Wills’ irked at comments in monitoring report
Comments in a monitoring report regarding treatment of employees drew fire from an obviously irked President Wills and the Chair of the District Governing Board at the April 14 Board meeting. Wills demanded that “either the data needs to be presented or it needs to be retracted unless that’s not appropriate for that.” The comments, written by Board member Deb McCasland, were contained in a monitoring report and became public at the April 14 Board meeting. They are in part reproduced here.
Governing Board member Deb McCasland.
Ms. McCasland wrote in the monitoring report: “In my opinion there is a disconnect in what is reported and what actually happens. The number of employees leaving the college is a high number compared to previous years and administrations. I think the CEO has failed on numerous occasions to provide leadership in Questionable situations blaming the messenger and not the actual situation. I have discussed situations that in my opinion are unethical and possibly illegal with Dr. Wills. Her responses were she was not aware of the situation or it was because of `disgruntled employees.’ All of the information I shared was from personal observations or former employees.”
The Board Chair, Pat McCarver, obviously angered by the written comments, repeatedly warned McCasland. McCarver said: “I . . . personally found your comments, Deb, to be offensive, inappropriate, and unprofessional. . . . I do think you need to be very careful about what you say * * * when you are making accusations.”
The Board went on to approve the monitoring report without change. You may view the exchanges, which were caught on video, by clicking here.