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Among the most severe charges included in <br />Johnston's resolution was an assertion that DeLapp could <br />have prevented a "whistleblower" wrongful termination <br />lawsuit by former finance director Abby Grenfell, had <br />DeLapp apprised the City Council of certain allegations of <br />employee impropriety that Grenfell had reported to him <br />long before she reported them to the city's prosecuting <br />attorney, Kevin Shoeberg. In May, the city settled <br />Grenfell's lawsuit for $40,000 and other considerations. <br />And the city could be liable in a $500,000- to $1- <br />million lawsuit, Johnston has said, by former city <br />administrator Mary Kueffner, who was suspended on the <br />same day Grenfell was fired, and whose 19-and-a-half-year <br />service to the city officially ended when the council <br />allowed her administrative leave to expire on May 6. <br />Although Kueffner did not directly threaten legal <br />action at the council's May 6 meeting, she has said in the <br />past that an attorney has advised her that she may have <br />grounds for a lawsuit for age discrimination, gender <br />discrimination, slander, breach of contract and failure to <br />follow open -meeting laws. <br />Also included in the resolution Johnston will request <br />that the council consider tonight, are claims that DeLapp <br />has: been "disruptive" at council meetings; "made verbal, <br />personal attacks on fellow council members;" "treated <br />residents and applicants disrespectfully;" used his position <br />on the council to "personally criticize city employees <br />contrary to the best interest of the city...." <br />Responding to Johnston's proposed resolution on <br />Tuesday, prior to the council's meeting, DeLapp drafted a <br />