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Governors vote to leave conservation up to states
A listing of the class of 2014 from all Central Oregon high schools. C4-6
Wait timeS — Veteranscan
By Tara Bannowe The Bulletin
go outside the VA for doct rs now, but that doesn't mea they'll see one faster. A6
By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
St. Charles Health System was among only three nonprofit hospitals and health systems serving owners are still caught between state licensing and I cal ordinances.BS
The other two, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Providence Health 8 Services, are multibilliondollar operations with dozens of hospitals across the country.
socratron, of which Oregon
what's in store this season. 1
is a member, passed a resolution putting forward its
* St. Charles Health System Board of Directors compensation, 2011 and 2012
POW —Bowe Bergdahl returns to the U.S. A2
Pay 2011
Director name, title Professional role Dennis Dempsey, director Central Oregon supervisor, University of Oregon $0 Dan Schuette, vice chair senior broker at HomeFederal Bank $15,000 Lauri Miller, director former chief financial officer for Eagle Crest Resort, Redmond; real estate agent $19,227
AndaWebexclusiveTexas' open carry movement As more people bring out the r guns in public, passions and tensions are inflamed. beatibenetia.cem/extras
reservations about a fee
for a table? By Julia Moskin New Yorh Times News Service
primetablesaremade available, snagging them
2012 hoursspent purwuek on boardactivity
$27,500
10
$23,000
10
position, which noted that
W estern statesareproactively engaged in species conservation as an alter-
native to regulation under the federal Endangered Species Act.
"ESA listing decisions
have realeconomic impacts for state and local
$22,500
$9,000
10
$9,400
$18,000
$18,288
$14,000
$14,727
$10,500
$9,000
$7,500
$0
$0
$0 Robert Gould,"' director $0 ** Carol Woodard-Kozimor, director 14,455 *2011 wasthefirstyear board memberswerecompensated. Taxinformation is notyet available for 2013. ** no longer aboard member
$0
restriction on rangeland
10
$22,000
grazing, hunting, tourism and development of resources on public and private lands. The negative economic impacts of federal ESA decisions fall solely on states, local communities, businesses, jobs, and private property owners," the resolution states.
Source: St. Charles Health System Internal Revenue Services Form 990, 2011 and 2012
courtesy for a particular guest'? Is it the guest, who
lines at the moment when
Pay 2012
governments through
attorney and managing partner, Karnopp Petersen LLP inBend Doug Downer, director president, Sundowner Capital Management, LLC inBend Josh Cook,** director emergency room physician, St. Charles Redmondand Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Prineville Knute Buehler, director orthopedic surgeon, TheCenter: Orthopedic & Neurosurgical Care & Researchin Bend Robert Hekale, director medical director, Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades Jill Hoggard Green,** director chief operating officer, Mission Health in North Carolina Megan Haase, director chief executive officer, Mosaic Medical
Have any
who pays workers to frantically redial reservation
2011hnursspent perweek onboard activity
ThomasSeyeg,chairman
EDITOR'SCHOICE
made the reservation and can use it — or not — at will? Or is it the entrepreneur
See Governors/A5
Greg Cross/The Bulletin
This is the crux of the
restaurant industry's debate over selling reservationsfor cash, a smolder-
ing issue being reignited by mobile apps that do just that.
Nowhere is the competition for tables more cutthroat than in New York
City, where a black market in restaurant reservations exists online. But
since February, several new apps have taken the fight to the streets: Zurvu, Shout, Killer Rezzy and,
Obama pulled back toward Iraq
The question of whether hospitals should pay their board members evokes an array of ethical By Peter Baker
stances. Some view serving on a board as a way for accomplished individuals to give back to their
New York Times News Service
communities, and believe it should be done only on a volunteer basis. Others counter that being a
high-profile speech to Army
WASHINGTON — In a
cadets last month, Presi-
director requires a great deal of time and specific expertise, and offering compensation can help
dent Barack Obama tried to move
hospitals build the strongest boards possible.
ANALYSIS beyond
members have to devote to serving on
America's tumultuous adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan with a new doctrine all but forswearing the use of military
the board," he said.
power except in the most
'A heck ofavacation'
direofcircumstances. Barely two weeks later, Obama has found himself in those circumstances and seems on the verge of ordering the U.S. military tointervene once more in Iraq. While ruling out
under false names and
marking them up for sale to diners?
WASHINGTON — The Western Governors' As-
sociation has embraced a plan to leave sage grouse conservation efforts up to states in an effort to keep the bird off the endangered species list. On Wednesday, the as-
Oregon that paid its boards of directors in 2012.
Tower Theatre — Find ut
Who owns a restaurant reservation? Is it the restaurant, having set aside a table as a
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The former view prevails in Oregon fore extensive debate over the pros and cons of doing so, as well as the goahead from an external consultant, said for which such documents are available Board Chairman Thomas Sayeg, who — of 30 nonprofit hospitals and health received $22,000 for serving as a St. systems in Oregon and found only three, Charles board member in 2012. "The critical factor for the board was including St. Charles, paid their directors. (Six smaller hospitals were not in- the recognition that it was becoming duded becausetheir documents could more and more difficult to attract new, not be obtained.) Nationally, 16 percent highly qualified board candidates and of nonprofit hospitals and health systems even to retain some of the experienced paid their directors last year, up from 15 board members that we had on the percent in 2011, according to a survey by board," he said. the Governance Institute, an organizaDirectors are being asked to devote tion of hospitals and health systems that increasing amounts of time to the orgastudies health care trends. nization as it struggles to adjust to new St. Charles' directors voted unanistate and federal government regulamously in 2010 to start compensation tions, Sayeg said. and nationally. The Bulletin reviewed the 2012 tax filings — the most recent year
at the beginning of 2011, but not be-
"The compensation, we
would be a way to help recognize the significant time commitment that these
St. Charles directors made between $7,500 and $27,500 in 2012. Their earnings totaled $145,000 that year, a nearly $36,000 increase from 2011, which Sayeg saidwas li kely because fewer board members rejected pay in 2012. Director Megan Haase, the CEO of
ground troops to save the
Mosaic Medical,and former director
beleaguered Baghdad gov-
Jill Hoggard Green, currently the chief operating officer of Mission Health in
ernment from insurgents,
North Carolina, declined compensation in2012.
See St. Charles/A4
b e lieved,
starting Monday, Resy are
Obama is considering a range of options, including airstrikes by drones and
piloted aircraft. See Iraq /A7
all striving to become the
favored portal for people willing to pay a premium to get into the best restaurants, at the last minute, via a few taps on their mo-
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