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IU Board of Trustees meets residency requirements
Aug. 15, 2001
BLOOMINGTON -- The Indiana University Board of Trustees will convene Friday (Aug. 17) in the Conference Center at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus for its annual organizational meeting with the conclusion of the president of the board, John Walda, that all of its members meet residency requirements.
Following the recent alumni election of Sue Hays Talbot of Bloomington to the board, questions were raised about whether the nine-member panel now has one too many Monroe County residents. State law limits the number of trustees who can live in Monroe County, where IU's main campus is located, to just two. Trustees Frederick Eichhorn and Stephen Ferguson also live in Monroe County.
After research and consultation, Walda explained that Eichhorn's residency, for purposes of board membership, is Lake County. Eichhorn, who was first appointed to the board by the governor of Indiana in 1990, moved just last year from Lake County to Monroe County.
Although this exact issue has never arisen in the past, there is authority that would indicate that a board member's county of residence is controlled by the county of residence at the time of appointment. "This research also causes us to conclude that the board is legally constituted and any actions taken by the board are legal and proper," Walda said.
(John Walda, 812-855-0850)