Now that a court-approved Plumb Place Board of Directors is in place, board members are still working to finalize two key components of agency operations before its work resumes.
Board member Joelle Spotswood, a guest on KVOE’s Newsmaker segment Tuesday, says the board continues researching different services and a new location — or locations.
The United Way of the Flint Hills led the early stages of work to revive Plumb Place as an organization helping women in crisis situations. CEO Mickey Edwards says there is a high demand for crisis services at this time.
Edwards says Lyon County District Court has approved a 10-member board. The list of board members is online at KVOE.com. Financial information needs to get court approval before Plumb Place can resume its work.
Plumb Place operations have essentially been in a holding pattern since the agency shut down at the end of December 2020, the victim of better than $50,000 in missing funds over several years and an inability to avoid operations issues through the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. For almost a century, Plumb Place offered emergency shelter for women in crisis situations, later expanding its help to include transitional housing, case management, life skills education and therapy groups.
The property sold to Christine Stanley this past summer. Stanley has been renovating the home to make it an Airbnb.
Plumb Place Board of Directors members
*Jeremy Dorsey
*Brooke Drescher
*Bethany Frank
*Nicole Freeland
*Jennifer Horst
*Robyn Nienstedt-Whitaker
*Wendi Soendker
*Bobbie Sparks
*Joelle Spotswood
*Deone Wilson
