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Clarifying statements made at Hospital public meetings Comments about Spectrum rep claims amount of rejected offer: CONFIDENTIAL By Ralph Roy Waggener Personal commentary by editor of It's Just for a Smile News My comments about West Lake Regional Hospital need to be clarified. If from the beginning we had outside auditors on all our taxing districts, we could have all known how this happened. I have heard by word of mouth that Westlake had a lot of way too high salaries, but it came to me as well as most all of us by word of mouth. We all seem to take information we receive this way with a grain of salt, we sort of believe it and yet we have doubts. I still think we need to be able to see salaries we are responsible for posted, with what each employee makes as well as the perks. Had this information been in a written form just maybe we would have reacted differently and not be in dire straights as we are now in. Most likely salaries would not have been raised to such a high levels if the administrator knew that it would be made public not by word of mouth but as a legal document that could not be disputed. Westlake could be turned around by sound financial operations and by bringing in medical professionals and assuring them they could have someone to work with, but not work under someone but with someone. Let new people know how it's going to work and stick to this plan. No Doctor should be in charge of Westlake but should be treated with respect. Who's in charge has always been a problem at Westlake. If the new Administrator starts working with local clinics and makes deals which benefit both the Clinics and Westlake, so everyone involved feels comfortable with each other we will benefit as a community with good service and have medical services we all need. What is needed is not secrets, but openness which will bring Westlake, medical staff, and community together. Today's business works quite a bit different than business of yesterday. Today business know that working together as one unit, not (BOSSMAN STYLE ) as in olden days, but working as a team is how it's done today. If what I say is considered as a joking manner, then you misread me. I'm very serious about all of our taxing districts operating in the open so that the people who are going to stand good for the debt these Districts create. Westlake should not have gone broke, even though most small business should be experiencing difficulties as most all small business are. The lax reporting and each taxing districts having their own auditors not ours, keeping them honest has had a lot to do with this problem. I don't have all the answers, but I know what has happened would have been caught a lot sooner had we had been privy to the figures all along. Westlake is just one of five taxing districts we all stand good for. It is not important whether the rest are doing a good job or not. What is important, is that we know what each is doing when we are standing good for there actions as taxpayers in Adair Co. If we as a community can raise money for any worthy project, then we all should be looking at what we will be paying for, not as gifts, but taxes. - Ralph R. Waggener This story was posted on 2012-08-12 20:13:37
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