I think the media is missing the main story. It isn't Sam's retirement package. It is why Sam, after 40 years of major leadership and high visiblilty in the Salinas community chose to have someone else announce his precipitous retirement (2 weeks??) and then have no comments to the media about that announcement. There must have been a major disagreement between Sam and the BOD for this to occur. And interestingly, to have someone so handy in the wings, the interim CEO (for $10,000 per week) who happens to have most recent experience as hired gun in another tax district hospital. There is more to this than the media eyes are seeing. Something does not sit "right" here.
Carol Voss
Prunedale
Layoffs, Payoffs
I think the media is missing the main story. It isn't Sam's retirement package. It is why Sam, after 40 years of major leadership and high visiblilty in the Salinas community chose to have someone else announce his precipitous retirement (2 weeks??) and then have no comments to the media about that announcement. There must have been a major disagreement between Sam and the BOD for this to occur. And interestingly, to have someone so handy in the wings, the interim CEO (for $10,000 per week) who happens to have most recent experience as hired gun in another tax district hospital. There is more to this than the media eyes are seeing. Something does not sit "right" here. Carol Voss Prunedale