Cayuga Centers will cut more than 300 jobs, including 14 at its headquarters in Auburn, after聽losing more than $20 million聽due to financial mismanagement and misconduct by its leadership.聽
Full coverage of turbulence at Cayuga Centers in Auburn
水果派AV's full coverage of Cayuga Centers since the Auburn human services agency's April 2025 announcement that it was laying off more than 200 employees.聽
The audit identified multiple instances of financial mismanagement and misconduct by the agency's former leadership, amounting to a loss of more than $20 million in 2024.
The human services agency headquartered in Auburn is laying off about a fifth of its staff.
Damien, age 5, seemed giddy with excitement as he left a Manhattan homeless shelter, sometimes running and skipping along the sidewalk accompanied by his wistful mother, a migrant from Ecuador. 鈥淲hat I want for him is a future,鈥 Kimberly Carchipulla said of her son, one of nearly 800,000 New York City public school students who headed off to class Thursday for their first day of the new school year. That is what school officials want, too, as the city's classrooms work to accommodate nearly 20,000 migrant children newly arrived in the U.S. 鈥 a number that could swell as record numbers of families cross the border from Mexico in hopes of gaining asylum.
Executive Editor David Wilcox can be reached at (315) 282-2245 or david.wilcox@lee.net.