From the Post Independent (Glenwood Springs):  Colorado Mountain College trustees last month considered censuring a colleague over letters the board member wrote to western Colorado newspapers about college spending.

The censure motion was tabled — but could be brought back — only after Trustee Mary Ellen Denomy of Battlement Mesa agreed to not write any more letters to the editor before a board retreat at the end of August.

Trustee Patricia Theobald of Breckenridge moved to censure Denomy “for repeated, serious violations of the responsibilities of [a] trustee of Colorado Mountain College, for engaging in a public campaign through newspapers across the district to mislead the readers by publishing the minority opinion [and] for expressing condemnation of the board and disapproval of properly approved actions by the board.”

“This conduct can only be intended to cause overwhelming damage to the college,” Theobald’s motion said.

Censure is a formal expression of disapproval that carries no further penalty. CMC trustees represent each of the six Western Slope counties served by the college — Garfield, with two representatives; Summit, Lake, Routt, Eagle and Pitkin.

The CMC board, an elected, unpaid body, adopted a policy in February 2014 — Denomy told the Post Independent she cast the sole dissenting vote — under which “each board member supports the final determination of the board concerning any particular matter, regardless of the member’s personal position concerning such matter.”

Further, the policy says, “The board president is the only spokesperson for the Board of Trustees.”

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