By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, February 17 at 6:20 AM
Four times this week, PUB DEF has called the office of the Annie Malone Children and Family Service Center to find out the date of the next meeting of the board of directors. We've been denied that information all four times.
Apparently, employees at the center have been instructed not to give out such information, even though the center is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. They transfered us to the voicemail of Executive Director Richard King. King, according to his assistant, has been too busy to return the calls.
Despite knowing from our messages that we just wanted to know the date of the next meeting, King did not instruct his assistant to give us that simple information on our subsequent calls. The assistant denied that King had told her not to give us the date.
"You need to get that information from Mr. King," she said. "My job is to do work here not to give out information."
Call Richard King at (314) 531-0120. Maybe you'll have better luck than we did.
UPDATE: We finally caught up with Mr. King this afternoon. But we still didn't get the date of the next board of directors meeting. He refused to tell us, saying that we were "harassing" him and his employees.
We are reminded that Ald. Freeman Bosley, Sr. (3rd Ward) also complained of King not returning calls and failing to communicate with others. One would expect an organization which relies upon reputation and good will for funding to be more open. Mr. King has been on the job less than a year and has already done much to damage both of those things.
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