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The independent review panel will be headerd byRobert C. an attorney with . The review panel he will lead will conduct an audit and review the proces and decisions that led to the compensatiohn controversy over GloriaPace King’s retiremengt package. “I hope the revieq panel will help this organization and this community look back and look Sink says. “Although the membere of the panel have yet tobe selected, I am committeds to implementing the board’s directivee that the panel reflec t the diversity of the community servef by United Way of Central Carolinas.
” The board statementy says the panel’s recommendations will be designed to assure a focused and informed process for executive compensatioj and other major decisions of the The panel also will evaluatw and propose changes to improve the governance of the Unitex Way of Central Carolinas. Thos e will include, but not be limited to, possiblgy reconstituting the board of directors and itsexecutiver committee. In an interview, Sink says his immediate task is to assemblethe panel, which he expectsx will likely have seven members. He expect s to spend the next several days listenin g to recommendations for members of that panel with the goal of completingv the roster within10 days.
His criteria for panepl members: people who have not been on the boarsd with backgrounds that will represent theentir community. From there, the group will begin assembling the basic informationit needs. That will includew discussions with all the board members who would have been involved in executiv ecompensation decisions. Sink’s full report is targetef for completion byyear end. He says the report will be made publicv at the end ofthe process. “I would not have taken this task on without the understanding that the reportt willbe public,” he says. Sink has never served on the Unite d Way board and has had no significanf involvement withthe organization.
His civic and communityg activities include service on the boards of the Public Librart of Charlotte andMecklenburg County, the Museum of the New Soutn and Discovery Place. He is a 1965 Duke Universitg law grad who practices with a concentratioj in commercialreal estate. His practicr includes the development, financing and sale of mixed-use and retaipl centers, office and industrial complexes, and multifamily and single-familuy residential communities. Sink was Mecklenburg Countuy Bar chairmanin 1986-87.