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DESCRIPTION:Supporters of access to quality health care for the most vulnerable of 
 Alameda  County's residents need to protest the plan of the County Board of 
 Supervisors to  appoint Sheriff Charles Plummer to the Alameda County 
 Medical Center (ACMC) Board of  Trustees.  Why is this a problem?  ACMC 
 trustees have a legal fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interest 
 of  the Medical Center.  Plummer cannot fulfill this responsibility because 
 as elected  sheriff he has advocated against the Medical Center getting 
 adequate funding from  the County's General Fund, which is also the source 
 of Sheriff's Dept. funding.  In  other words, he would have a conflict of 
 interest if he served on the ACMC Board,  which he insists competes for 
 public funding that he wants for his own department.   His public solution 
 to budget problems at ACMC is to cut services to the poor.  There is no 
 financial crisis at the Medical Center.  There is a crisis of  leadership.  
 ACMC needs an experienced CEO with the vision to move the Medical  Center 
 forward.  Plummer's appointment is the "nuclear option" which sabotages the 
  current effort to hire a new CEO -  his many attacks on the Medical Center 
 have  included criticism of their efforts to build a working relationship 
 with labor and  community groups like Vote Health.  Please call your 
 Supervisor to vote against the appointment of Sheriff Plummer to  the ACMC 
 Board of Trustees:    a.. Trustees have a legal fiduciary responsibility to 
 act in the best interest of  the Medical Center, and Plummer cannot fulfill 
 this charge due to his conflict of  interest as Sheriff.     b.. ACMC faces 
 a leadership crisis, not a financial crisis.  Plummer's appointment  will 
 sabotage current efforts to hire a new CEO.  Here are phone numbers, faxes 
 and email address for the four supervisors who support  the appointment of 
 Plummer to the Board of Trustees:  President Keith Carson  dist5@acgov.org  
 510/272-6695  510/271-5151  Vice President Scott Haggerty  
 district1@acgov.org  510/272-6691  510/208-3910  Supervisor Gail Steele  
 dist2@acgov.org  510/272-6692  510/271-5115  Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker  
 BOSDist3@acgov.org  510/272-6693  510/268-8004  Please note that the 
 appointment has been buried in the consent calendar (item #39)  for Tuesday 
 at 10am, May 17th's meeting of the Board of Supervisors at 1221 Oak St.,  
 Oakland, Fifth floor.  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/13/66003.php
SUMMARY:Alameda County to Consider Evil Medical Center Trustee
LOCATION:Please note that the appointment has been buried in the consent calendar 
 (item #39)  for Tuesday at 10am, May 17th's meeting of the Board of 
 Supervisors at 1221 Oak St.,  Oakland, Fifth floor.  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/13/66003.php
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