Demboski has engaged attorney Scott Kendall of the firm Cashion, Gilmore & Lindemuth to resolve the matter.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Through a demand letter sent from her lawyer to Mayor Dave Bronson and Acting Municipal Attorney Blair Christiansen, former Anchorage Municipal Manager Amy Demboski states that her firing by Bronson was “retaliatory and unlawful.”
The letter makes further allegations that Bronson’s behavior following the termination of Demboski constitutes slander, and states that its delivery will “provide an opportunity to resolve this matter short of extensive discovery and costly litigation.”
Demboski has engaged attorney Scott Kendall of the firm Cashion, Gilmore & Lindemuth to resolve the matter.
The letter alleges that following the termination of Demboski’s employment with the Municipality of Anchorage on Dec. 19, Mayor Bronson “instructed executive staff to leak information to the press in a belated attempt to somehow tie Ms. Demboski’s termination to an incident in which she used vulgar language regarding another Municipal employee.”
The use of foul language, the letter purports, was not an issue that garnered disciplinary actions prior to Demboski’s termination.
The letter also refers to another communique — this one an email from Demboski to Bronson sent on Dec. 14 — in which Demboski detailed the mayor’s use of “unlawful and unethical activities using municipal resources.”
According to Demboski and Kendall, that email was the impetus...
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