Directors and/or supervisors have left this city for the same reasons. It was
said to him by a gentleman that had almost 30 years of experience here
that he left before his employment future was ruined because he received
information from a fellow employee that you were going to use his current
supervisor or Department Director to have him terminated. A second
individual told him that he left here. He stated a very good individual by the
way. He stated that Mayor Tuerk asked him to do some things that he felt
that were against his integrity and if did not leave, you probably would have
fired him. He stated that as you know about 10 days ago an article
appeared on Lehigh Valley News about the mayor firing one of the
individuals in the HR office. Well, let's be factual because there were three
fired. This individual was an employee in the HR department and part of
your job when you are in the HR department is to filter complaints. Part of
that individuals job was to filter complaints. People came to her with issues
whether it was workplace harassment, racism, discrimination or whatever.
She took upon herself to do her job and as a result she ended up with a
target on her back. As a result she eventually lost her job. As you know
sometime this past summer the city hired an HR Director and did an
outside study to get him. The city spent about $30,000. A short time after
he was here, he was terminated. if you recall on the very first night that he
spoke to the press, he stated that he was terminated because he refused
(he is not going to name names because he does not want to play that
game). He stated that he was terminated because he refused to fire that
employee which is the same employee that was terminated. That
employee also filed an EEOC Complaint. If you know anything about
EEOC Complaints, one of the first things that you cannot do is to harass,
intimidate, or terminate without just cause. He stated to the Mayor that is
why I called you out as far as this being retaliatory. When you file an
EEOC Complaint, they receive the complaint. They look at it and evaluate
it, they notify you within 10 days whether or not if it is justification about the
complaint and they also notifies the employer. She was notified the
Thursday before Thanksgiving and now he had an opportunity of how many
months to terminate her. She was fired on Monday. If that does not show
retaliation, he does not know what does. He stated to Mayor Tuerk that is
why he called him out. He stated that the Mayor sent him a text on
Thanksgiving thanking him for caring and having compassion for the
citizens. He thanked the Mayor and stated that he does and will continue.
The Budget, and stated to the Mayor that last year you sat here and said
you were a guru. Well, how can you be a guru when you come before
Council for a 6.9 percent Budget increase and 23 new positions. You
stated that he cannot personal explain that. He stated that he knows he
tried and then when that failed you came back at us asking for a two
percent raise. Council said that they were not going to do that. The
majority of Council voted against that. He stated then he started with
threats. Why the treats? He stated that they can work things out if they talk
they can work things out. There is no communication. He asked his
colleagues what's the magic number for people to leave, Department
Directors or whatever. People to leave, people to be terminated, people to