Board charts new course for historical society
After a turbulent annual meeting on October 7, the Le Sueur County Historical Society entered new and calmer waters at a meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 18.
Society member Bill Stangler explained that the special meeting was called by a petition signed by 15 Society members and submitted to then-President Jenifer Morsching. He said it was a continuation of the October 7 annual meeting that ended when a Le Sueur County Deputy Sheriff kicked everyone out of Cleveland City Hall and no motion to adjourn was made.
According to Stangler, members called the special meeting to address several of the Society’s bylaws, which he called, “very exclusive, arbitrary and capricious.”
Stangler told everyone of a news release issued on October 17 by Jenn Urban, a Twin Cities-based attorney who has represented the Society for several years. Urban called the petitioned-meeting valid, but not legitimate.
Stangler doesn’t see it that way. He said because the Society operated with less than the minimum required board of directors according to its bylaws, it had already violated its bylaws. The only official board member at the end of the October 7 meeting was treasurer Evelyn Fierst, he stated. Board President Jenifer Morsching was not re-elected. Interim board member Donna Morsching’s position was questionable.
Neither of the Morschings, Fierst nor Coordinator Kathy Burns attended the October 18 meeting.
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