KMHC Board Elections: Postponed
Written by Jeremy Zafran on 29 August 2022
Elections that were set for today for the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center’s Board of Directors are off. Lisa Westaway is the Executive Director of the KMHC on what went wrong:
“Unfortunately, we have 2 seats available, however, the system is only allowing a vote for 1 seat. Therefore, in order to ensure a fair election we would like to cancel the election immediately and reschedule.”
When will the new election date for the board take place, Westaway says the details are being worked out:
“We’re just in the process of finalizing the date it’ll either be late this week or early next week.”
As for the votes that were already submitted:
“No, those votes will be null and void and as we start the new election, we’ll be starting fresh.”
The election was to fill 2 Community Representative positions on the Board, with 3 nominations that were put forward by the Monday, August 15th deadline. The vote was being held through: www.electionbuddy.com for those on the Kahnàwake Kanien’kehá:ka registry. The 3 nominees are Arnold Lazare, Kim Martin and Frank McComber. Martin has worked as a nurse for 17 years, and Lazare has been on the board for the past 9 years. McComber is a former elected official with the Mohawk Council of Kahnàwake.
