Board elects officers, updates committee roster and schedules budget review meetings

The board completed routine governance business during the session, choosing officers, assigning trustees to standing committees and scheduling follow-up meetings to finalize the budget.

Elections and appointments: Trustees nominated and confirmed officers for the current term: Mary was selected for the board secretary role and Nathan Ballard was nominated for treasurer. Trustees also confirmed Carrie Drews as a member of the governing team. Several trustees discussed and then adopted committee assignments for standing committees including finance, quality, joint conference (medical staff liaison), foundation liaison and an ethics/ad hoc committee.

Committee roster and responsibilities: The board clarified which trustees would serve on each standing body and asked staff to circulate an updated committee roster. Trustees noted the joint conference committee meets with medical staff to consider policy and patient-care matters and asked that at least one trustee be present regularly; trustees agreed to identify a rotating third member for that committee.

Scheduling and procedural steps: The board set an internal timeline for June meetings to review revised budget scenarios and agreed to public-notice steps necessary for the July budget hearing and final adoption. Trustees voted to enter executive session later in the meeting under Browning statute 16-4-405 to discuss personnel and confidential matters.

What was not decided: The board left in place the process for future committee terms and asked staff to provide updated bylaws if membership rules are to be modified; trustees discussed whether standing committees should require two or three trustees going forward but took no bylaw change at the meeting.