Reviewers and Cheyenne attorneys Michael O'Donnell and Donna Murray pointed out where the city council violated laws and issued recommendations to better increase transparency, trust, and civility in city government.
Eric Hanson will serve out the remainder of former mayor Louise Carter-King's term after she resigned last month due to a series of text messages being leaked by a former city administrator in which she used disparaging language when discussing those in both public and private life.
The review is being undertaken by the City of Cheyenne and is intended as a transparency measure and to regain any trust that was lost in Gillette city government. It was commissioned a series of text messages were leaked leading to the resignation of former mayor Louise Carter-King earlier this month.
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) The mayor of Wyoming's third-largest city has resigned after text messages she sent with off-color and denigrating remarks became public. Gillette Mayor Louise Carter-King announced her resignation Thursday, two days after apologizing for the texts about City Council members and other local officials, the Gillette News-Record reported.