Robert Schmid wrote:
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> This is nothing but unfair attacks on Jana Metge. CNIA was running
> nicely UNTIL she was illegally fired by a new Board of Directors who
> were installed as part of coup by Basim Sabri.
As a matter of fact, things were not running nicely at all.
Board meetings were a disaster. CNIA had trouble with the
state for not submitting form 990s on time. $1.2 million was
spent on the 4th and Lake building, much of it NRP funds,
and it reverted to MCDA and was subsequently sold to Sabri.
People of color were screaming that their needs had been
ignored in the NRP Process. CNIA went through a time when
the insurance for employees was screwed up and employees had
to pay out of pocket for health care when they thought they
were covered.
Robert Schmidt was treasurer during part of that period, his
wife, Roxanna Orell, was president. Neither did anything
effective to cope with the issues around race as it
pertained to CNIA.
Had Metge stepped down a year before she was illegally fired
(which she had said she would do ("I'm leaving when the 4th
and Lake building is finished," Metge's words), instead of
allowing Orell to convince her to stay another year, the
whole debacle of CNIA could have been avoided.
It's not a personal attack; it is a pointing out of where
some of the worst of the problem originated.
WizardMarks, Central
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