Paul Page expected to resign as city's director of general services
02.10.11
Paul Page, the city's director of general services, likely will resign this week in the fallout over allegations of sexual harassment made by two women employees.
"He's expressed a desire to me to get out of the shooting gallery, which I can understand," said Mayor Ron Littlefield, who hired Page in 2005 and later created a high-paying position for him.
Page has been under fire since early September, after a finding by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Page had harassed an employee in October 2008 and that the city had retaliated against her after she filed a complaint. The letter stated that EEOC could go to court if the city didn't resolve the matter.
After a second woman filed a sexual harassment claim against Page in November 2008, he was disciplined with five unpaid days off.
Page has denied wrongdoing.
But personnel records and interviews show that a sexual harassment allegation figured in his termination from a previous job. And altogether, records show, Page has been fired from at least four government jobs in his 39-year government career.
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press
