The City Council on Friday appointed a new seven-member Memorial Health System Board of Brustees as well as two alternates.
The new board members are:
- Marcy Morrison, former Manitou Springs mayor, state representative and El Paso County commissioner.
- Fred Veitch, vice president of commercial development of Nor’wood Development Group, one of the city’s largest real estate development firms.
- Jim Johnson, president and CEO of GE Johnson Construction Co. Inc., the city’s largest locally based general contractor.
- Dirk Draper, vice president and area manager of CH2MHill, a large engineering firm, and past board chairman of what was the Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce.
- Jan Weiland, a financial advisor with Cascade Investment Group and former president of the Southern Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce.
- Curtis Brown, senior vice president of investments for UBS Financial.
- Debbie Chandler, CEO of Colorado Springs Health Partners, the largest local physician practice.
Doug Stimple,CEO of Classic Cos., a local homebuilding and land development firm, was approved as an alternate, as was Steven Gold.
Council Nominations
Mary Beazley
Kathy Boe
Curtis Brown
Debbie Chandler
Al Farr
Jill Gaebler
Joan Gervis
Steven Gold
Cherie Gorby
Jim Johnson
Keith Ketelsen
Doug Landolfi
Walter Lawson
David Mize
Marcy Morrison
Al Mueller
Jay Patel
Dr. Paul Pavlick
Dr. Raphael Sassower
Doug Stimple
Fred Veitch
Jan Weiland
Joe Woodford
Self-Nominations
William P. Murray
Christopher Erickson
Karla Price
Danny Raider
Karl Spiecker
Karla Heard-Price
Doris Ralston, MPA, CHES
Virginia Smith, RN
Thomas Saba, Ph.D.
Kailash Jaitly
Nothing like a group of Herr Bach’s cronnies. How many builders and deveopers here? Funny how MHS is being given away and no citzen has voted yet
Six of the seven have no related health experience at all so they probably cannot relate to any of Memorials staff. This board is all about development and banking. Frankly, it is the usual suspects and probably more like the previous board than we think.
Funny that to the developer mentality anyone in the least bit involved with development and real estate automatically knows everything necessary about hospital administration.
No doctors, all politicians, real estate investors and developers? I dont know if you noticed Rick but the council not Bach appointed this useless “hospital” board.
I guess in the next year we will announce a new hospital, built on land owned by Classic Construction, developed by Nor’wood Development Group, built by GE Johnson Construction Co, designed by CH2MHill, financed by the Cascade Investment Group & UBS, to be overseen by Colorado Springs Health Partners and an El Paso County commissioner. I wonder where the city council will wind up once they are voted out for abusing the tax payers dollars? Hummmm.
Sounds like our money is in great hands. Especially with the high level of corruption that the El Paso County commissioners have demonstrated to the voters over the years.
What the undercover cops Poole and True that got caught lying to a judge and never faced ANY disciplinary action were not available? Oh yea, thats right they are still too busy entrapping minors, going to strip clubs and drinking/driving on the job all day. Sorry I forgot.
Can we get a do over for the board, the city council and the Chief of Police?
Cherie Gorby?! Doug Landolfi?!
Both former execs of Memorial that didn’t make through an executive shake-up. Their tenor here was, um, interesting to say the least. Both of those names got lots of laughs in my department when we read it.
Both of them served terms during a time at Memorial that’s considered by many, a worse time than now! And that’s saying a lot!
Soooo glad that they didn’t make to the Board. That would have been disaster. I like the current line up well enough…
Many are complaining of the choices of the new Board of Trustee’s of Memorial Hosp. Why are those people crying foul? There were many people who volunteered and did not get chosen, I for one did not know there was going to be a list out for those that wanted to volunteer, felt left out, but my life goes on. I am sure that all those that were chosen was for the leadership ability and hold high positions in the El Paso Workforce. There was some squabble about one individual Marcy Morrison in another article, because she did not live in the Colorado Springs City. I thought Memorial was to serve the entire El Paso County and the state of Colorado citizens in any health matter. Hopefully the best for the new Board and they don’t make the same mistake as the last Board.
