Taylor was placed on leave from her position at the Clay County Development Corp. during a national uproar last month after she posted a racist remark about Michelle Obama online.

Taylor is set to return to her position as executive director of the private, nonprofit CCDC on Dec. 23, according to a letter from acting director Leslie McGlothin to the West Virginia Bureau of Senior Services.

The Gazette reports that two CCDC board members, President Eunice Thomas and secretary/treasurer Donald Holcomb, decided to suspend Taylor from her job when the original scandal, in which she called Obama an “Ape in heels” on Facebook, garnered national attention and public outcry. Neither member has responded to repeated calls from the Gazette, which also states that repeated calls to Taylor and the CCDC have also gone unanswered.

The Clay County Free Press has made repeated calls to the CCDC, and no one has answered the telephone since the scandal broke.

According to the Gazette  article, the CCDC is overseen by a 12-member board of directors, one of whom is Taylor. Board members are unpaid and vote on decisions that affect the company’s programs. The CCDC provides services and financial assistance to elderly and low-income Clay County residents.

The board also sets all salaries. According to tax returns filed by the CCDC, Taylor was paid $75,000 in 2008 and $83,000 in 2014. The organization received about $1.5 million in federal funding and $363,000 in state funding in 2014.

According to 2014 U.S. Census statistics, one in four Clay County residents is living below the poverty level.

According to the Gazette, Taylor was briefly removed from her job at the CCDC twice before becoming director in 2007. The article reports that Taylor and two other employees lost their jobs once in 1999 when the CCDC board was restructured; Taylor and the others were ordered reinstated by a judge. The article also reports that Taylor said she was removed from her job again in 2002 after she was accused of “pocketing fundraising dollars, but was hired back after a few months.”

In 2009, the CCDC listed job requirements for the executive director position that included, at minimum, a bachelor’s degree with 10 years’ experience. The article reports that Taylor said in a 2008 deposition that she attended Clay County High School and had no college education. “Prior to joining the Clay Development staff in 1989, she was a cosmetologist,” the article said.

The article also said that CCDC staff members refused to give the Gazette  the most recent copy of the bylaws. It also says that Taylor has been sued twice by CCDC employees for wrongful termination. She was sued by Brenda Baird, who worked as a bookkeeper from 2000-2007, who said that Taylor fired her in retaliation for telling a board member about questionable raises that were double the standard amount and some employees getting bonus checks. In her lawsuit, Baird also said she found discrepancies on tax forms produced by Taylor.

The lawsuit was settled out of court in 2009, and Baird declined to comment to the Gazette, citing a gag order.

The CCDC was also sued last year by Janet Fitzwater, who worked as secretary for the company from 1998-2010. That lawsuit was dismissed in March 2015.