A former heritage trust chairwoman has accused her fellow trustees of being “dysfunctional”, following her resignation. Former Lawrence Chinese Camp Charitable Trust chairwoman Adrienne Shaw said this week she had left the trust as she felt fellow board members lacked the “time, energy and passion” to move the heritage site’s ambitions forward. Her resignation called into question plans announced last year to develop the 150-year-old gold-rush camp into a multipurpose visitor complex, for an estimated $4.5million. Geraldine resident Ms Shaw had been instrumental in driving the plans and establishing a target date of 2025. In a July 27 email to friends and associates, she said she had resigned “due to ongoing differences in opinion and styles”. However, Ms Shaw said she felt she had been “ambushed” by other trustees during a recent annual meeting. “I’m a positive, solution-focused person and, stepping away as I now have, I can see that perhaps clashed with entrenched dysfunctional elements of the board.
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