Erlanger And Lessons Learned

Though it might have been more circumspect for Erlanger hospital authority board members to wait until the end of the fiscal year before offering $1.7 million in bonuses in the first place, the trustees at least tried to dot their i’s and cross their t’s before having a re-vote on the bonuses they agreed to pay in December.

That re-vote was last night, and, in truth, was a bit of window dressing since the bonuses were widely expected to be approved again and because half of the bonuses have been paid already.

But the Erlanger trustees seem to have learned several lessons from the messy December episode.

* The bonuses plan was slipped into the board’s agenda at the last minute, an act which gave little time for much discussion of the whys and wherefores of the upcoming dispersal and which gave the public the idea the board was trying to hide something.