WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Island Transit officials hope that hiring a competent, thoughtful executive director will be key to steering the agency down the right road and resolving serious problems with morale among the rank and file.
Jessie Stensland
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Sherry Phay, the longest-serving current Coupeville school board member, announced this week on social media that she is resigning from her elected position after the July board meeting.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: The town of Coupeville’s former clerk/treasurer recently filed a tort claim accusing Mayor Molly Hughes of unwanted physical touching, creation of a hostile work environment based on gender bias, retaliation and wrongful termination.
SOUTH WHIDBEY RECORD: The South Whidbey School District joined an ACLU lawsuit against the state which argues that the “Parents’ Bill of Rights” violates the state constitution because it doesn’t disclose contradictions with existing laws.
The Whidbey News-Times reports: Island Transit board members continue to reevaluate routes and other operations in the wake of their decision to fire the executive director.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Depending on who you ask, political machination or paranoia is at the heart of recent turmoil on a unique board of volunteers appointed by four government partners that are supposed to cooperatively manage Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve.
The Whidbey News-Times reports: Controversy over secretive raises for several administrators led the board of Island Transit to fire the executive director and place the Human Resources director on leave this week.