EDITORIAL: CSI’s Paper Tiger
By The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho | |
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It's a troubling revelation that should be immediately rectified. People assume elected officers -- accountable to the voter -- make the final call on issues dealing with money and policy. Instead, the very existence of the board offered a veil of faux transparency, which sheltered the inner workings and backroom deals made in the office of CSI President
The
This was public money being quietly doled out to solve an internal problem. It's antithetical to the basic principles of transparency, a slippery slope that consolidates power in the hands of administrators isolated from the retribution of a displeased public.
While legal, the machinations that resulted in
CSI trustees told us they were informed after the fact. Confidentiality agreements were already in place to protect Cox's prospects on the job market. It was a done deal long before the people who answer to the voters were ever consulted. These facts paint a picture of the real power structure at CSI, one where elected empty suits yield to high-paid administrators.
But this is public business done in secret involving a public employee paid with public cash. It's an upside-down process that protected the embattled coach, but was void of safeguards for the taxpayer.
No longer can CSI trustees sit on the sidelines as athletic directors and college presidents make deals with public money. No longer can CSI trustees assist in hiding the school's internal workings. No longer can CSI trustees be merely a Trojan horse, creating a false perception of openness.
They must demand their rightful power in the wake of the Cox buyout and assure the buck stops where it belongs, at the CSI board.
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