Volunteers at Nevada's Spring Mountain Ranch State Park feel they've got a face-slap from the park department. They're stinging badly enough they've filed suit over the matter.
The volunteer group, Spring Mountain Ranch Docents, have worked for 38 years with the state to provide interpretive services for the park's natural and cultural history. Early this month the group received a termination letter from a State Park's administrator, David Morrow, advising them that the state is terminating their work and farming it out to its own "Volunteer in Parks" program.
The State cites problems with the group, including, "internal personnel matters, discord among the membership, and the cost of providing workers' compensation insurance," as the reason for cutting the decades-old agreement with the group. The docents representatives have filed suit, asking the courts to stop the State from cancelling their work agreement, and fire back that the State's 'reasons,' are "categorically false."
The docent group also maintains that the real losers, should the contract be terminated, will be members of the public who will no longer have daily access to the park's Ranch House and that the living history program will be, "lost forever."
The State has not yet responded to the suit.
Source: vegasinc.com photo: Nevada State Parks
2 comments:
big deal - I can be fired at my job for any reason (most people at "at-will employees"). If they care about the public learning the history of this place, they should volunteer.
The first word of the story said that they were "volunteers."
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