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THE SIMKIN BOARD: LYONS DOES NOT EXPECT BOARD REFORM PRIOR TO NEXT AGM IN OCTOBER

Mar 5, 2012

There are some in the community who think the Centre ought to democratize its Board and announce those reforms, pass new by-laws and move on with a reform structure long befroe the next general Annual Meeting in October– Some have told me that they think that the reforms ought to have been put in place by now or this spring at the latest.

I spoke with Ted Lyons, who is heading up the Task Force on governance issues today and he said, that he hopes to have all the governance issues re: reform of the Board in place for the next general annual meeting next October 2012. He advised it may  take "two years ‘before all the governance issues are resolved.

Jan Currie’s , who is the interim  CEO  ( Sandra Delorme is on leave)  has a contract  that ends on March 31.  It is not clear to me one way or another what will happen after that.

In an "ideal world" he said it would be good to have Board reform completed before October, but Lyons said this this is a "process" and "will take time."

There is a lot of work going into this, Lyons advises. ( I did not ask the question but I wonder if there are internal differences regarding how to reform among various members of the Board). Two weekends from now the Simkin Board will be having a "retreat" at the Simkin Centre with Elaine Todres, an expert on these issues who has been hired by the WRHA, to act as a consultant on governance issues and facilitate this process of dealing with the recommendations of the Peter Kafka report.

For those who want to learn more about Elaine Todres, go to the Todres Leadership website at   http://www.todresleadership.com/pages/special.htm .

Lyons also added that in the spring the Centre is planning to have an event that enables the community to give feedback, as one of the issues in the Kafka report relates to transparency.

In a nutshell: Those who wanted Board Reform to be imminent can be advised that October is the earliest time that Board Reform will be announced.