Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Infamous Tompkins County SPCA Deficit

As you have probably seen there has been a response to the Houston story on Winograd's background. In that response Winograd makes it very clear that there was no deficit when he left. According to the minutes of the Rancho Cucamonga City Council, Winograd was asked about this deficit in operations. A Tompkins County SPCA Boardmember confirmed the deficit to the City of Rancho.

His response was it was due to adding an additional shelter, requiring more services, and stated that the interim director gave himself a raise. The interim director was a board member filling in. In fact, Winograd was the receiver of a generous raise the first year of service.

So here is an example of how Winograd distorts his credentials, if you want to call deceit that.

http://www.ci.rancho-cucamonga.ca.us/pdf_agendas/cc040605m.pdf Page 16

2 comments:

Jim Tantillo said...

I was the interim director of the Tompkins County SPCA after Nathan Winograd left. If he or anyone else ever stated "that the interim director gave himself a raise," then that statement is false. Only a board of directors can set the compensation for an executive director, and my compensation for the entire time that I served was in fact set by the board of directors. Fwiw I continued to teach at Cornell for the year I ran the shelter.

HonestyHelps said...

I was there when that statement was made and so were others. Just reporting what was said. So Winograd lied, what else is new?