WGRZ.com wrote today, SPCA of Niagara Report; “Childish Behavior”, Lack of Oversight,
In part of her report, Carr writes, “It’s clear that the NCSPCA is dysfunctional in many ways. Without standard operating procedures, without careful record keeping and record retrieval, without trust of one another, without a clear chain or command, with any strategies to improve, this organization will continue to disappoint and enrage the community,”
She continues, “there is an overwhelming culture of distrust at the shelter. Some staff distrust the Executive Director, the Executive Director distrusts many of the board members, many board members distrust the Executive Director and some staff and volunteers distrust some staff and staff distrusts some volunteers. Everyone seems to distrust someone associated with the SPCA. They gossip, pass on written complaints about each other to one another, try to get each other fired, go behind backs of one another to people in authority and make complaints. The evaluation team has witnessed this rather childish behavior at all levels of the organization, by board members, the Executive Director, staff members, and volunteers.”
Charlie Specht wrote for the Buffalo News yesterday, Probe details ‘horrific’ animal cruelty at Niagara SPCA: Report by Erie County counterpart details ‘excruciatingly painful’ euthanasia, Continue reading
is popular with some elected & appointed officials “We’ve been chosen. Now
go away & don’t ask any questions about what we are doing until it’s time
to vote again.” I don’t think all the individuals share the attitude,
but some do & over time it has become standard procedure. Hopefully,
as more citizens pay attention & ask for more insight procedure will
adjust. There is a reason for open meetings & sunshine laws & it’s not
so citizens can listen to or read about decisions based on information
they are not allowed to hear or observe.
Another issue here is that there will be no public hearing on this issue
unless someone ASKS for it. Without a hearing, it just goes forward
with no other public information about being presented. Anyone may ask
for a hearing, but I would especially think that there are people who
really need a functional system that is not just focused on people
who have access to Medicaid as a payment source due to illness or
disability. Requesting such a hearing before January 24 would give the
opportunity to have all this information presented and for questions to
be asked and answered.
