The measure does not affect the public’s ability to recall a mayor, but adds a process for the Assembly or municipal board of ethics to begin removal proceedings for a “breach of the public trust.”
process for removing a mayorIt’s a move Mayor Dave Bronson has compared to a “coup” and that the Assembly had twice postponed voting on, following lengthy public testimony that largely scorned the measure and stretched over two previous meetings.. The crowded chambers erupted in boos, jeers and shouts of protest, and several people chanted “cowards” at Assembly members as they left the chambers for a break.
Assembly Vice Chair Chris Constant first proposed the ordinance in May, immediately eliciting vocal opposition from Bronson, who called it a “blatant attack on the office of the mayor.” Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson and Assembly member Jamie Allard talk during Tuesday night's Assembly meeting. , has said that while some of the mayor’s actions prompted him to draft it, he doesn’t plan to try to use it against Bronson over the mayor’s past actions. Constant has said he believes Bronson has ignored city code in a “substantive way” since the mayor took office last July.
Allard said that newly-elected Assembly member Daniel Volland should have a chance to hear the opinions of the public. Volland won a June special election for the recently-added 12th Assembly seat and was sworn into office Tuesday night, earlier in the meeting.ordinance “In this case, the Assembly is bringing forward the action. The assembly can vote on that action,” he said. And then, unlike state or federal, where there’s an elected official lieutenant governor, or vice president that would then take the place of that removed official, in this case, the Assembly would then put forward the replacement mayor.”
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