Regarding "St. Louis County health director sued for civil rights, Sunshine Law violations" (March 27): Every time we turn around, it seems someone in government is being incompetent, unethical and impenetrable to positive directions or ethical behavior.
So now comes Dr. Kanika Cunningham, head of the St. Louis County Health Department, denying there was a plan to euthanize animals in the county animal shelter, which she denied even though the plan was found and reported by employee Rhonda Belics. Then, as the Post-Dispatch's Joe Holleman reported, Belics was coerced into a search of her car.
The rest of the story is also disturbing: Cunningham laid off employees two weeks before presenting it to the board. She also managed to get her daughter hired. She released all volunteers from a program helping the animals.
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The county animal shelter was poorly run and was unnecessarily euthanizing animals before the Animal Protective Association straightened it all out. Too bad they're not still running it with the volunteer program being utilized.
At any rate Cunningham apparently does not have the integrity to be worthy of her $198,000 salary. The county should get rid of her and replace her before more lawsuits hook the county taxpayers into having to pay rightful employees and others who have been obviously wronged.
Jerry Hutter
Florissant
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