The board voted unanimously to take that action during their meeting Thursday.
Commissioners received a report from Knoxville attorney Benjamin Lauderback late last year that found Peterson unnecessarily berated but didnât threaten the job of a fire prevention officer, Roger Davis.
Peterson chastised Davis after he looped the State Fire Marshalâs Office in on a conversation about using the former Ashe Street Courthouse to house homeless people with COVID-19.
Lauderback did, however, hear from multiple people that Petersonâs management style âcan and does cross the border of profane and demeaning.â
Commissioners have said they intend to factor Lauderbackâs report into their annual evaluation of Peterson, which they put on hold in the fall while they waited for the attorneyâs findings.
A report completed by an outside investigator found City Manager Pete Peterson unnecessarily berated a Johnson City employee in an August email, but the city manager did not intend to
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Every year at this time, leaders from each of the Tri-Cities work together to develop a list of legislative priorities to recommend to local state legislators prior to the start of the next General Assembly. Usually, these priorities are in tune.
But Bristol has proposed joint support of legislation to give industrial development boards statewide the ability to provide incentives for single-family housing developments, a process Kingsport used recently in support of an $18 million residential development at Stonegate Plaza.
But while Sullivan Countyâs cities support it, Johnson City leaders do not.
Johnson City Manager Pete Peterson said Kingsport and Bristol are both energetically supportive of providing incentives for homebuilders because leaders in those communities feel they need an advantage to attract additional residential development. Peterson said Johnson City officials regularly hear that the demand for housing far exceeds the development communityâs capacity t
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