Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
| 5th worker
resigns in PTC investigation
By JOHN MUNFORD A fifth employee of Peachtree City’s Public Works Department has resigned in the wake of a criminal investigation into missing equipment and money. Curtis Benson, who was the support services manager, resigned effective Friday with a brief letter to city officials. Last week, four others in the public works department resigned as city officials scrambled to rebuild the department with interim leadership while the criminal probe continues to unfold. Department Director Bobby Thompson, superintendent Chris Bowden, shop foreman Cameron Bolden and employee Paul M. Justus also resigned last week. Randy Gaddo, the city’s director of leisure services, has also taken on duties as director of the public works department. Jim Miller, the director of the Kedron Fieldhouse, has been reassigned to the public works department as superintendent. The investigation, spearheaded by the city’s police department, began with two relatively minor reports relating to the public works department, according to Police Chief James Murray. Detectives are looking back through five years of purchase orders, matching them up to the employee who ordered the equipment. Records from auto parts dealers and a paving company have also been subpoenaed by officers. In his resignation letter, Thompson apparently took much of the blame for improprieties that occurred at the public works department. “I am very ashamed of my actions,” Thompson wrote. “But I have to accept this is the way it is. I must pay for what I’ve done. “I’m not a bad person, but I’ve done a bad thing. I’ve asked my family to forgive me, and God, but I know the city can’t,” Thompson said in his resignation letter.
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