Co-founder and site coordinator Eric Pattin announced he will be leaving that role at West Seattle’s only tiny-house encampment later this month to work in a new capacity with camp operator LIHI, as it opens the Executive Hotel Pacific enhanced shelter, which has 150 rooms, and will have intensive case management and be focused on rapid rehousing. LIHI’s Andrew Constantino and Josh Castle discussed other staff matters. They’re also hiring a new case manager and hopr that will happen this week. The camp also will have an evening security person and a weekend “keyholder” who will handle emergency situations. The new site coordinator will work Monday-Friday, a change from the past live-in/always-there mode in which that position – held until now by camp co-founders – operated. Constantino, who himself had a background as an on-site staff person and former resident at another tiny-house village, was adamant that it’s a better way to operate, both for the person who holds the job and for the camp. Committee members worried that some of the “magic sauce” of CSC has been its self-management, operated/led by residents. Constantino said he appreciates those values and principles, but a “dynamic” has changed, including expectations that come with city funding. And he said the founders were “rare individuals” who have moved on and will move on, and there’s no guarantee someone like that will re-emerge. He feels the “live-in staff person” can actually be a destabilizing factor.