Maine Gov. Vetoes Bill to Add Nonvoting Employee Trustees | Inside Higher Ed

School and workers members hoping for a voice on the College of Maine’s Board of Trustees received’t get one after Democratic governor Janet Mills vetoed a invoice that may add trustees from each teams.

School and workers would have been added as nonvoting members below the invoice, L.D. 1820, which Mills shot down final week. In vetoing the invoice, Mills claimed that it might violate college insurance policies and create a battle of curiosity, in keeping with reporting by The Portland Press Herald.

“The attitude of college, workers, and the general public is actually vital to the work of the Board of Trustees of the College of Maine System,” Mills wrote in her veto letter. “I inspired the Board to develop higher strategies for acquiring enter from present school and workers at its Board and subcommittee conferences to make sure that they’ve ample alternative for involvement in important choices impacting the System. Nonetheless, I imagine this will and ought to be completed with out including to the membership of the Board particular person school and workers who’re presently employed by the System.”