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Road Commission employee alleges threats after county appointment; resident urges review
Summary
A Waterford Township road commission official testified that employees fear retribution after the county appointed Jim Asaki to the Road Commission; the witness also criticized cancellation of an administrative building and said taxpayers lost $20 million.
Mary Gillis, director of central operations at the Waterford Township Road Commission, told the Finance and Administration Committee that her board has voted to cancel plans for a new administrative building but that a recent appointment to the Road Commission is causing fear among employees.
Gillis said the appointment of Jim Asaki to the Road Commission followed an incident at a work site in which she said Asaki “wanted to take him out to the woods to beat him up,” and that the behavior has left staff fearful of speaking out. “I can’t work under someone who treats people like that,” Gillis said. She asked the county to investigate the appointee’s conduct.
Gillis also criticized the decision to cancel the new administrative building, calling it “a waste of $20,000,000 of taxpayers’ money” and saying the cancellation should have occurred earlier. She urged the board to review the appointment and to consider concessions to reopen concessions at White Lake Oaks.
The committee did not take immediate formal action on Gillis’s request during the meeting. Her comments were heard during the public-comment period and entered the committee record.
The committee agenda included several appointment and personnel items later in the meeting, but the transcript does not record a direct committee response or follow-up assignment to investigate the allegations during this session.
