The finance chief of Concord, Massachusetts, has been terminated from his job weeks after being placed on leave and filing a whistleblower notice with the town.
Anthony Ansaldi, on Monday, was officially given a “notice of termination,” local news outlet The Concord Bridge reported this week. Reasons for his termination were not immediately clear as of Wednesday; city representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
But, in an August letter to Town Manager Kerry Lafleur prior to termination, Ansaldi said he was being blamed for unauthorized execution of contracts, deficiencies in budget preparation and accuracy, problems with conversion to a new payroll system and other management failures. He described the town’s current payroll system as “a complete disaster and embarrassment prior to my arrival.”
Ansaldi went on to say the town’s problems with him are not due to “a performance issue” but instead stem from a “political issue.”
“There are many factors that contribute to inefficiencies, poor execution and failed implementations, but any remedies cannot be successful without support from the leader at the top, nor can that series of faulty decisions be blamed on a single person who does not have the authority to make the critical decisions necessary,” Ansaldi wrote in the letter obtained by CFO.com.
Ansaldi has been on paid leave since June. Then, in July, he filed a whistleblower notice with the town, alleging he had uncovered “many deficiencies and...
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