[Lnc-business] reviving Document Destruction and Whistleblower policy efforts

[Alicia Mattson]

I'll be requesting to add an agenda item for discussion of implementing
Document Destruction and Whistleblower policies.

I've dug through past records and assembled materials for this discussion
(see attached).  I don't think we'll be ready to adopt the policies at this
meeting, as I believe we need some review/advice from legal counsel first,
but I have found the draft materials we'll need to restart the effort where
it left off.

It may not have been the first time, but in July 2013 the outside audit
firm recommended that the LNC adopt Document Destruction and Whistleblower
policies.  See attached for their explanation.  The Audit Committee chair
(Aaron Starr) volunteered to craft a first draft.

In March 2014 the Audit Committee report included those drafts (see
attached) and requested review/advice from our legal counsel.

Gary Sinawski was our legal counsel at the time, but he suffered from
prolonged medical issues for many months prior to his death in September
2014.

In June 2014 (end of the LNC term) the EPCC placed some whistleblower
language in the employee manual (see attached) and indicated it was a
boilerplate which should be revisited more fully in the subsequent term
with assistance from legal counsel.

EPCC reports since that time have repeatedly recommended that the LNC
finalize this process, but we're not there yet.

Let's get this ball rolling again.  We have a new legal counsel.  With the
pending project to clean out large volumes of old records, it's
particularly timely for us to finish this task.

-Alicia
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