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What is going on at NTMC??
First they try to change the law so they can take most of the hospital private. The existing board would have
had no control over hospital operations. They wanted to form a non-profit corporation to run the hospital with a board
that was not elected and accountable to the voters of Cooke County. The existing board elected by the voters would have
had limited power to levy taxes to pay off the debt, pay for indigent care and lease the facilities to the non-profit hospital
corporation.
Fortunately the Weekly News of Cooke County and Richard Stark raised the awareness on this
plan of the Administrator, Steven Porter and the board changed their vote.
Then some citizens decided to apply
for a position on the board as a write-ion candidate. Apparently someone at NTMC wasn't too happy with that.
They got busy with a word processor and created a doctored set of Texas laws to try and convince Ken Arterbury and Stephen
Harlow that their applications as candidates were invalid because they were told they needed petitions with 50 signed voter
signatures. This document was made up by someone at the hospital to try and convince these two citizens that they weren't
qualified to be on the Gainesville Hospital District dba as NTMC Board.
Fortunately, an attorney at the Secretary
of State saw it differently and called the hospital administration and told them that Mr. Arterbury and Mr. Harlow's applications
were valid and they had to be seated on the NTMC Board.
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