Jan.

10, 2000

Dear

Mr. Bryant:

Our

law firm has been retained to represent Sherri

Anderson. Based upon the information I have been

provided, it appears that the work environment in

the office that is supervised and managed by you

has become one that falls beneath the minimum

standards required under federal law. Ms.

Anderson reports that, upon her return from

vacation, she was called by one of her

subordinates and advised that you had directed

her to show up for work "in jeans so that

she could clean up the basement while the

subordinate would escort a special guest on a

tour of the Main Street district." This type

of demeaning directive would obviously have no

rational relationship to the job description of

Main Street director. It was an obvious attempt

to humiliate and retaliate against Ms. Anderson

is an effort to get her to resign her position.

Ms. Anderson will not resign her position and

intends to take action against you and, if need

be, the city of Fayetteville in order to protect

her right to a harassment free work environment.

Ms.

Anderson has documented the repeated invitations

made by you to join you at dinners, movies and

other purely social activities outside the

office. The fact that she has refused all of your

invitations to date has led to flagrant

retaliation such as reprimands, denial of pay and

other efforts to denigrate and otherwise limit

her ability to perform her job. While you may

attempt to deny that you have made advances

toward Ms. Anderson, there are a number of other

city employees who have come to Ms. Anderson and

expressed sympathy and understanding regarding

her situation. Moreover, your penchant for making

sexual advances to attractive female employees of

the city of Fayetteville has been documented by

several third parties, including Mandy Jones and

Anne Kirschner.

We

believe that, should we be put to the task of

actually assembling this quantum of evidence, it

will reflect a clear pattern of sexual harassment

and other sexually offensive conduct by you

during your tenure with the city. This includes

an incident of sexual harassment by you to a Main

Street merchant. We also have documentation that

you made the statement at a department head

meeting less than a year ago that you were

looking for a new "personnel director"

that was blonde, five feet seven inches tall,

slim good looking and when she stood against the

wall, her nose shouldn't touch before her body

did."

believe that a face to face meeting attended by

you and appropriate members of City Council to

hear Ms. Anderson's grievances is in order. We

need to determine whether or not there is a way

to resolve these issues before we move into the

judicial arena and it becomes public knowledge

due to the inevitable media coverage that will

ensue. I look forward to hearing from you or your

counsel at the earliest possible opportunity. It

is not Ms. Anderson's desire to harm the Main

Street program; however, she has reached the

point where she feels compelled to fight back

against the treatment she has suffered under your

direction.

A.

Lee Parks

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