Three supervisors at an Amherst, Massachusetts, homeless shelter are making good on their promise to leave because changes they demanded didn't happen.
In June, three senior employees at Craig's Place sent a list of demands to the board that oversees it.
Among other things, they wanted the board to remove a member they viewed as problematic, and develop a clear set of bylaws, as well as a fundraising plan.
And they said it all had to be done by August 1.
Jade Lovett is the departing executive director of Craig's Doors, the nonprofit that runs the shelter.
"We had tried a lot of other different ways to hold the board accountable, and nothing was really changing, so we sort of decided to give them a bit of an ultimatum," she said.
Lovett said she and her colleagues' last day will be Thursday.
As a result, a resource center where the homeless could get help securing transportation and applying for benefits will have to close — at least for now.
But Gerry Weiss, the president of the board of Craig's Doors, said he's reasonably confident the shelter it operates will reopen as scheduled in November.
"We have a lot of support from the state, a lot of support from other agencies, so there's a lot of people who want this shelter to open in the fall as usual," he said.
