The Veterans Outreach Center will have to start looking for a new leader. Todd Baxter has announced he'll be leaving the position of executive director on April 14th, after spending three years in that position.
Baxter notes that he was recently given a clean bill of health after a bout of cancer, and with his youngest son about to graduate high school, he and his wife felt it was time to take a look at future possibilities.
“I was just diagnosed seven months ago with cancer, and just a couple of weeks ago I was cleared with the cancer and that gave us a whole new perspective on life of what me and the family could do, and we’re empty-nesters pretty soon…to be able to take advantage of looking at life in a whole new direction and seeing what we want to do as a family, next,” he told WXXI News.
Baxter feels he has left the VOC in good shape.
“We’ve moved the VOC from a place where we were actually living off a line of credit for a while to a place where we’re very sound financially, well supported by the community, the staff is at 100 percent, they’re well trained. So as my mission at the Veterans Outreach Center, I see that complete, we are good to go there.”
Before joining the Veterans Outreach Center, Baxter was police chief in Greece. He had also been with the Rochester Police Department before that, and spent 22 years in the army.
He says the VOC will start the process of looking for a new leader in the near future.
