Jessie Stensland reports:
Members of the Oak Harbor City Council are finally going to discuss next week whether to strip the city’s first female mayor pro tem of the position over an alleged threat.
A review of the pro tem position is set for the Aug. 3 council meeting that may have some verbal fireworks because of the politically charged nature of the issue.
Mayor pro tem Beth Munns got into hot water with city leaders in June when she told City Administrator Blaine Oborn that neither he nor Human Resources Director Emma House should go to the funeral of a city staff member or they “would be slapped and hit,” according to a report by Oak Harbor Police Chief Kevin Dresker.
They Said It
Mayor Bob Severns wrote in a June 15 email to Munns that council members had asked him if he would support a motion to name someone else as mayor pro tem. He wrote that he would.
Councilmember Dan Evans recently asked council to approve a third-party investigation of the staff complaints. The council didn’t pass his motion, but he wrote in an email that he plans to bring it back.
