Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Bonser's attorney says they could seek depositions of city council members and Mayor Mike Davis in the event of a hearing.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Counwilwoman Adrian Bonser is calling for the dismissal of the ethics complaint against her, and says she might seek depositions from members of the city council and a city development partner to defend herself if an ethics hearing moves forward. Bonser is alleged to have leaked information about the development of what is now know as "Project Rennaisance" a 35-acre redevelopment planned for Georgetown with John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods. "While dismissal of the complaint is clearly warranted at this time, if the board precedes to a hearing, Dr. Bonser requests the opportunity to conduct discovery beforehand," according to a response filed with the city by her attorney. "She would like to send a request for production of documents to…
Friday, July 13, 2012
The city's position is that Councilwoman Adrian Bonser's response can be held private under a part of the state's Open Records Act.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Councilwoman Adrian Bonser on Friday filed a response to an ethics complaint against her in the required time frame. Officials with the city of Dunwoody, however, said they will not release the response, citing an exception to the state's Open Records Act. Specifically, the section of the state's Open Records Act that the city cites says that "records consisting of the material obtained in investigations against public officers" is exempt from inspection by the public for a period of time. City officials said that the records would be available 10 days after the "conclusion" or "termination" of the city ethics investigation, which is now in front of the city's ethics board. The move seems to be a change of course. City officials recently …
Councilman John Heneghan talks to constituents in his blog about a counter claim that names him and the rest of the council filed by Councilwoman Adrian Bonser.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Councilman John Heneghan is speaking out about a counter ethics claim against him and fellow council members filed by Adrian Bonser on his popular blog, Heneghan's Dunwoody Blog. Heneghan, in a post titled "City of Dunwoody, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" says that he doesn't think that Bonser's counter claim is an actual city ethics violation, as the council is accused of calling a closed session when it wasn't warranted by Georgia's open meeting law. He said the appropriate venue for the claim could be the state through the Attorney General's office. Heneghan writes that he wasn't at the Feb. 3 meeting that is the subject of the complaint against him, and also questions whether the council members would be individually responsible for …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
A number of procedural issues need to be handled before a complaint against Councilwoman Adrian Bonser or her counter-complaint against city council members could be heard.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The ethics board was scheduled Tuesday to discuss a complaint that Councilwoman Adrian Bonser leaked confidential information from city executive sessions. The board was also set to discuss a counter complaint from Bonser that the rest of the city council members called an unauthorized executive session from which she is alleged to have leaked information from. It discussed neither. The ethics board put the brakes on handling the substantive parts of the complaints, while they began to set up the process for how they could eventually be heard. First, the board will need to adopt specific bylaws for the board to follow. The board had requested a set of rules in 2010, but the document was never finalized by then-city attorney Brian Anderson…
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Ethics Board will also discuss counter complaint filed by Councilwoman Adrian Bonser against the council, city manager, and the former city attorney.
The city's ethics board will convene Tuesday to discuss the complaint that Councilwoman Adrian Bonser leaked information from city executive sessions. The ethics board is scheduled to first vote on whether to appoint Richard Carothers, an attorney the city's acting city attorney has recommended to be independent counsel for the ethics board. The ethics board is also scheduled to consider a complaint by Bonser against the members of the city council and City Manager Warren Hutmacher that was filed after the complaint against her. She says in her complaint that the council met outside the state's open meeting law when they got together to sign the complaint against her. She also claims that the executive session in which she is alleged to …
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Councilwoman Adrian Bonser asks independent attorney and city ethics board members to recuse themselves in a complaint alleging she leaked confidential city information. "Closing the books on this matter without further time and expense" is the right thin
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Councilwoman Adrian Bonser is asking the city's newly hired independent legal counsel and members of the city's ethics board to recuse themselves in a case alleging that she leaked confidential city information. The four-page letter - written by an attorney representing Bonser - says that outside attorney Richard Carothers was hired to protect the members of the city council who made the ethics complaint against Bonser. The complaint, signed by every member of the city council except Bonser, alleges she talked outside of executive session about "Project Renaissance," a land redevelopment deal in Georgetown. The letter also claims that the Carothers hire was tainted by the involvement of City Manager Warren Hutmacher, who Bonser filed a …
Monday, July 2, 2012
The city's attorney says the complaint was filed properly and has "factual allegations."
Dunwoody's city attorney's office has ruled the ethics complaint filed in May against Councilwoman Adrian Bonser is valid, clearing the way for the complaint to be heard by the city's ethics board. All members of the city council signed the complaint against Bonser. It alleges she leaked confidential information about the city's "Project Renaissance" land redevelopment. The attorney's office had 30 days from when the complaint was filed May 29 to offer an analysis on its merits. Cecil McLendon, in his role as acting city attorney, filed it with the city clerk's office Friday afternoon before the deadline. The analysis outlines the standard for sending the complaint to the city's ethics board, but McLendon said he was not weighing in on the…
jimmie
10:05 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012
I did Mr...and it shouldn't have been released as it was an investigatory report that they won;t even post a response too before the ethics complaint was filed. Just watch the facts unfold. Cheers. Moneys on Dr. Bonser more ›