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*Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms instructed her cabinet members on Monday to turn in their resignations by the end of the day.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Bottoms has also told her cabinet — a group that includes 35 top city officials including rappers T.I. and Killer Mike — that she will decide by the end of the week whose resignations she will accept and whose she will decline.
After Bottoms won a narrow victory in the Dec. 5 runoff against Mary Norwood, she informed all of former Mayor Kasim Reed’s staff members that they could remain on the job for roughly 90 days while she got to know them better.
That period is now over.
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Bottoms scheduled a press conference for Tuesday afternoon where she will “make a major announcement on transparency in Atlanta’s government.”
“Consistent with what I said upon taking office in January, I have taken the first 100 days to evaluate the leadership of my Administration. There are many talented leaders within the City, and I look forward to continuing to work towards creating the team that best reflects alignment with the goals and opportunities we look to pursue over the next four years,” she said.
The call for resignations comes after a hit-piece published by the AJC.com detailed how Bottoms didn’t deliver on promises she made during her 2017 campaign to wipe out corruption in City Hall.
Within hours after former city manager Rev. Mitzi Bickers was indicted on charges of bribery, money laundering, and wire fraud, the AJC.com attempted to reach out to Bottoms for an interview. But she refused to return any of the AJC’s phone calls.
Instead, Bottoms responded to written questions submitted to her office by an AJC reporter, and her answers “revealed that she has walked back at least 3 of the points in a 10-point plan she developed during her campaign to address ethics violations within the mayor’s office.”
“She apparently walked back her plan to appoint an outside independent auditor to look over the city of Atlanta’s bidding process. An independent auditor might have explained how Rev. Mitzi Bickers managed to steer a $5.5 million snow removal contract to a contractor in 2014 — a year after she left city employment.”
According to the AJC, “Bottoms has not appointed an independent auditor, but instead appears to be relying on the city’s internal auditor.”
Is Bottoms protecting Reed by not appointing the independent auditor?
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