Fayetteville

Main Street director Sherri Anderson said this

week she is not satisfied with the city's

handling of her sexual harassment and retaliation

complaint against former city manager Michael

Bryant.

"I

feel that the city has not responded as well as

it should have," said Anderson. "They

have left me entirely unprotected.

Anderson

wants the city to pay her legal bills and to

reinstate three days of pay that she was docked

following the Christmas holidays.

And

she wants city officials to make public

statements of support, she said. "I am

shocked that I would receive no more support than

that," Anderson told The Citizen Monday,

adding that she had expected council members to

state publicly that they will not tolerate sexual

harassment.

Harassment

has been alleged but not proved, according to

city officials.

City

Council Feb. 16 approved a separation agreement

allowing Bryant to resign and ending its

month-long investigation into allegations that

Bryant had sexually harassed two female employees

and retaliated against Anderson when she declined

invitations to go out socially.

Anderson

was docked three days' pay when she returned to

work three days later than expected after New

Year's Day, according to sources, but she said

Monday that Bryant had verbally approved the

extra days as vacation time.

When

she returned to work to find that she was being

disciplined, "I was shocked," said

Anderson.

When

Anderson came to work the following Monday, she

laid a letter on Bryant's desk from her lawyer,

A. Lee Parks, threatening legal action.

City

officials also received a "To Whom it May

Concern" letter from accounting clerk Amanda

Jones, stating that Bryant also had sexually

harassed her. Both letters, along with Bryant's

statement, are printed in The Citizen's opinion

section today.

In

response to open records requests from The

Citizen and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the

city has released copies of the letters from

Jones and Anderson, along with Bryant's personnel

file and a copy of the separation agreement with

Bryant.

But

city attorney David Winkle has thus far refused

to release any records obtained in the

investigation by lawyer Greg Futch, or to answer

questions about their existence.

Anderson

said Monday that Futch interviewed several

witnesses at City Hall and took notes.

The

Citizen has filed suit seeking all records

connected with the investigation, and alleging

that the City Council illegally received

information in the case during an executive

session Jan. 12 before placing Bryant on

administrative leave.

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