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"You know, people make individual decisions and those decisions are respected," Coddington says. "And people are given the space to do the things that they need to do."
But Beggs says the administration should want to know more.
"I would want to know what the challenge was with 'good conscience and good faith,'" Beggs says. "Is there something going on in your life and you can't do it? Or is there something we're not doing? That's what I would imagine someone would do."
Her resignation didn't happen in a vacuum. City Hall has over 180 vacancies — 8 percent of the workforce — and the departments handling the mayor's priorities of housing and homelessness have been particularly hard hit.