By Nicole Montesano • Staff Writer • 

YCAP ousts Mary Starrett from board; commissioners upset by move

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Local Yokel

Sounds like a back and forth power trip. Time to reconsider leadership.

MBert70

Bye Felicia!

Dan

Commissioner Mary Starrett acquitted herself well.

And Newberg Mayor Bill Rosacker's testimony was first class.

Megan

Bad weather is always a possibility here. An organization whose mission is to serve the most vulnerable among us SHOULD HAVE HAD A PLAN, and that plan should not have been to just close all services when people needed warm shelter and food most desperately.

If their goal was to avoid further attention and critique, this move seems destined to backfire.

Drew

YCAP and its leadership have some serious explaining to do!

tagup

No doubt the issue(s)of the closure and lack of communication should be a topic of discussion for the board....but should not include surprise guests.....Starrett is (was) a liaison and not in charge...if she wanted to include anyone in a meeting, it should have been added to the board meeting agenda.
She wanted a gotcha moment rather than resolve the actual issues.
If Starrett wont be straight with other board members, she should be replaced with someone who will.
I'm with YCAP on this one.

souders

Happy to have the NRA "away" from public agencies.

blackberry

Just more Starrett drama. She has nothing positive to add to anything - ever. So, like a little kid, she thrives on attention (even if its negative) and creates drama to draw the attention to herself. Once an actor, always an actor.

blackberry

Look at that pompous grin. Don't think for one minute that she didn't know the camera was on her. Now she'll play the victim.

YamCoCan

While Starrett’s inclusion on the Board is odd since she doesn’t seem to believe in YCAP’s core mission, we should all worry about the lack of transparency and humility from YCAP. They received tens of millions of public dollars and should be open to inquiries about their agenda and operations. They should not recoil when someone wants to attend a meeting. And they should not say complaints can only come to the director - what if the complaint is about the ED?? Why does the Board even exist in this model? For 4-6 meetings a year to rubber stamp whatever the ED says. That’s not a heathy process. Policies intended to consolidate control is why whistleblower protections exist. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Oregonian

Imagine being forced to have someone as disagreeable as Starrett at your meetings.

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