The former executive director of the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts was issued a summons for misdemeanor theft, concluding months of investigation into the organization’s finances following her resignation in April.
Christina Brusig, 31, of Rifle, is scheduled to appear in Garfield County Court on Dec. 4 on a Class 1 misdemeanor theft charge, Glenwood Police Chief Terry Wilson said in a three-sentence news release Friday evening.
In January, the art center board confronted Brusig with numerous staff concerns, including of her management of the nonprofitap finances. Eventually the board told her that she could either resign or be terminated, according to Kate McRaith, the former art center board president.
McRaith said in August that Brusig had consistently presented a positive picture of the organization’s finances, so the board never doubted it. But after her departure in early April, the board started finding the hard numbers on the art center’s debt and unpaid bills.
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