Mayor Dave Bronson announced today that he has accepted Judy Eledge's resignation, hours before Assembly members were set to vote on a resolution calling for her to step down.
Judy Eledge, then acting library director, at a special Anchorage Assembly meeting on Oct. 14, 2021. Mayor Dave Bronson announced Eledge’s departure in a brief statement on Tuesday, saying her last day will be May 15.recommending that the mayor ask for and accept her resignation.
The resolution was sponsored by Assembly members Kameron Perez-Verdia and Chris Constant. They laid out three pages of reasons why Eledge should step down, including her racist comments toward Alaska Natives caught on tape, workplace complaints for discrimination, harassment and bullying, and the ongoing legal and financial liability of keeping her employed. The resolution also heavily cites
about Eledge’s inflammatory private and public comments, which also targeted LGBTQ+ legal protections.She was initially Bronson’s pick for library director, despite not having a degree in library science — a requirement for the position. She, with the mayor’s spokesman saying she did not want to go through “what has been an unfair disparaging” of the mayor’s nominees. Bronson later named her deputy director of the library, a position that doesn’t require Assembly approval.
Bronson’s two-sentence statement Tuesday did not provide comment on Eledge’s resignation outside of announcing her last day.
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