SPRINGS, GET THAT HOSPITAL SOLD. THE CITY’S PERA LIABILITIES WILL SOAR WHEN THE LEGISLATURE’S ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF FULLY-VESTED PERA RETIREMENT BENEFITS IS OVERTURNED IN THE COURTS.
COLORADO PERA PENSION THEFT LAWSUIT SCHEDULE AND HOW TO HELP.
The group fighting the Colorado Legislature’s theft of contracted pension benefits (saveperacola.com) posted a Colorado Court of Appeals schedule on their website today (as follows):
“We have received notice of the following scheduled dates for the lawsuit:
4/23/12 – Appellees to Supplement Record
5/29/12 – Appellee’s Answering Brief
6/12/12 – Appellant’s Reply Brief
PERA and the State of Colorado are the appellees. Gary R. Justus et al are the appellants.”
Saveperacola also posted a request for help from Colorado PERA members, retirees and any others who support the rule of law in the United States. Saveperacola is raising funds for attorney fees to combat the theft of retirement benefits that were earned by PERA members over decades.
Are you a PERA member or retiree? Have you paid into PERA for many years? Do you expect the Colorado Legislature and Colorado PERA to honor their contractual obligations to you?
Well, your expectations are not grounded in reality.
It is pathetic, but the Colorado Legislature and Colorado PERA will not honor their legal commitments to you short of a court order. That has become quite clear during Colorado PERA’s political, legal and lobbying campaigns.
If Colorado PERA members and retirees do not act, our interests will be brushed aside.
In a nutshell, the Colorado Legislature and Colorado PERA are trying to avoid their debts to public employees. The Colorado Legislature has the ability to “define” a pension “crisis” into existence and then attempt to use that “crisis” to justify the breach of pension contracts.
The Legislature can create a funding “crisis” by skipping its annual required contributions to the PERA trust funds. For a decade the Colorado Legislature has done just that. It has ignored the level of contributions that it must make every year to the PERA pension in order keep it financially sound. This level of annual contributions (called the ARC) is determined each year by Colorado PERA’s actuaries. To date, the skipped contributions exceed $3.5 billion. Just this week the Colorado Legislature is skipping in annual required pension contributions in order to provide $100 million in discretionary tax relief. Having ignored its obligations for years, the Legislature would like to compensate for its negligence by essentially stealing money from Colorado PERA members and retirees.
The Colorado Legislature and Colorado PERA are also trying to use the volatility of investment markets to justify their breach of contracts. Remember that Colorado PERA members and retirees are members of a defined benefit plan. They do not bear any “market risk.” In a defined benefit pension, “market risk” is borne by the sponsors of the plan, that is, the State of Colorado and Colorado local governments.
The Colorado Legislature and Colorado PERA want to retroactively change the terms of our statutory pension contract.
Here’s a quote from the new post on the saveperaacola website:
“Remember, the bottom line here is that unless we prevail in this lawsuit, PERA is off the hook for keeping the promises it made to every member and retiree.”
What can you do? Go to the saveperacola.com website, click on the “Support” tab, and send them a contribution. Call or e-mail every PERA member and retiree you know and ask them send support. Call your public employee union representatives and ask them how they can stand idly by while the Colorado Legislature attempts to breach its contracts with public employees. Colleagues of our public sector union officials across the country are aggressively defending the pension rights of their union members. What has happened in Colorado is truly bizarre.
To follow developments in the Colorado pension theft lawsuit sign up as a Friend of Save Pera Cola on Facebook.
Have your friends sign up as Friends of Save Pera Cola. Copy this post and e-mail it to PERA members and retirees you know.
Drunk cop: you made me laugh so hard. Thanks for making my day!
Drunk Cop keep telling it like it is. WE all see it for what it is.
Lilithia
CSHP is no longer taking Medicare patients!
And they are now to be on the board of Memorial!
Morrison doesnt even live in Co Springs.!
F amazing !
oh and what is a Brustee!
Classic home employee on Memorial Board. Classic home employee new part-time Department Planning Director Bach is paying $175.00 hourly. Wow, I should apply to Classic Homes or the City. Has Bach hired one person whose salary isn’t way above the normal private pay range? Show me the money, Mr Mayor.