A motion to ask the five county-appointed members of the Missaukee (Mich.) District Library board to step down was vetoed 6–3 at the August 14 meeting of the Missaukee County Board of Commissioners. The motion came after resident Dick Iverson presented the idea as a possible solution to the continuing controversy surrounding the board’s March 15 firing of Director Kathy Glass.
Iverson said the board members are “good people who thought that what they were doing was the correct thing to do, but far too many of our citizens think otherwise,” he said. Iverson indicated he spoke only for himself and that he was not affiliated with a recently formed citizens’ group that plans to sue the board, the Cadillac News reported August 15.
Commissioner Jack McGee said, “The only solution is very slow and very excruciating. Let the board that we appointed work through it.”
Board president Sue Armstead told the News that she has “some real concerns about resigning. I don’t want to turn this library over to the group of people who are causing all the problems.”
Posted August 20, 2001.