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NECCA executive director, board president to step down after turbulent week Local News. BRATTLEBORO — The executive director and president of the board of the New England Center for Circus Arts are resigning from their posts, amid an uproar this week over the terminations of the co- founders, according to executive director Michael Helmstadter. Helmstadter will step down in two weeks and the board will begin a new search for his replacement, he said in a phone call this afternoon. And Elizabeth Harris- Warner, the board president, will also leave, effective immediately, Helmstadter added. Her role will be replaced by Mel Martin, a former board member who was brought back on Monday after a string of resignations in recent months, he added.
Helmstadter said he felt he needed to resign because of the persisting controversy surrounding his role.“Rightly or wrongly, I have become a polarizing figure, and my concern is to diffuse as much tension as humanly possible within the organization,” he said. I’m committed to the organization continuing on, and I’m not going to let my presence get in the way of that.”However, the arrangement won't change the termination of the organization's co- founders, Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion, and the contractual offer made to them Monday remains the same, Helmstadter said. The change comes at a time of crisis for the organization, which provides circus lessons to more than 2,0. On Monday, NECCA's two co- founders, who are twin sisters, were informed that they were terminated through a pair of emails, according to Forchion. It was a 5- 1 decision with one person absent, said Patricia Howell, a member of the center’s public relations and development committee. The sisters, who were at the time serving as artistic directors, were offered an option to stay on in a contractual basis as instructors.
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But in an interview today, Forchion said that she and her sister are not interested in the offer. The terminations produced instant backlash, both locally and beyond.
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Several petitions — including one that appeared to garner support from circus performers around the world — have railed against the terminations. And a website — www. The announcement of the resignations came an hour after about 2. The letter alleged a lengthy communications breakdown between members of the board, and issues including "irregularities in pay and pay rate", safety issues, and bullying of staff members."After months of working to communicate effectively with the Board and leadership team, we feel that NECCA is no longer a place that upholds its founding values or supports our values as coaches, staff, or community members," it said. It gave board members a deadline of July 2. The letter was submitted at a rally held this afternoon outside the organization’s new trapezium building, on Putney Road, expressing support for the sisters and opposing their terminations.
That rally turned into a street protest in downtown Brattleboro shortly afterward. The exact reasons behind Smith's and Forchion's firings remain unclear. Helmstadter said he is still legally bound to not discuss the details due to privacy restrictions surrounding personnel. Martin, in an interview earlier this week, said the same. Reaction to news of the resignations was varied. Informed by a reporter of the development around 5: 3.
Brattleboro's Main Street burst into sustained cheers. But when later told that the change does not immediately affect the termination of the sisters, many coaches had a more sobering take."I'm relieved that we seem to have made an impact, and that change is being made," said Zeb Galipeau, one of the head coaches at the organization who added his name to the strike Friday. We're still in a tenuous situation."But he said that the news was only an initial step."I'm not even close to 1. We've got a long road to go to reach 1. He said that the staff would continue to demand that the twins be reinstated, and added that even if that happens, he still thinks the board needs to resign.
It is unclear what effect the announcement might have on the strike itself. But another coach, Victoria Quine, said Friday that she would continue the strike until the board enacts all the requested changes."While I am heartened and encouraged by Michael Helmstadter's resignation and Elizabeth Warner stepping down as President of the Board, this is not sufficient," she said, adding that the board had simply "juggled around the roles of board members" instead of leaving themselves. Quine, who has been working at the organization since last year and is a former student, said that she will resign if the board doesn't make all changes by the 2. In a statement Friday evening, Forchain’s sister, Elsie Smith, agreed that more needs to be done, saying the announcement is “simply a reorganization of the same leadership team that we have been disappointed in.”Smith added that the opportunity the board presented to the twins to allow them to work on a contractual basis is “not a real offer” and that they are only interested in a collaborative role within the organization. And Forchion said much depends on how the board approaches the staff in negotiations moving forward."I’m cautiously optimistic," she said in an interview shortly after the announcement. I want assurance. Watch The Calling Online Mic.
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I think the community needs assurance that the coaches team and the community are going to be a part of the next two weeks' conversation."But Helmstadter sees it differently. Speaking Friday, he said the emotions of the week have turned vitriolic, adding that he had received several text messages "of a threatening nature."Within that climate, the onus falls on the organization's staff to make the first overtures, Helmstadter argued.“I think the basic statement that the board and I are all committed to finding a solution, whatever that might be, still stands,” he said. But the coaches need to actually enter into dialogue.".. Watch Powder Room Online Metacritic.
It’s very difficult to have a one- sided conversation," he added. Lynn Barrett, a public relations consultant for the organization, said Friday’s resignations are meant to address some of the demands, and create an opportunity for all sides to move forward.“We are trying to do the right thing here and trying to save NECCA,” said Barrett, using an acronym for the organization. The right thing is (for the sisters) to accept the offer, (for the) coaches to agree to do their jobs, and (for us to) work together for a bigger, better NECCA,” she said. Neither Harris- Warner nor Martin were immediately available for comment.