The Anchorage Assembly chair has issued a subpoena to Mayor Dave Bronson in a final demand for documents on his hiring of the former Health Department director.
Mayor Dave Bronson spoke during the AEDC 2023 Economic Forecast Luncheon at the Dena'ina Center on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. to Mayor Dave Bronson in a final demand for documents on his hiring of the former Health Department director, Joe Gerace. If the mayor does not comply with the order, the Assembly’s attorneys will take the matter to court, Assembly leaders say.
In the subpoena, Chair Suzanne LaFrance called for Bronson to deliver to the Assembly by 5 p.m. on Thursday two documents — a September document “styled as an investigation” and January memorandum based on the September document, both regarding Joe Gerace’s hiring and tenure. resigned in August, just ahead of the publication of an Alaska Public Media and American Public MediaAssembly leaders have twice issued subpoenas for the documents — once for examination in a closed Assembly meeting and again to make them public — but Bronson officials have refused to publicly release them, saying they contain“We’re giving them every chance to do the right thing before we make a move to the courts, so when the courts see the records, they understand — we’ve tried everything,”...
That decision came after former Human Resources director Niki Tshibaka, who oversaw Gerace’s hiring, did not obey a subpoena from LaFrance. TshibakaInstead, then-acting Municipal Attorney Blair Christensen declined to send the documents on the Human Resources Department’s behalf in a to Assembly leaders. Christensen argued that the documents are confidential, protected by city code and that “releasing such documents would violate code and employees’ constitutionally protected privacy.”to Bronson on Tuesday, Assembly leaders said city code requires that Christensen’s decision be directly appealed to the mayor. They asked him to hand over the documents or provide a written decision on the appeal on Thursday.
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