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OCHS from page 1A
OCHS was forced to
completely
reconstitute
its procedures for select-
ing board members after a
2017 Oregon Department
of Justice inquiry into
management
practices
within the nonprofit.
The ODJ made a num-
ber of recommendations
to address failings within
the selection process and
other ways to better man-
age the shelter, which had
recently received signif-
icant financial contribu-
tions.
One of the most im-
portant suggestions was
the hiring of a permanent
executive director and a
full-time shelter manager.
Both positions were filled,
with Marina Lewis taking
prepare your site, plant seedlings,
and maintain the site. Visit online at
www.siuslaw.org and click the “En-
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and “Place Orders” links.
The free native plants will be avail-
able for pick up on Saturday, Feb. 6,
2021 at multiple locations through-
out the area.
COVID safety measures will be in
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picking up by appointment. We will
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ation Appleseed.
over as shelter manager in
August 2018, but resigning
four months later in De-
cember. Mark Curran was
then hired as executive di-
rector in January 2019, but
resigned less than a year
later in December.
The position of shelter
manager was left vacant
and a second nation-wide
search for an executive
director was initiated, re-
sulting in the hiring of
Brown last May.
Curran and some OCHS
board members were vo-
cal in their criticism of the
actions of the board at the
time.
Curran commented on
the latest resignation by
Brown in an email to the
Siuslaw News.
“I haven’t met Charles
but, in my opinion, his
résumé is pretty strong
and he’s done some good
things in his few months
with OCHS. I’m sure
Shauna [Robbers] will put
this down as ‘business as
usual,’ but for an organiza-
tion to have two qualified
executive directors resign
in the space of 12 months
should raise alarm bells.
As a Lifetime Member of
OCHS, the board’s actions
are deeply worrying to
me,” Curran said.
Siuslaw News received
an email from Brown’s
teenaged daughter, Madi,
who shared her disap-
pointment with the sit-
uation at OCHS and the
damage she claims was
done to her father.
“I got to help him hand
out pet food to homeless
people, make cat boxes
for feral cats, and even got
to see him put himself in
danger to rescue a kitten,”
she wrote. “But I also got to
see him get maligned, lied
to and lied about. I got to
see pieces of my dad torn
out, I got to hear my dad
telling me that ‘the truth
wins out, and if you work
with passion for good you
can never go wrong.’ We
will be packing up soon
and leaving Florence, but I
will never forget the lesson
I learned here — unfortu-
nately not the lesson my
Dad was trying teach me.”
Siuslaw News has at-
tempted to contact Charles
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Brown for a statement
regarding his resignation
but, as of press time Tues-
day, has not received a re-
sponse.
Robbers has also not re-
sponded to a request for
additional
information
regarding Brown’s resig-
nation, or the concerns
raised by Curran and
Brown’s daughter.
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