Recently-fired Anchorage Municipal Manager Amy Demboski accused Mayor Dave Bronson of breaking city and state laws, creating a hostile work environment and other unethical behavior in a letter released Wednesday.
Recently-fired Anchorage Municipal Manager Amy Demboski is accusing Mayor Dave Bronson of breaking city and state laws, creating a hostile work environment and other unethical behavior in a scathing letter released Wednesday.Theto city leaders says the firing was retaliatory and unlawful.
The letter also accuses Bronson of firing a city employee who refused to “swing” a contract to a close associate’s friend, unlawfully turning off theand directing work on the proposed East Anchorage shelter without Assembly approval. Kendall asserted in the letter that Bronson’s actions related to unsanctioned work on the shelter likely make the city liable for between $3.9 and $4.9 million.
for “breaching the public trust.” The ordinance was initially vetoed by Bronson, but the Assembly overrode him. Constant, the original author of the ordinance, stopped short of saying whether the allegations brought forward in the letter amount to removable offenses, but he says he’s heard from community members who believe they do.
Bronson is also accused in the letter of illegally delegating contracting authority to the city’s purchasing director, Rachelle Alger, without the approval of the Department of Law. That authority would normally fall under the municipal manager.
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