FAIRFIELD – The executive director of a county homeless services agency resigned last week after conflict of interest concerns arose surrounding a $1.8 million contract to operate the county’s coordinated entry system for homeless services.
Community Action Partnership of Solano Joint Powers Authority, or CAP Solano JPA, Executive Director DeShawn Waters resigned on Feb. 23. The agency’s program manager Michael Wilson was appointed interim executive director. Wilson said after a board meeting Friday that he could not speak on whether a performance review led to Waters’ resignation.
The conflict of interest concerns were raised last year when the agency’s board of directors received a complaint from a member of a selection panel for the new coordinated entry contract that Waters, who served as the facilitator, had encouraged panelists to change their scores in favor of Abode Services, where he had worked less than a year prior…