(02-11-2015 08:21 AM)TheGORILLA Wrote: Many residents of Mountain Brook, and those affiliated with their City Hall, are Alabama Graduates, fans, and boosters of U of A. Their kids go to Alabama. Why would they unite and go against the grain of the Board of Trustees support of Watts?
Finally, back on topic.
Because this is an issue of democratic rule, of fairness, of trustworthy stewardship of vital public assets. A self-perpetuating Board dominated by gambling-connected individuals controls the Crimson Tide program, a team whose games involved over a billion dollars in legal bets last year and several times that in illegal ones. A self-perpetuating Board dominated by officers of a single bank controls billions of dollars in bond issues. And in neither case are this Board's decisions ever even discussed in public, let alone subject to outside review.
The Board's last selections for univesity president at the three campuses? A politically-connected Congressman's sister, a politically-connected mayor's brother, and a raging incompetent willing to carry out the petty agenda of Drummond and Bryant.
Every alumni of the University of Alabama System's three universities should be filled with rage and demanding the following:
1. The total replacement of the Board of Trustees with an accountable, transparent system.
2. A full-scale forensic audit of all bond issues and construction projects approved by the Board, an in particular, an investigation of timelines relating to Bryant Bank and UAS bonds.
3. The release of all former employees of the UA System from any and all non-disclosure agreements, including but not limited to Carol Garrison, Guy Bailey, Malcom Portera, Mike Shula and Brian Mackin.
4. The release of all recordings of video conferences involving three or more members of the UA System Board of Trustees.
If there's nothing to hide, there's nothing to fear. Show us the books, answer our questions.