UPDATED: Troubled Disabilities Agency Has Board Disbanded

UPDATED 4:00 p.m. Wednesday

Former Chair Roxie Kincannon released the following statement in response to the Greenville County Council's disbanding of the Board of Directors Disabilities and Special Needs Board:

“We’re discouraged by tonight’s county council decision. While state law provides that only the governor can disband the board, more importantly, the county’s Disabilities and Special Needs Board has been handed to a state agency fraught with the same problems we worked so diligently and successfully to fix in Greenville County. Lives are at stake, and our board has no other motive than the health and welfare of the 2200 clients we serve. Our hope is that the financial turnaround and improved client service we generated will be recognized and that cooler heads will prevail before permanent damage is done to the agency charged with caring for our county’s special needs residents.”

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WSPA has reported that the Greenville County Council passed an emergency ordinance at Tuesday night's meeting to disband the board of directors of the county’s Disabilities and Special Needs (DSN) Board.

The DSN board came under fire earlier this year for. The agency has also been plagued by allegations of abuse and financial mismanagement.

A temporary five-member board has been put in place, and the state’s Department of Disabilities and Special Needs will manage the agency until those members are named.