Ju’Coby Pittman: ‘Clara White Mission is strong’

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Nonprofit holds quality league aft 5 of 6 enforcement committee members resign

Clara White Mission CEO Ju’Coby Pitman speaks astatine a quality league Sunday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Clara White Mission leaders connected Sunday responded to allegations of CEO Ju’Coby Pittman’s deficiency of transparency implicit a COVID-19 outbreak.

“I’m present to stock with you contiguous that Clara White Mission is strong. It’s beardown y’all,” Pittman said astatine a quality league Sunday afternoon.

The quality league was held aft five of the six enforcement committee committee members of the Clara White Mission resigned. A missive obtained from Chairman Michelle Paul and signed by “resigning members of the Clara White Mission Executive Board” claimed that Pitman did not pass the committee of respective employees investigating affirmative for COVID-19 until 4 days aft it happened. Two unit members were hospitalized, including Pitman herself. The mission’s longtime chef, Keith Smith, died with the microorganism past month.

At Sunday’s quality conference, ngo leaders said determination was a flimsy hold successful reporting COVID-19 cases to the due unit members, but it was not intentional. They said the ngo stands coagulated and is acceptable to get backmost to serving the homeless.

Pittman said she, similar others astatine the mission, is inactive mourning the nonaccomplishment of Smith.

She said the allegations are false, slanderous, hurtful and damaging to the fiscal enactment of the mission.

“The committee members who interceeded did not recognize the process, and if you don’t recognize the process, I deliberation you request to inquire questions earlier you conscionable effort to instrumentality implicit and cripple the interaction of feeding the homeless. Those of you who cognize maine cognize that if I was retired of the hospital, that would not person happened,” said Pittman, who is besides a member of Jacksonville City Council.

Mission leaders said that moving guardant from this, they volition proceed to beryllium transparent arsenic they ever have.

The ngo requires everyone to deterioration masks and offers escaped vaccinations each Wednesday from 8 a.m. to noon.