There is something wrong at the museum in Sequim! The wrong people are in control and the assets are being spent at an alarming rate. It appears approximately $250,000 from the savings has been spent in three years without replacement.

Now management wants to sell museum property, basically to pay out $139,000 for paid staff, which includes two expensive, “out of town” consultants. This kind of spending is not the Sequim way of staying local to conduct business. MAC lost $110,000 last year on paid staff of seven people.

There is only a small group of people who can stop this mismanagement of the assets and that is the Board of Trustees. They have the power to stop this travesty! If they stand by and do nothing, they will wear the shame of the museum assets being gone. This includes our ancestors’ pictures, documents, collections, money, copyrights, research access and property.

This Sequim Museum was started by pioneers and volunteers from Sequim (and many surrounding areas) but will end with highly paid staff with no investment in our local history.

Hopefully, the board will be able to save the museum before all the money and real estate are gone forever. We suggest a smaller version of the “Second Chance Consignment” could be reopened at the DeWitt Center to continue the incoming revenue and be manned by volunteers.

Again, it is up to the Board of Trustees to stand up for the museum or continue to ignore what is happening.

We are MAC members.

Jerry Brownfield

Louie Rychlik

Lester Ellis

Sequim