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Bou 97 PAGE 255 <br />exorbitant salaries for merely doing their jobs. Bonuses should be <br />given out based on efficiency. Mr. Wood said he has been to <br />hospital meetings and has noted a lack of concern for what the <br />people think. He believed the Hospital District's board of <br />trustees should be given more authority and be more deeply involved <br />in all of the operation, including salaries and bonuses. He did <br />not feel that the corporation's existing board of directors has any <br />interest in what the people have to pay in taxes and indigent care <br />costs. Mr. Wood pointed out that the costs for indigent care are <br />twice the cost of Medicare costs. <br />J. B. Egan, III, chairman of the board of directors of IRMH, <br />Inc., stated he would welcome anything to improve education. <br />However, he wished to clarify two things he felt were <br />misunderstood. <br />1) The members of the hospital board of directors get zero <br />dollars. He has been on the board for 10 years as a volunteer and <br />the bonuses do not come to them. <br />2) Having just completed 3 years as chairman of the board of <br />directors, he emphasized that at the end of every meeting he asked <br />if anyone in the room had anything to say about anything. <br />Vince Montuoro, chairman of the Hospital District Board of <br />Trustees, stated he would welcome any workshop that will improve <br />relationships, but would appreciate an agenda and a list of <br />objectives so we can have a nice, structured meeting. <br />Tom Buchanan, a resident of the Moorings, felt it is wonderful <br />that the Board of County Commissioners is looking seriously at the <br />hospital issue. He related the bleeding problems he had at home <br />after being released too soon from out-patient surgery. <br />Commissioner Eggert felt the discussion at the workshop should <br />be limited to the relationship between the board of trustees of the <br />Hospital District and the IRMH, Inc. board of directors. Her main <br />concerns, however, are the flawed lease and returning some of the <br />powers to the trustees. Commissioner Eggert understood then that <br />the second meeting would be about service programs provided by the <br />Hospital District. <br />Commissioner Macht explained that his Motion was to hold a <br />joint workshop meeting with the elected trustees of the Indian <br />River Hospital District to discuss the flawed lease and the <br />authority of the Hospital District Board of Trustees. <br />84 <br />FEBRUARY 6, 1996 <br />