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Council approves budget amendment amid public allegations of retaliation against deputy personnel director
Summary
Eastpointe City Council approved a year-end budget amendment that includes changes affecting an HR position after the deputy personnel director publicly alleged discriminatory actions and a retaliatory $25,000 pay cut by the interim city manager. The amendment passed 4–1.
Eastpointe City Council approved budget amendment BA26JO1 at its Sept. 2 regular meeting after a heated public comment period in which the city’s deputy personnel director accused the interim city manager of discriminatory actions and retaliation.
The vote to adopt the fiscal year-end amendment was 4–1, with Councilmember Baker the lone dissent. The amendment consolidates year-end project carryovers and includes several personnel and salary-account adjustments.
Deputy Personnel Director Vicky Brooks told the council she issued a memo to the mayor and mayor pro tem on Aug. 27 detailing “descriptive examples of discriminatory actions the interim city manager has taken” and alleged violations of the Civil Rights Act, Eastpointe personnel rules and regulations, the civil…
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