Apparent financial impropriety at Kern Regional Center in Southern California has put the management of the Center under scrutiny. The regional center serves some 6,300 developmentally disabled people in the community through a
host of different services, and the concern is now that those programs could be negatively affected by the fallout.
KGET is reporting that "Several top managers were let go a few months ago amid accusations
hundreds of thousands of dollars were inappropriately pumped into their
retirement accounts.
"It's public money, but new C.E.O. Duane Law won't talk about what happened.
"And, several organizations that partner with the non-profit say Law is taking the regional center in the wrong direction."
(see: Kern Regional Center troubles on www.kget.com)
The report from KGET goes on to say:
"KRC is fully funded by the state and spends in the neighborhood of $130
million a year for Kern, Inyo and Mono counties on services for the
disabled. Social programs like Inclusion Films that gives local autistic
teens a taste of the industry.
"But, a fight behind the scenes of the Kern Regional Center threatens to derail things."
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