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Johnson City has hired a Knoxville attorney to investigate an official complaint against City Manager Pete Peterson by a fire department employee.
Fire prevention officer Roger Davis says Peterson threatened his employment after he looped a state official in on a conversation about housing homeless people with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at the Ashe Street Courthouse.
In his complaint, which the Johnson City Press obtained through a public records request, Davis said Peterson sent emails âdirectly berating me and threatening my current and future employment with the city.â
âThis is a temporary use meeting an extraordinary circumstance created by the COVID pandemic,â Peterson said in an Aug. 15 email to Davis, Fire Chief James Stables and staff in the planning department. âThere are very limited options for housing homeless positive patients. We need to make this work with minimal changes, if any are needed. We DO NOT NEED TO GET THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL