What business would be allowed to operate like this? What business would look past these significant failures in leadership and keep the chief executive? None.
Suzanne LaFrance walks the room to greet attendees before the start of the lunchtime event. The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce hosted a runoff debate between mayoral candidates Dave Bronson and Suzanne LaFrance at the Petroleum Club of Anchorage on April 29, 2024.
As former municipal employees, we write to share that this is not how our city was run in any administration prior to Dave Bronson’s and why we must make a change on May 14. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore, and you don’t have to take our word for it. The mayor’s own chief human resources officer cited “an increasingly toxic, hostile and demoralizing work environment” when he resigned last year. That’s just one of many people who have resigned during Dave Bronson’s term as mayor.
And due to the rates of staff turnover under Mayor Bronson, the expensive outside consultants he hired to perform these basic accounting functions now report that receipts and records are missing.
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