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Martin clarifies her board vote

I want to set the record straight.

The article written by Jim Anderson on Sept. 26 misrepresented my actions.

I requested Anderson print a clarification of the news reporting he did, and the clarification appeared at the bottom of Page 3 of the Oct. 9 edition of The Daily News. In my opinion, Anderson’s clarification also fell short of the mark.

In the article appearing on Sept. 26, Anderson reported that, speaking as a citizen, I requested that the hospital board terminate the CEO. That is true.

Anderson stated that at the Sept. 24 Dickinson County Board meeting, I opposed doing just that. That is not true.

The motion presented at the county board meeting was two-fold: that the hospital board fire Schon and that the entire hospital board resign immediately. I voted no.

My belief is that the CEO should be terminated and that certain hospital board members, not all of them, need to be gone.

The motion at the county board meeting on which I voted “no” was not a good course of action.

If the CEO and the hospital board were gone, who would run the day-to-day operations of the hospital? Who would pay the bills? Who would make decisions? That is the reason I voted no.

In my opinion, it would be unwise to advocate the wholesale dismissal of these people without having the right people in place to continue hospital operations.

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