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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
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Rich Mays, the interim program operations that she is
county manager, said the union’s not familiar or experienced in
“allegations are concerning handling. The union also claims
Union staff have taken a “no enough that some sort of inves- she has expanded her supervi-
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Union staff complain about
director, claiming staff morale to do it on a timely basis.”
Issa Simpson, a
and the public perception of the
a lack of training and a
agency have steadily declined council representative
work environment that
under the director’s management. for Oregon AFSCME,
has contributed to high
Michele Crump-Hart, the said union staff had pre-
turnover.
complained
clinical director since 2014, is viously
“Staff have been
responsible for clinical deci- about the agency’s man-
‘scapegoated’ for fail-
sions and programs and is part agement, pointing to a
ures in clinical pro-
of the core leadership team. petition last spring and
grams or errors due to
Clatsop County contracts with a resignation letter last
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Michele
the private agency for men- fall from a former care Crump-Hart of proper program sys-
tal-health services, so, like many coordinator.
tems and resources,”
Simpson said the union — the union wrote in the March let-
county employees, staff are rep-
resented by Oregon AFSCME, a part of the American Federation ter. “Ms. Crump-Hart reminds
of State, County and Munici- people often that CBH ‘runs
labor union.
In a March letter to Clatsop pal Employees — represents on her license’ yet she has been
Behavioral Healthcare and the 53 of the 71 workers at Clat- unwilling to take responsibility
county, the union said Crump- sop Behavioral Healthcare. The for systemic problems.”
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Over the past year, Clatsop
accountable and step down or Crump-Hart, she said, was 30-4. Behavioral Healthcare has come
“Our members are feeling under increased scrutiny over
be removed from her position.”
Nick Benas, the director very strongly that there needs whether the agency has ade-
of business operations at Clat- to be some change in manage- quately responded to public and
sop Behavioral Healthcare, said ment style and communication private concerns about gaps in
the agency is working with the in order for them to provide the mental-health services.
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Law enforcement leaders have
an independent review of the the community,” Simpson said. described a mental health system
The union describes Crump- that is in “crisis” and “broken.”
union’s claims.
“Clatsop Behavioral Health- Hart as a manager who does not
Sumuer Watkins, the execu-
care works hard to provide a welcome feedback on her clini- tive director of Clatsop Behav-
good work environment for all cal decisions and who has made ioral Healthcare, sent out an
staff and takes any allegations abusive and inappropriate com- apology email to community
to the contrary very seriously,” ments about the professional leaders last June acknowledg-
performance of staff who have ing that she had heard about
Benas said in an email.
Benas said an independent questioned her approach.
consistent feedback that she had
Crump-Hart, the union not been displaying appropriate
review would “determine the
merit of the union’s claims, as claims, has issued directives on leadership skills.
well as to understand why any
related concerns were not sub-
stantively raised by staff prior
to the union leadership initiating
this formal action.”
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
Imagine seeing this as you go
for a jog: a jet-black, nearly
6-foot-long creature with a
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and teeth sharp as razors. With
lifeless eyes, it looks like it
emerged from Steven Spiel-
berg’s imagination.
That’s what Melinda Sage
Bruton found Wednesday as
she headed south on a run to
Arcadia Beach.
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woman thought it was a barra-
cuda washed ashore.
But after sending a photo
to the Seaside Aquarium, she
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two or three reported each year,
according to Keith Chandler, the
aquarium’s general manager.
“Those are just the ones
reported,” Chandler said.
“They get devoured pretty fast
by gulls and other scavengers.”
After examining Bruton’s
photos, Chandler said the
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age to its jaw,” indicating it
could have been the victim of
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“Look at those teeth —
they’re pointed backwards,”
Chandler said. “Once they get
hold of something with those,
it’s a one-way ticket.”
Melissa Keyser, program
coordinator of the Haystack
Rock Awareness Program, deter-
mined the discovery was a long-
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submerges as far down as 6,000
feet below the surface of the sea
but may occasionally surface.
“They can reach up to 6 feet
in length and are very common
off of the Oregon Coast,” Key-
Melinda Sage Bruton
A lancetfish washed to the shore at Arcadia Beach.
Melinda Sage Bruton
There are usually a few reported sightings every year.
ser said. “While they are some-
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beaches, there are usually a few
reported sightings each year.”
Bruton is an astute observer
of sea life.
Last year she photo-
graphed what she described as
a “sort of jelly creature,” later
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ing up on the shore. The salp
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type of tunicate — a marine
invertebrate — which, Bruton
said, “is surprisingly closer
in relation to humans than to
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On the same day Bruton
found the salp, a small white
shark also washed up.
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from her sightings. “The
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tic power the ocean brings
to the local communities
living along the coastline
welcome a reminder to the
travelers visiting here of
our responsibility to main-
tain its home to the many
marvelous and abundant
creatures; to respect; to
look after and protect,”
she said in an email.
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