There was fallout from the handling of the recent demolition: Eli Takesi, the Atayal who was then the director of the IPB, stepped down from her position, which county chief executive Chou Hsi-wei then offered to Kolas Foting, a Hualien Amis and elder of the Kolamay Presbyterian Church.
拆遷過程引起反彈，時任原民局長、泰雅族人李玉蕙遭到撤換；縣長周錫瑋輾轉找上花蓮阿美族人，也是台灣基督教長老教會主權教會長老的朱清義，詢問他接任局長的意願。