<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of today's (July 17, 2017) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">--------------------------------</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div id="AppleMailSignature"><h1 itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 42px; margin: 0px 100px 0px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Gritman general board member resigns</h1><h2 itemprop="alternativeHeadline" class="subhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 10px 100px 10px 0px; font-size: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Another says several won't support top officers' actions</h2></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The president and CEO of the Latah Credit Union has resigned from the 30-member general board of Gritman Medical Center after its members were asked to sign a letter supporting the 10-member Board of Directors and the hospital's administration.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The resignation comes after a closed meeting last week to strip B.J. Swanson of her board memberships and explain the directors and administration position in light of criticisms by former chair Swanson of how new chair Greg Kimberling was handling conflicts of interest. Swanson resigned from all her hospital affiliations before the boards could meet.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Lowell H. Stevens wrote on Friday, "I have submitted my resignation from the General Membership to Mr. Kimberling and will not be attaching my signature to the letter. It does not portray the meeting in a positive light and appears to be a mean-spirited, in your face, rebuttal. I know I never voiced a vote in favor of the motion, and am ashamed that I did not speak up at the moment when I had the chance. The motion was unnecessary and to publicly broadcast it as unanimous, as was relayed in yesterday's paper was just as unnecessary."</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">He said he hopes the board and administration "can all find a way to come together without extracting a pound of flesh."</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Stevens was replying to an email sent to general members with "talking points" and a letter of support for the board of directors.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">"If you are comfortable having your name signed to this letter that will go in the papers, please write back and let me know," wrote Danielle Breed, executive assistant to Gritman CEO Kara Besst. "If you have concerns, questions, or suggestions, please let me know that, as well."</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">General board member Sharon Harris of Kendrick, a consistent support of Swanson, emailed the Daily News on Saturday that she and some other general board members are not signing a vote of confidence for the Board of Directors.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">"I didn't hear anything at that meeting that indicated change," she wrote. "There was only an effort to justify all of their existing actions by blaming all wrong on BJ. Out of one side of their mouth they spoke of treating all with respect, while bashing BJ out of the other side."</div></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">--------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>