Procedures for Addressing a Conflict of Interest. A Director who notices a matter that could raise a conflict of interest issue for the Director, when reading a Board meeting agenda or board book in preparation for a meeting, the Director should immediately cease reading about the topic in the board book, notify the President/Chair of the possible conflict, and recuse him/herself from attendance at any board discussion or vote on the matter. • A Director with a disclosed potential conflict shall leave the Board or AHIMA Committee meeting during the discussion of and voting on the matter at issue. • After exercising due diligence, the Board or AHIMA Committee shall determine whether: o The disclosed conflict shall be waived as unlikely to affect the Director’s ability to act in the best interests of AHIMA, or to negatively affect the integrity or image of XXXXX, or o In the best interest of XXXXX, the Director should be recused from discussion and/or voting on the matter at issue. • A Director who has been recused from a discussion at a Board or AHIMA Committee meeting shall not return to the meeting room until he or she has been advised that the relevant discussion and action have concluded. The minutes will reflect that the Director recused him/herself from the discussion. • If, in the preparation of the board book, AHIMA staff identify a conflict within the materials to be provided to the board, staff shall alert the CEO. The CEO can confer with the President/Chair to determine whether the materials should be removed from the board book of the Director with the potential conflict. The Board President/Chair will notify the Director if this information was removed and ask the Director to recuse him/herself from the discussion and vote on the matter.
Procedures for Addressing a Conflict of Interest. A volunteer with a disclosed potential conflict shall leave the Committee meeting during the discussion of, and the vote on, recusal of the volunteer from discussion of and voting on the matter at issue. • After exercising due diligence, the Committee shall determine whether: o The disclosed conflict shall be waived as unlikely to affect the volunteer’s ability to act in the best interests of AHIMA, or to negatively affect the integrity or image of AHIMA, or o In the best interest of AHIMA, the volunteer should be recused from discussion and/or voting on the matter at issue. • A volunteer who has been recused from a discussion at a Committee meeting shall not return to the meeting room until he or she has been advised that the relevant discussion and action have concluded.
Procedures for Addressing a Conflict of Interest. A Director with a disclosed potential conflict shall leave the Board or AHIMA Committee meeting during the discussion of, and the vote on, recusal of the Director from discussion of and voting on the matter at issue. After exercising due diligence, the Board or AHIMA Committee shall determine whether: o The disclosed conflict shall be waived as unlikely to affect the Director’s ability to act in the best interests of AHIMA, or to negatively affect the integrity or image of AHIMA, or o In the best interest of AHIMA, the Director should be recused from discussion and/or voting on the matter at issue. A Director who has been recused from a discussion at a Board or AHIMA Committee meeting shall not return to the meeting room until he or she has been advised that the relevant discussion and action have concluded..
Procedures for Addressing a Conflict of Interest. 1. The President of the Board or chair of the committee shall, if appropriate, appoint a disinterested person or committee to investigate alternatives to the proposed transaction or arrangement.
Procedures for Addressing a Conflict of Interest. An interested person may make a presentation at the governing board or committee meeting, but after the presentation, he/she shall leave the meeting during the discussion of, and the vote on, the transaction or arrangement involving the possible conflict of interest. The chairperson of the governing board or committee shall, if appropriate, appoint a disinterested person or committee to investigate alternatives to the proposed transaction or arrangement. After exercising due diligence, the governing board or committee shall determine whether the School can obtain with reasonable efforts a more advantageous transaction or arrangement from a person entity that would not give rise to a conflict of interest. If a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is not reasonably possible under circumstances not producing a conflict of interest, the governing board or committee shall determine by a majority vote of the disinterested directors whether the transaction or arrangement is in the School's best interest, for its own benefit, and whether it Is fair and reasonable. In conformity with the above determination it shall make Its decision as to whether to enter into the transaction or arrangement. Violations of the Conflicts of Internet Policy If the governing board or committee has reasonable cause to believe a trustee, officer or employee has failed to disclose actual or possible conflicts of interest, it shall Inform the trustee, officer or employee of the basis for such belief and afford the member an opportunity to explain the alleged failure to disclose. If, after hearing the trustee, officer or employee's response and after making further Investigation as warranted by the circumstances, the governing board or committee determines the trustee, officer or employee has failed to disclose an actual or possible conflict of interest, It shall take appropriate disciplinary and corrective action. Any contract entered into with a prohibited interest is null, void and unenforceable. Further any trustee, officer, or employee who willfully and knowingly violates this policy shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
