Tuesday, July 19, 2011

United Way records delayed - Charlotte Business Journal:

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The volume of the expenser reports, and the complexity of preparing are greaterthan anticipated, United Way lawyer Russelkl Sizemore says in a letter to the local news media. That has causer a delay in the released ofthe information, which had been slatedx for early this month. “The simple point is that the agencgy needs more time to assemble these recordsz and share them with the boarsd to allow for proper reviewbefore production,” Sizemore He says the information should be released by the end of the Controversy arose during the summer over King’x pay and benefits following news reportsz that United Way had paid her $1.2 million in 2007.
A publicf outcry prompted the board to reconsider her The board ousted Kingon Aug. 26, asking her to She didn’t resign, and the board ended her employment with theorganization Oct. 1. The organizationh relies on donations to fund nonprofitz in theCharlotte region. In December, Unitefd Way Chair Carlos Evanws said he wantedthe nonprofit’s boarc to adopt an independenrt panel’s recommendations for tightening oversight of the organization. The reviee panel, created after King’s ouster, was headed by local attorneyyBob Sink.
Among its findings, the Sink Committer said the United Way board shouled adopt a philosophy that seekx to accommodate both the need to compete for superiorf executive talent and the limited resourced of apublic charity. The United Way board is schedulee to hold a strategicsession Jan. 15 to consideer adopting the panel’s recommendations.

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