A former employee said he repeatedly warned Pleasanton City Manager Gerry Beaudin and others about illegal, unsafe or negligent practices involving Pleasanton’s utilities systems – including one issue that resulted in another current lawsuit against the city.
But, Dan Repp claims instead of heeding the warnings, Beaudin fired him.
Repp alleges Beaudin terminated him, not for swearing in the workplace as was the initial reason Beaudin gave Repp, but because Beaudin wanted to silence a whistleblower to “cover up incompetence”.
According to Repp’s lawsuit, which was filed on Nov. 17, 2023, Repp claims Beaudin resented Repp reporting serious issues with Pleasanton’s water and sewer systems to Beaudin, other employees and outside agencies between mid-2022 and early 2023.
The document reads, “(Repp’s) performance of his job, with the assistance of his staff, uncovered illegal, unauthorized and unlicensed conditions that the City Manager and other interested employees and agents did not want made public and did not want to deal with.”
The Whistleblower Protection Act protects employees against retaliation for reporting suspected violations of state or federal laws, or local, state or federal rules and regulations. Violation of the WPA is one of Repp’s six legal claims; others include retaliation for disclosing working conditions, age discrimination, wrongful termination and emotional distress.
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