WOONSOCKET – Vasiliki Milios, the interim executive director at the Woonsocket Housing Authority, resigned from her position on Monday, effective immediately. Milios has been serving as executive director since late 2021.
Milios told The Breeze that her reason for resigning goes back to not being on the same page as the rest of the board.
“It was time for me to move on,” she said.
Her resignation comes after a late January meeting in which Board Chairperson Michael Houle asked Milios to recuse herself during an executive session. During that meeting, the WHA had also decided on extending their search for executive director, saying the candidates they did have were not qualified.
Reached on Tuesday, Houle said he has no comment on the resignation.
Qualifications matter; by now it's clear to everyone that the WHA suffers greatly from a lack of competent leadership. The Chairman of the Board was appointed to that position due to clearly partisan reasons and we have seen the result of that, time after time. Mr. Houle is a disgraced former police chief with zero education or training relative to his appointed position and it comes as no surprise to me that the current executive director abandoned her position, for who would want to work under such a dysfunctional board? The residents of the Housing Authority deserve better.
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Qualifications matter; by now it's clear to everyone that the WHA suffers greatly from a lack of competent leadership. The Chairman of the Board was appointed to that position due to clearly partisan reasons and we have seen the result of that, time after time. Mr. Houle is a disgraced former police chief with zero education or training relative to his appointed position and it comes as no surprise to me that the current executive director abandoned her position, for who would want to work under such a dysfunctional board? The residents of the Housing Authority deserve better.
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