SUNRIVER, Ore. -- It's been a week since the Sunriver Service District Board of Directors fired the police chief, and they met Friday to discuss the future of the department, with some concerned residents looking on -- and speaking out.

The board officially announced Deschutes County sheriff's Capt. Marc Mills will serve as interim chief.

The board says it will find a permanent replacement at some point, but the focus Friday was on changing the police department's philosophy.

That new philosophy is exactly what some Sunriver homeowners want to know, but say it's just one of the items the board refuses to speak about publicly.

Last week's firing of Police Chief Mike Kennedy surprised many in the resort community and has raised concerns with some homeowners about the honesty of their leadership.

The board says they decided the department needs a change in policing philosophy, but some say this isn't a good enough answer, and at Friday afternoon's special meeting, they posed more questions.

"It's a consistent problem we have," said Sunriver homeowner Dave Lewis. "I believe in Sunriver. As homeowners, we don't get answers. We get a very short period of time to make a comment to our public officials, and most times they cross their arms, look back at us, and you get no answers."

"It's something like today, where there's a philosophy issue where they can't state what their philosophy is, what their counter-philosophy is, what the real contradiction really is coming from," said another homeowner, Rebecca Kossler. "You never really get any straight answers from anybody."

In a town with around 1,200 permanent residents, some homeowners say the way the police force is running right now negatively affects the image of the resort community.

In the summer, with thousands of visitors coming and going, Sunriver is a huge draw for tourism in Central Oregon. So, homeowners are speaking out.

"I feel Sunriver as a whole and a lot of other community members agree that there's an extreme lack of transparency with what goes on with the governing bodies, the Sunriver Homeowners Association, and the Service District" said Kossler.

"We always feel that we don't get answers for things that are going on in, things with public opinion, with decisions being made," she added.

Members of the board would not talk on camera with NewsChannel 21 before or after the meeting.

They said they are working on putting together a new philosophy for the Police Department and have a draft started. For now, some community members continue to ask questions about the way things are being done in Sunriver.