RARA Accused of Gender Discrimination, Mishandled Funds

The Rochester Avon Recreation Authority is facing a lawsuit from a former employee alleging the organization would not give her a promotion because she is a woman, according to the Oakland Press.

Brandy Boyd of Rochester Hills, a RARA employee who had been fired, filed the suit in June, stating she had the qualifications for executive director of RARA, but the position instead went to a man, the report indicated. She also alleges the organization treated women differently than its male employees. 

In Boyd's lawsuit, she also claims discrepancies in the handling of funds held in a trust by the Community Foundation of Greater Rochester and states the executive director had been misappropriating the foundation's money, which had been earmarked for the special needs children's group SCAMP. 

A RARA employee who spoke with Patch on Friday on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisal, echoed Boyd's lawsuit's allegations about the handling of the SCAMP funds.

For more, read the Oakland Press report.