More context on this quote (to spur conversation): "There seemed to be no agreement on why HSP existed. She [Stitt] called HSP 'a multifaceted organization, fragmented with narrow perspectives that are often self-centered. HSP is an historical society long undernourished, and impoverished spiritually as well as physically.'"

Doesn't it seem Stitt was attempting to push the board to recognize it had to "man up" and declare its focus after eons of doing pretty much exact opposite? (That being enabling institutional sprawl a.k.a mission creep and setting up an untenable situation?)