SEQUIM — After 11 years at the Sequim Senior Services Center, George Woodruff has resigned as director to take a position in Chimacum.

Woodruff, a Diamond Point resident, now is manager of the Tri Area Community Center — a subsidiary of the Olympic Community Action Programs.

His Sequim departure mid-month was abrupt, coming six weeks before the end of his annual contract, said Barbara Ann Montgomery, president of the senior center’s board of directors.

But she said she understood his decision was difficult and partly based on the organization’s inability to pay him the salary he felt he deserved.

“He has done a lot for the center over the years,” Montgomery said.

“We have no hard feelings, and we wish him well. We were just sorry he left before December.”

Filling in as director

Montgomery and the other board members are filling in for Woodruff until they re-draft a job description and hire a replacement, probably not until the first of next year, she said.

Woodruff said he enjoyed his years at the center, the past three of which he spent as director.

“It was time to move to a different position,” he said.

“I think I accomplished what I set out to do there, and what they asked me to do.”

The Sequim center operates only on donations, unlike the city-supported Port Angeles Senior Center and other senior centers that receive public money.