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Ethics panel: Bonser sent
‘discourteous’ email
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Blaske said that while the emails
from the constituent, Stephen Chipka,
were also discourteous, the board is only
tasked with judging Bonsers emails.
“We need to treat all citizens with
courtesy, irrespective of whether they are
courteous to us,” Blaske said.
Bonser said the email in ques
tion was one of more than 100 mes
sages from Chipka. She said she was
responding to an email in which he
threatened to try to have her medical
license revoked.
Two days earlier, during the June
10 City Council meeting, Bonser pub
licly announced she was filing ethics
complaints against
Lenny Felgin, a city
attorney, and against
city ethics Hearing
Officer Jennifer Ke
aton over the han
dling of the com
plaint against her.
Speaking to her
fellow council mem
bers and members
of the public during
the portion of the
meeting set aside for
council comments,
Bonser accused
Mayor Mike Davis
of orchestrating ef
forts against her.
“This process is
all for the amuse
ment of the may
or and his acolytes,”
Bonser said. “There’s
a loss of credibility
in this city ... The
members of the city
ethics board are being abused by the
mayor and council. It needs to stop.”
Davis declined to comment on
Bonser s claims, as did Felgin.
Bonser claimed at the council
meeting that the ethics board had not
allowed her to sufficiently present her
defense to the charges against her by
Chipka. “They’ve not even providing
[all] my evidence to the Board of Eth
ics,” Bonser said.
After the ethics board decision, Bon
ser said she was confused by the rul
ing. She said she felt it would “open up
a whole new can of worms for Dun-
woody.”
“If courtesy is now the new standard,
then I would like to be called ‘Dr. Bons
er’ in our council meetings, and if coun
cil members don’t do that, I guess that’s
not just discourteous, that’s disrespect
ful,” said Bonser, who is a dentist.
“[Chipka] accused me of being
threatening and abusive in one email,
and I got charged for being ‘discourte
ous’ in another email he didn’t com
plain about. That doesn’t make sense.”
The recommendation for a repri
mand was one of several Keaton pre
sented to the ethics board to consider.
Alternative suggestions were for
Bonser to be encouraged to write a let
ter of apology to Chipka, that she takes
an educational course about handling
threatening situa
tions, and that her
city email privileges
be revoked. The eth
ics board is an ad
visory board which
makes recommenda
tions to the council.
Dunwoody city
officials have been
fighting over the
city’s ethics rules for
years.
Earlier this year,
the council rewrote
the city’s ethics pro
cedures after com
plaints by Bonser and
Davis took months
to decide under the
city’s original rules.
Davis accused
Bonser of improper
ly disclosing infor
mation from a closed
meeting about the
city redevelopment
project known as Project Renaissance.
Bonser accused other council members
of holding improper closed meetings.
Both complaints eventually were dis
missed.
“This is all about a game they’re play
ing where they are trying to have me
have the first ethical charge stick in the
city of Dunwoody,” Bonser said after the
June 10 meeting.
“The more they do this, the more
they get caught in their own traps. I’m
tired of the games. It’s too much. All I
want is for everything to be as fair as
possible. The field needs to be level. The
ethics ordinance is not supposed to be a
‘gotcha.’”
“There’s a loss of
credibility in this city ....
The members of the city
ethics board are being
abused by the mayor and
council. It needs to stop.”
- ADRIAN BONSER
Dunwoody Government Calendar
The Dunwoody City Council usually meets the second and fourth
Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Dunwoody City Hall located at 41
Perimeter Center East Suite No. 103.
For a complete and up to date schedule of Dunwoody City meetings,
visit http://www.dunwoodyga.gov/Residents/Calendar.aspx
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