How to rein in LA’s shameless nonprofit CEOs – Latest News
Talk about unseemly mission creep.
The nonprofit Tarzana Treatment Centers was established a long time in the past to deal with dependancy in the Los Angeles space. Yet whistleblowers now describe an group consumed with billing — not serving to.
The California Post reported Monday that two former Tarzana staff detailed excessive strain to put earnings first, to the detriment of sufferers and taxpayers.
At the identical time, Tarzana’s CEO, Albert Senella, collected $2.36 million in wage final 12 months alone and lives giant in a palatial $3.7 million, six-bedroom, eight-bathroom unfold in Simi Valley.
What’s fallacious with this image?
An aerial image of CEO Albert Senella’s palatial $3.7 million, six-bedroom, eight-bathroom unfold in Simi Valley. CA Post
LA space taxpayers shouldn’t be taken to the cleaners by nonprofit executives. And affected person wants shouldn’t be subordinate to what seem to be personal financial pursuits.
Clearly, town and county need to tighten spending controls and supply significant oversight of this and different nonprofits that gather tens of millions of {dollars} from taxpayers every year. Mayor Karen Bass, the City Council and the county Board of Supervisors must also discover setting caps on nonprofit govt compensation tied to taxpayer money.
Mayor Karen Bass, the City Council and the county Board of Supervisors must also discover setting caps on nonprofit govt compensation tied to taxpayer money. Getty Images
This is hardly the one instance of nonprofit CEO entitlement. In one other latest instance, Carol Adelkoff, the pinnacle of 1736 Family Crisis Center in LA, collected more than $1.6 million in pay over the previous two years — whereas luxuriating in Hawaii.
Serving the downtrodden ought to be a noble calling, not a path to self-indulgence, and people who deal with it because the latter ought to search for different strains of work.
According to inner paperwork and messages, the Tarzana whistleblowers wrote issues like, “She [a supervisor] is telling me to lie about my billing” and “The only thing they f—ing care about is billing.”
Yikes.
The insiders additionally described sufferers rushed by the method to generate most income, not healthy outcomes.
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And there have been different purple flags: In 2022, as an illustration, a county audit discovered “significant fiscal and administrative non-compliance issues” in a contract that paid Tarzana about $26 million over two years. Yet the taxpayer {dollars} keep proper on flowing.
Is it any surprise town and county spend almost $3 billion a 12 months on homelessness applications –– solely to see more homelessness? Per the latest official depend, homelessness jumped 3.4% in town and 1.2% in LA County.
LA officers need to finish the homeless industrial complicated that entrenches homelessness, dependency and dysfunction. Homeless and therapy nonprofits have an incentive not to repair the issue, however to maintain it (or worse) — as a result of more struggling means more funding.
The unhappy factor about Tarzana is that LA desperately wants to shift away from its emphasis on “housing first,” which absurdly posits that plopping addicts in motels, at huge taxpayer expense, will someway remedy the homeless disaster.
The metropolis and county ought to as an alternative tackle the causes of homelessness, which are sometimes dependancy and mental sickness.
So “treatment first”? Yes, completely.
But not therapy that prioritizes money grabs over rehab.
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