 9 seats. |
Last week, the Tribal Council approved all of Baker’s nominees for everything, including five new board members for CNB in full council on Monday night, and then five more for four more seats in committee on Friday.
We’ve already discussed the first five, and their varying range of qualifications.
You can read about the new group online as well, and once again their range of qualifications is broad, from a Harvard educated investment guru to a funeral home director.
But a key line in the news releases, are these little lines: “If confirmed, four of the nominees will fill seats that were previously vacant. The fifth nominee will be on hold and not start his term until later on in 2012.” The new person will remain ‘on hold until the new term starts.’
Sooooo…. That’s awkward. Which of the five draws the short straw and has to sit out? Obviously Baker knew he was nominating more people than the board could hold, but why? Did he overpromise board appointments to folks? What’s the rush? Is someone on the CNB board on the way out and doesn’t know it yet?
Regardless, Baker is trying to put 5 into 4 and we’ll see how that pans out. And we have to ask the council members who voted for these guys (and they are all guys), who they want off the board, or who they want to put in limbo.
